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Associated Press – February 20, 2008 PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Fed up with violence and broken promises, voters in Pakistan’s deeply conservative northwest have thrown out the Islamist parties that ruled this province for five years – a clear sign that Pakistanis rejected religious extremism in a region where al-Qaida and the Taliban have sought refuge.…

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service Vatican City — In his 26-year reign, Pope John Paul II canonized a record 482 saints and beatified an additional 1,341 Catholics, more than all his predecessors combined since the late 16th century. John Paul’s recognition of holiness among previously underrepresented groups of laypeople and non-Europeans aroused enthusiasm…

Associated Press Kampala, Uganda – Uganda’s Anglican church threatened Monday to secede from the rest of the 77-million member fellowship unless U.S. clergy condemn homosexuality. The announcement was the latest salvo in a fierce debate about homosexuality has overtaken the global Anglican Communion since its U.S. wing – the Episcopal Church – consecrated its first…

Associated Press Asheville, N.C. – Evangelist Billy Graham is back at his North Carolina home recovering from surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid to his brain. Mission Hospitals spokeswoman Merrell Gregory says Graham is recovering well and physicians are pleased with his progress. Graham underwent surgery last Wednesday. Dr. Ralph Loomis said…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania filed lawsuits Thursday (Feb. 14) challenging a judge’s ruling that marriages performed by ministers without a congregation or place of worship are invalid. The 2007 ruling, by a judge in York County, Pa., negated a marriage officiated by a minister who was…

By Rachel Pomerance and Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service Conservative rabbis expressed their “dismay” this week over a traditional Good Friday prayer that calls for the conversion of Jews that Pope Benedict XVI revised but left largely intact. In a last-minute resolution added to the agenda of the Rabbinical Assembly’s annual convention in Washington,…

By David Briggs c. 2008 Religion News Service EUCLID, Ohio — Hundreds of worshippers pack every seat in the chapel of the National Shrine and Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. As the rosary is recited, some kneel in front of a statue of Mary in a side alcove. Others stand in back, rosary beads…

By Matthew Streib c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON — Religious anti-abortion groups are angry over proposed changes in the Bush administration’s global AIDS relief program, which has reportedly provided lifesaving medicine to 1.4 million people worldwide. “The way the bill’s been reworked, it would steer money intended to help reduce HIV/AIDS into the coffers…

Associated Press – February 14, 2008 ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Evangelist Billy Graham was recovering Thursday from a surgery to update a shunt that controls excess fluid in his brain, a family spokesman said. The 89-year-old Southern Baptist minister was expected to spend some of the day walking the halls of Asheville’s Mission Hospital and to…

Associated Press – February 13, 2008 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has put Sister Lucia – the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary during 1917 apparitions in Fatima – on a fast-track to possible sainthood, the Vatican said Wednesday. The customary waiting period before beginning the process…
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