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By DANIEL BURKE and RICHARD ALLEN c. 2010 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops on Thursday (July 15) defended the Vatican’s decision to include the ordination of women with the sexual abuse of children in a long-awaited revision of the church’s most serious crimes. The new rules, which bring together years worth of…

NAIROBI (RNS/ENInews) A top church leader in Uganda, Anglican Archbishop Henry Luke Orombi, has appealed for calm after the “hideous crime” of a terrorist bombing at a World Cup watch party in Kampala that left more than 70 dead. “I call upon each one of us to desist from anger and revenge. This will only…

WASHINGTON (RNS) Conservative groups blasted a federal court ruling that overturned a policy of the Federal Communications Commission intended to crack down on unscripted curse words and wardrobe malfunctions. Spurred on by celebrity slip-ups from Bono and Cher, the 2004 FCC policy fined television networks that did not censor indecency, however spontaneous. Broadcasting giants like…

By TIM TOWNSEND c. 2010 St. Louis Post-Dispatch HOUSTON (RNS) Delegates of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on Tuesday (July 13) elected the denomination’s director of disaster response as president, a candidate backed by its more conservative members. The Rev. Matthew Harrison received 54 percent of the vote for the three-year term, defeating three-term incumbent the…
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