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By Matthew Streib c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON — Religious anti-abortion groups are angry over proposed changes in the Bush administration’s global AIDS relief program, which has reportedly provided lifesaving medicine to 1.4 million people worldwide. “The way the bill’s been reworked, it would steer money intended to help reduce HIV/AIDS into the coffers…

Associated Press – February 14, 2008 ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Evangelist Billy Graham was recovering Thursday from a surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain, a family spokesman said. The 89-year-old Southern Baptist minister was expected to spend some of the day walking the halls of Asheville’s Mission Hospital and to…

Associated Press – February 13, 2008 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia – the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during 1917 apparitions in Fatima – on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday. The customary waiting period before beginning the process…

By Menachem Wecker c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Like many religious institutions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) has commissioned countless works of art to educate believers and non-believers about its history and doctrines. Now, like other churches, Mormons are engaged in a low-simmer dispute with artists over how the…
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