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If the church can't accept that women and men are equally made in God's image, what's the point in having women ordained?On Monday the House of Bishops will meet to discuss whether to try to "tweak" the delicately balanced compromise legislation to allow women to be...(more)
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DETROIT (AP) -- Popular Detroit pastor and gospel singer Marvin Winans was assaulted and carjacked Wednesday afternoon at a gas station on the city's west side....
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week, a top Vatican official told Reuters on Wednesday. The once influential religious order, still...(more)
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A survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors finds Mother's Day ranks right after Easter and Christmas in peak church attendance.
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By excluding the non-religious and secular, the Religion & Society programme shows how such studies must changeIf the greatest achievement of a major study of religion is to bring the curtain down on purely religious research, it really will have done a valuable service.This month the...(more)
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The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled Legion of Christ religious order for alleged sexual abuse of minors.
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An Arizona high school forfeited a shot at a state baseball championship rather than compete against an opponent that had a 15-year-old girl on its team, an official from the rival school said.
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Members of the Vatican's bioethics advisory panel have called for its board to resign after scientists who don't support core church teaching on issues like birth control and infertility were featured at its annual conference.
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Cornish schools won't be 'teaching witchcraft and druidry', less still black mass – religious education doesn't equal indoctrinationLast month it was suggested that Cornish schools should study paganism in religious education. This modest proposal provoked a splenetic and histrionic reaction from Cristina Odone, in the Daily...(more)
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Since Ilia II began ceremonies in 2008, he has gained almost 11,000 godchildren.The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox church has baptised hundreds of babies in a Tbilisi cathedral and has been credited with raising the birth rate.Patriarch Ilia II has promised to become the godfather of...(more)
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Pressure increases on Irish Catholic primate over role in secret child abuse inquiry with call to step down from deputy PMThe embattled Irish Catholic primate, Seán Brady, has faced further calls for his resignation from Ireland's foreign minister and the editor of the influential Irish Catholic...(more)
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A new generation of fearless Muslim women are actively starting to challenge inequalities that have faced them for generationsAnyone who has worked in British Muslim communities will tell you the very notion of women's rights is still considered a taboo subject. Like many women who have...(more)
