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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…

Associated Press – February 11, 2008 ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Republican John McCain challenged the notion he is struggling to rally conservative critics as he picked up the endorsement Monday of evangelical leader Gary Bauer. “We’re doing fine. We’re doing fine,” McCain told reporters in Annapolis, dismissing the notion that losses in two states on Saturday…
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