Associated Press – February 7, 2008 WASHINGTON – Republican Mitt Romney, in a speech Thursday ending his presidential candidacy, said Europe faces “demographic disaster” because of moral and religious failings, and warned that United States should not become “the France of the 21st century.” Romney also placed Russian President Vladimir Putin, alongside the United States’…

Associated Press – February 6, 2008 THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a guru to the Beatles who introduced the West to transcendental meditation, died Tuesday at his home in the Dutch town of Vlodrop, a spokesman said. He was thought to be 91 years old. “He died peacefully at about 7 p.m.,” said…

By Francis X. Rocca 2008 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY — With his decision last July to liberalize use of the Old Latin Mass, Pope Benedict XVI sought to appease traditionalists disaffected by recent changes to Catholic worship. But in making it easier for priests to celebrate the so-called Tridentine Rite, Benedict also resurrected a…

By Adelle M. Banks 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON — The day after Super Tuesday, when so much was supposed to become so clear, evangelicals are as divided — and sought after — as they were the day before. “There was this expectation, I think, over the course of the last year, that evangelicals —…

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