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WASHINGTON — The ink had barely dried on the pope’s newest encyclical when the group Catholics for Working Families used the document to push for the pro-union Employee Free Choice Act. Has Pope Benedict XVI suddenly become a liberal? Worker’s rights. Financial regulation. Environmental protection. They’re all policies that are straight out of the Democratic…

WASHINGTON — From a sparsely adorned office building a stone’s throw from the White House, Joshua DuBois carefully navigates the delicate line between church and state. Each morning, he sends a devotional message to President Obama’s BlackBerry. He appears before religious and community groups to explain his role as director of the White House Office…

(RNS) A Michigan-based Christian relief group, International Aid, has closed its doors amid financial struggles while World Vision, one of the largest evangelical relief agencies, has eliminated about 75 positions. International Aid needed to collect about $1.5 million in the past two months to balance its $70 million budget, but only gathered between $150,000 and…

WASHINGTON (RNS) Christian conservative groups decried new federal guidelines that will increase taxpayer dollars going to embryonic stem cell research. The guidelines, which took effect Tuesday (July 7) after they were issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stipulate that federally funded research will be allowed only on excess embryos at fertility clinics that…

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown. In the third encyclical of his pontificate, Benedict pressed for reform of the United Nations and international economic and…

WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama said he may attend “a number of different churches” in Washington rather than just one and is receiving a daily devotional message from a key staffer. “How we handle church when we’re here in D.C. is something that we’re still figuring out,” the president said during a roundtable with Catholic press…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican City State reported a deficit of $22 million for 2008 as a consequence of the “global economic-financial crisis,” the Vatican announced on Saturday (July 4). The Vatican’s annual profit and loss statements showed that the 108-acre sovereign territory, which includes St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums, fared much worse…

WASHINGTON (RNS) California megachurch pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren spent his Independence Day here in the nation’s capital addressing the largest Muslim organization in North America. While publicity ignited before the speech, the actual event had some competing fanfare. The speech kicked off 40 minutes late, and just in time for the Fourth of…

Americans looking to combine love of God with love of country this July 4th can quote the new “American Patriot’s Bible,” which says God has influenced America though godly Founding Fathers, presidents and soldiers. “This Bible is designed for the decent, hardworking core of America, the ordinary man or woman who loves this nation and…

Oregon City, Oregon – Carl and Raylene Worthington told detectives that they never considered calling a doctor, even as their 15-month-old daughter deteriorated and died. “I don’t believe in them,” Carl Worthington said of doctors. “I believe in faith healing.” Raylene Worthington said that her religious beliefs do not encompass medical care and that she…
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