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By Joanna Corman Religion News Service Hannah Nemer’s bat mitzvah was still a year away, but already she was feeling reluctant about such a big production. Based on other Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies she had attended, she worried the ritual would be more an empty performance rather than the spiritual transformation she desired. But when her…

Associated Press Washington – Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Tuesday he prays every night the United States doesn’t go to war with Iran, and he blamed Russia and China for standing in the way of a diplomatic solution. “I don’t think it’s inevitable that we’re in a conflict with Iran,” McCain said in an…

By Ron Csillag Religion News Service TORONTO (RNS) The Ottawa diocese of the Anglican Church of Canada has approved same-sex marriage blessings in a move sure to inflame tensions in the worldwide Anglican Communion in the debate over gay rights. Voting Saturday (Oct. 13) by a margin of 177 to 97, delegates to the diocese’s…

By ADELLE M. BANKS and BECKIE SUPIANO Religion News Service ARLINGTON, Va. — When United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon addressed U.S. evangelical leaders in an historic forum on Thursday (Oct. 11), there was nervousness on all sides. There was long-held skepticism among some religious conservatives about the world body. Meanwhile, some evangelicals were ready to…
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