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One day after Sunday’s (March 8) church shooting that left an Illinois pastor dead, church security consultant Marc Brooks fielded calls from eight congregations eager to get firearms into the hands of worship staff or volunteers. Those churches will first need to pass Brooks’ state-certified test to carry a concealed weapon. But keeping a congregation…

Jerusalem – Pope Benedict XVI will visit Jerusalem’s Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock during his upcoming Mideast trip in a show of solidarity with Jews and Muslims, the papal envoy in Jerusalem said Tuesday. Benedict announced this week that he would make an eight-day trip to the Holy Land in May. It…

Dharmsala, India – China has overseen a “brutal crackdown” in Tibet since protests shook the Himalayan region last year, part of decades of Chinese oppression that have driven Tibetan culture to the verge of extinction, the Dalai Lama said Tuesday. The Tibetan spiritual leader made the comments in a speech to mark the 50th anniversary…

PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Sudan’s decision to expel Mercy Corps and 12 other humanitarian organizations from the war-torn nation risks millions of lives, says Neal Keny-Guyer, chief executive of the Portland-based humanitarian agency. About 2.5 million Sudanese have been living on international aid channeled largely through relief organizations and the United Nations. They are no longer…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will visit Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories for a week this May, the pope confirmed on Sunday (Mar. 8). “I will make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to ask the Lord, as I visit the places sanctified by his earthly passage, for the precious gift of unity…

(UNDATED) The nation has grown less religious in the last two decades, a new study shows, with a 10 percent drop in the number of people who call themselves Christians and increases in all 50 states among those who are not aligned with any faith. Between 1990 and 2008, the percentage of Americans who identified…

Religion News Service WASHINGTON — Years from now, when researchers wonder what people preached about at the time of President Obama’s inauguration, they’ll know what the Rev. Christopher Rodkey of Lebanon, Pa., had to say. He’s one of more than 250 people who sent in sermons and orations to the Library of Congress, whose American…

(UNDATED) The former Mormon who was excommunicated for publishing a calendar of half-naked Mormon missionaries said Friday (March 6) he will sue a church-owned university for denying him a degree — and plans to publish two risque new calendars. Chad Hardy, a former missionary and sixth-generation member of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter-day Saints,…

TORONTO (RNS) Canadian researchers have found that strong religious convictions can lower stress and enhance the performance of basic tasks. A team in Toronto put 28 students through tests measuring both levels of religious observance and stress caused by making mistakes on a test. The newly published study by professors at the University of Toronto…

A few years ago, the question was What Would Jesus Do? Later it became What Would Jesus Drive? Now, with the economy in freefall because of a collapse in home values, the question seems to be: Whom Would Jesus Bailout? Under a plan unveiled Wednesday (March 4), the White House hopes to avert as many…
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