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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed lawsuits Thursday (Feb. 14) challenging a judge’s ruling that marriages performed by ministers without a congregation or place of worship are invalid. The 2007 ruling, by a judge in York County, Pa., negated a marriage officiated by a minister who was…

By Rachel Pomerance and Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service Conservative rabbis expressed their “dismay” this week over a traditional Good Friday prayer that calls for the conversion of Jews that Pope Benedict XVI revised but left largely intact. In a last-minute resolution added to the agenda of the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual convention in Washington,…

By David Briggs c. 2008 Religion News Service EUCLID, Ohio — Hundreds of worshippers pack every seat in the chapel of the National Shrine and Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. As the rosary is recited, some kneel in front of a statue of Mary in a side alcove. Others stand in back, rosary beads…

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…
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