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Associated Press London – Albert Einstein: arch rationalist or scientist with a spiritual core? A letter being auctioned in London this week adds more fuel to the long-simmering debate about the Nobel prize-winning physicist’s religious views. In the note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of…

Associated Press Kyi Bui Khaw, Myanmar – The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded an uprising last fall against Myanmar’s military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims. The military regime has moved to curb the Buddhist clerics’ efforts, even as it fails to deliver adequate…

Associated Press – May 12, 2008 NEWARK, New Jersey – A deportation hearing for a popular Muslim leader resumed Monday with both sides focusing on a disputed arrest in Israel that is at the heart of the case. Mohammad Qatanani, 44, is being denied U.S. residency based on allegations that he failed to disclose the…

United Press International – May 12, 2008 VATICAN CITY, May 10, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) — The Roman Catholic Church, reflecting the love of Latin by Pope Benedict XVI, has opened a Web site at the Vatican written in the church’s ancient language. The Vatican’s official Web site began featuring a new Latin section called…

By Adelle M. Banks c. 2008 Religion News Service LYNCHBURG, Va. — Nearly a year after his father’s death, the Rev. Jonathan Falwell walks up and down the stage of Thomas Road Baptist Church with a series of briefcases behind him like the set for NBC’s “Deal or No Deal.” There’s no pulpit in sight;…

Associated Press – May 8, 2008 BAD AROLSEN, Germany – A mother and child separated. A father’s war wound. An uncle’s name on a list. The unrelated and disparate items are among the discoveries made by 40 Jewish genealogists who spent the past week plumbing a trove of Nazi documents made public after 60 years.…

Associated Press – May 9, 2008 BEIJING – The son of American evangelist Billy Graham said Friday he is opposed to missionary work at this summer’s Beijing Olympic Games. Franklin Graham, also an evangelist, was speaking to reporters Friday during a visit to Beijing for meetings with the Communist Party-controlled Protestant church movement. He said…

By Daniel Burke c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) After a natural disaster strikes in the United States, the question almost immediately arises: Where was God? Or, did God allow this to happen? Half a world away, as Myanmar digs out from a devastating cyclone that experts say could claim 100,000 lives or more, the…

Associated Press Dharmsala, India – The Dalai Lama’s envoys and Chinese officials disagreed more than they agreed at weekend talks on how to move beyond the unrest in Tibet, one of the Tibetan spiritual leader’s representatives said Thursday. Both sides made “concrete proposals” that could be part of a future agenda for discussions on Tibet,…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service After Pope Benedict XVI’s first papal visit to the U.S. last month, about 60 percent of Americans now report favorable views of the pontiff, a modest bump from pre-trip opinions, according to new polls. Before his April 15-20 visit to Washington, D.C. and New York, the German-born pope was…
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