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Bloomberg Defends Obama Before Jewish Audience
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Associated Press – June 20, 2008 NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged Jewish voters to denounce the whisper campaign that for months has pushed the false rumor that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. Bloomberg warned a Jewish group in Boca Raton, Fla., on Friday that the attempt to portray Obama…
Conservative Anglicans Meet to Plot Strategy
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Amy Hybels and Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) Conservative Anglicans on Thursday (June 19) said there is “no longer any hope for a unified” Anglican Communion just weeks before a crucial summit of Anglican bishops in England. Traditionalist Anglicans were meeting here ahead of the June 22-29 Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)…
‘Faith Without Works’ Emerges as Democrats’ Favorite Bible Verse
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By Benedicta Cipolla c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) When Sen. Barack Obama turns to talking about faith on the campaign trail, he sometimes invokes the New Testament book of James and its admonition that “faith without works is dead.” As she competed for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton frequently did the same…
Another Faith-Healing Death Brings More Scrutiny on Church
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By Rick Bella c. 2008 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. — The painful and apparently preventable faith-healing death of a 16-year-old boy on Tuesday (June 17) brings the secretive Followers of Christ church back under legal scrutiny, just four months after the boy’s infant niece died in similar circumstances. But unlike the girl’s death, which…
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