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Associated Press – February 13, 2008 COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Leading Danish newspapers reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a gesture of solidarity Wednesday after police revealed a plot to kill the creator of the caricature that sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world. Danish Muslims said they would seek to avoid a repeat of…

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) – February 11, 2008 Paris (dpa) – More than 50,000 Catholic pilgrims took part in a Mass on Monday at the Catholic shrine in the southern French city of Lourdes to celebrated the 150th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a 14-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous. The Mass…

Chicago Tribune – February 12, 2008 (MCT) WICHITA, Kan. – The latest skirmish in the abortion wars is being fought, not on the sidewalk outside a clinic, but in the ornate jury room of a 19th Century courthouse. Kansas is one of a handful of states that allow citizen-initiated grand juries to investigate possible crimes.…

By Rachel Pomerance 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The United Methodist Church is poised to become the next U.S. church to consider divesting from Israel, a topic so controversial that it prompted the Presbyterian Church (USA) to backpedal on its own divestment program two years ago. At its quadrennial General Conference this April in Fort…
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