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More than 3 percent of adult women who attend religious services at least once a month have been victims of clergy sexual misconduct, according to researchers at Baylor University. Put another way: in a congregation of 400 people, seven adult women have been targets of sexual advances by clergy, the study says. In addition, in…

From the Garden of Eden to modern community-supported organic gardens, Jews are returning to their biblical call “to till and to tend” the earth. Spurred by the popularity of environmental movements across denominations and the demands of the economic recession, Jewish leaders are transforming ancient concepts and observances — including Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New…

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News – September 8, 2009 Sep. 8–MUMBAI — It was about a year ago that Mumbai-based Karan Vir Arora got the idea of opening an Indian comics company on the lines of international pop culture giants like DC comics, Marvel, and Dark Horse comics. Thus came along Vimanika, an Indian comics company…

BOSTON – Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the central figures in the clergy sex abuse scandal, was convicted after a 27-year-old man tearfully described how the popular priest used to pull him out of catechism classes and rape him, beginning when he was just 6 years old. The victim said he did not remember…

WASHINGTON — As the nation marks the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, almost six in 10 Americans believe Muslims are the subject of discrimination — more than other major religious groups — a new survey shows. According to a study released Wednesday (Sept. 9) by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life,…

(RNS) Aspiring teachers at the flagship universities of all three major Jewish movements are getting a boost from the Jim Joseph Foundation, through an $11.5 million grant to help train educators for the next generation of young Jews. The foundation’s gift will be distributed over the next five years, split between the Orthodox movement’s Yeshiva…

NEW ORLEANS — From the little office behind Little Zion Baptist Church, David Eber, 24, works on recovery among residents of the Lower 9th Ward, distributing “green” building materials, writing grant applications and listening to Katrina stories. Rebecca Waxman, 23, from St. Louis, drives around the city for Unity of Greater New Orleans, helping homeless…

(RNS) American leaders of a conservative Catholic movement have apologized for their founder’s sexual misbehavior and ordered followers to cease honoring his memory with portraits or “inappropriate” references in official literature. Regional leaders of Regnum Christi, the lay movement affiliated with the religious order the Legion of Christ, made the statements in a letter addressed…

WASHINGTON– When it’s time to relax, some senators play golf. Others pour themselves a drink. But Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, isn’t inclined toward the greens and his faith preaches against alcohol. Instead, he’s spent time on and off for the last seven years building a defense of the Book of Mormon, one of the key…

BALTIMORE (RNS) Ten Maryland nuns — almost an entire religious community — converted from the Episcopal Church to Catholicism on Thursday (Sept. 3), saying their former denomination had become too liberal in its acceptance of homosexuality. The ten members of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, who were received into the Catholic Church by…
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