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Wife of ORU Pres Denies Lurid Behavior
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akornfeld
Bobby Ross Jr. Religion News Service Oklahoma City – The wife of Oral Roberts University’s president denied charges that she spent the night with an underage male and engaged in other lurid behavior with a “male 16-year-old friend,” as alleged in a recent lawsuit. Lindsay Roberts, whose husband, Richard Roberts, is president of the charismatic…
Alternative Bar Mitzvahs for Some Young Jews
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akornfeld
By Joanna Corman Religion News Service Hannah Nemer’s bat mitzvah was still a year away, but already she was feeling reluctant about such a big production. Based on other Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies she had attended, she worried the ritual would be more an empty performance rather than the spiritual transformation she desired. But when her…
McCain Says He Prays No War with Iran
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akornfeld
Associated Press Washington – Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday he prays every night the United States doesn’t go to war with Iran, and he blamed Russia and China for standing in the way of a diplomatic solution. “I don’t think it’s inevitable that we’re in a conflict with Iran,” McCain said in an…
Ottawa Anglicans Approve Same-Sex Blessings
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By Ron Csillag Religion News Service TORONTO (RNS) The Ottawa diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada has approved same-sex marriage blessings in a move sure to inflame tensions in the worldwide Anglican Communion in the debate over gay rights. Voting Saturday (Oct. 13) by a margin of 177 to 97, delegates to the diocese’s…
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