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By Nancy Haught Religion News Service Portland, Ore. — The Christmas contradiction gives Pastor Rick McKinley a headache. Americans will spend about $475 billion this year on gifts, decorations and parties that many won’t even remember next year. They will run themselves ragged — shopping, wrapping and celebrating. And some won’t pay off their Christmas…

Associated Press Milan, Italy – The Dalai Lama opened a 10-day visit to Italy on Thursday with few official meetings on his schedule and no plans by the Vatican for a papal audience for the Tibetan spiritual leader, despite earlier reports there would be one. “I’m sorry I won’t meet him,” the Italian news agency…

Associated Press College Station, Texas – Republican Mitt Romney, confronting voters’ skepticism about his Mormon faith, declared Thursday that as president he would “serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause,” and said calls for him to explain and justify his religious beliefs go against the profound wishes of the nation’s founders. At…

Associated Press – December 5, 2007 SPOKANE, Wash. – The city’s Police Department will remove crosses from its chaplain badges to settle a lawsuit filed by a Lutheran pastor-turned-atheist. “It’s a milestone,” said Ray Ideus, 75, who volunteers eight hours a week for the department, and filed the lawsuit in 2006. “It’s very important that…
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