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Pope Names 23 New Cardinals
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By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday (Oct. 17) said he will elevate 23 men, including two Americans, to the highest ranks of the Roman Catholic hierarchy when he makes them cardinals at a ceremony next month in Rome. Eighteen of the newest cardinals will be under…
Wife of ORU Pres Denies Lurid Behavior
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Bobby Ross Jr. Religion News Service Oklahoma City – The wife of Oral Roberts University’s president denied charges that she spent the night with an underage male and engaged in other lurid behavior with a “male 16-year-old friend,” as alleged in a recent lawsuit. Lindsay Roberts, whose husband, Richard Roberts, is president of the charismatic…
Alternative Bar Mitzvahs for Some Young Jews
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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…
McCain Says He Prays No War with Iran
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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…
Ottawa Anglicans Approve Same-Sex Blessings
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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…
Evangelicals Look Overseas to Global Concerns
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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…
Spiritual Counseling Goes To the Dogs
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By David Briggs Religion News Service BAY VILLAGE, Ohio — There was a lot of heavy panting going on in front of St. Raphael Catholic Church earlier this month. But only after participants had rubbed noses and sniffed one another all over. Every pooch had its day at the animal blessing service at St. Raphael,…
Armenians Applaud U.S. Vote on Genocide
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Associated Press – October 12, 2007 YEREVAN, Armenia – Armenian lawmakers rose to their feet in applause, and their president urged the United States to go further after a U.S. House panel approved a resolution labeling the World War I-era killings of Armenians by Turks genocide. The decision of the House Foreign Affairs Committee was…
Vatican Publishes Knights Templar Papers
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Associated Press – October 12, 2007 VATICAN CITY – It’s not the Holy Grail, but for fans of “The Da Vinci Code” and its tantalizing story line about the Knights Templar, it could be the next best thing. Ignored for centuries, documents about the heresy trial of the ancient Christian order discovered in the Vatican’s…
Candidates Say Gore Deserves Nobel Win
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Associated Press WASHINGTON – Reaction to former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sharing the Nobel Peace Prize for their work in bringing world attention to the problem of climate change: “Of course he’s happy for Vice President Gore …. He’s happy for the International Panel on Climate Change scientists…
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