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Turner, Churches Work to Fight Malaria
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Associated Press – April 1, 2008 NEW YORK – Ted Turner formed a $200 million partnership Tuesday with Lutherans and Methodists to fight malaria, apologizing for his past criticism of religion as he announced the effort. Turner, 69, said he had only made a few disparaging comments a long time ago and that he is…
Court Agrees to Take Religious Group’s Free Speech Case
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Associated Press – March 31, 2008 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a free speech case in which a church wants to place a religious monument in a park. Officials in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, asked the court to step into the lawsuit brought by the religious group known as Summum, saying…
MLK’s Generation of Pastors Makes Way for New Vision
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By Greg Garrison and Val Walton 2008 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — They were pastors and civil rights leaders who broke the back of unjust segregation laws and set in motion the transformation of America into a more racially tolerant nation. Forty years after the violent death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…
Report on John Paul II Sainthood Ready
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Associated Press – March 31, 2008 VATICAN CITY – The church official spearheading the cause to make Pope John Paul II a saint said Monday he has finished a roughly 2,000-page draft of a report supporting the late pontiff’s canonization. Two days before the Vatican marks the third anniversary of John Paul’s death, Monsignor Slawomir…
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