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By G. Jeffrey MacDonald BOSTON (RNS) An evangelical college on Boston’s North Shore is about to become nearly three times richer, thanks to a $60 million gift from a California couple whose two grandchildren attend the school. The gift to Gordon College from real estate developer Dale Fowler and his wife, Sarah Ann Fowler, catapults…

Associated Press – August 29, 2007 JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday criticized the extension of an underground cable at Jerusalem’s holiest site for Muslims and Jews, saying that digging the trench defies professional standards for such a sensitive historic site and could damage Bible-era relics. Islamic authorities responsible for the Al Aqsa Mosque complex,…

Associated Press – August 29, 2007 PARIS – Even holy water from the Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes can’t get by airport security screening passengers for suspicious liquids. A passenger on a new Vatican-backed charter airline had to hand over a container of water collected at Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral to security officials at…

Associated Press CHICAGO – The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago included an openly lesbian priest among five nominees for bishop Tuesday, as fellow Anglicans demand that the church bar gay bishops. The Rev. Tracey Lind, dean of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, who has a female partner, will be on the Nov. 10 ballot. If she wins,…
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