Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News – February 21, 2008 Calling climate change “the civil rights movement of the 21st century,” evangelical Christian leaders gathered at a daylong environmental conference in Longwood, Fla., Thursday. Global warming is “an offense against God,” added the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the 30-million member National Association of Evangelicals, at…

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) For the second time in two months, Pope Benedict XVI urged leaders of the Catholic Church’s largest religious order to affirm their commitment to orthodoxy in several controversial areas, including religious pluralism and human sexuality. Benedict made his remarks on Thursday (February 21) at a…

By Paul Walsh Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News After churches in Minnesota and elsewhere in the nation were warned by the NFL about showing the Super Bowl telecast to gatherings, the league has relented and will allow religious organizations to display the telecast under certain circumstances, a U.S. senator said. The league’s reversal comes after it…

Associated Press New York – The Anti-Defamation League was “deeply troubled” by the prayer. Conservative Jewish rabbis said they were “dismayed and deeply disturbed” by its language. But some veteran interfaith leaders – Jewish and Roman Catholic – say there’s no evidence that a revised Good Friday liturgy approved this month by Pope Benedict XVI…

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