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Creationists Launch Scientific Journal
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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) Answers in Genesis, the Christian ministry that founded the $27 million Creation Museum in Kentucky last year, has now launched an online technical journal to publish studies consistent with its biblical views. The Answers Research Journal will disseminate research conducted by creationist theologians and scientists “that are consistent…
Evicted Hindus Ponder Fate of Sacred Artifacts
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By G. Jeffrey MacDonald Religion News Service Epping, N.H. – Six Hindu men and a woman huddled together on a 20-degree January morning along a dirt road beside a series of posted “NO TRESPASSING” signs. They had come to save their deity. Having been evicted from their bucolic, 100-acre temple grounds two weeks earlier, they…
Vatican Says Pope Doesn’t Want to Roll Back Modernization
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Associated Press Vatican City – A Vatican official says Pope Benedict XVI doesn’t want to roll back the modernizing liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council. The pope last year removed restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass, a rite that was all but swept away by the Second Vatican Council. But Monsignor Guido Marini…
China Lashes Out at Dalai Lama, Other Olympic Critics
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Associated Press Beijing – In a blast of harsh rhetoric, China lashed out Thursday at the Dalai Lama and critics of Beijing’s support for Sudan, saying attempts to link political issues to the Beijing Summer Olympics betrayed the spirit of the games. “We can definitely not accept them,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in…
Holocaust Museum Founder Lerman Dies
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Associated Press – January 23, 2008 PHILADELPHIA – Miles Lerman, who fought against the Nazis in Poland and later helped found the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has died. He was 88. Lerman’s wife, Rosalie, confirmed Wednesday that he died Tuesday at his home in Philadelphia. Lerman was a member of a prosperous…
LA Archdiocese Offices Sold for $31M
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Associated Press – January 22, 2008 LOS ANGELES – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has sold its 12-story administrative headquarters building to help pay last year’s $660 million settlement with people alleging sex abuse by clergy, a spokesman said Tuesday. The Archdiocesan Catholic Center was sold to Jamison Properties of Los Angeles for…
Truck Hijackings Imperil Darfur Food Aid
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Associated Press – January 23, 2008 KHARTOUM, Sudan – A surge of truck hijackings threatens to cut off food rations for more than 2 million people in Darfur, the World Food Program said Wednesday, after 22 of its vehicles were attacked and stolen this month alone. With 18 drivers still missing, the U.N. agency said…
On the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Opposition Continues
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By Greg Trotter Religion News Service Washington – The anti-abortion pilgrims came from far and wide Tuesday (Jan. 22), by bus and by plane, bundled up in the cold and drizzle to support their cause. For some, it was their first March for Life. For others, the event has become a yearly journey. On the…
Bush’s Spiritual Adviser Backing Obama
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United Press International Houston – U.S. President George Bush’s spiritual adviser, the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, has decided to support the presidential bid of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. The leader of Houston’s Windsor Village United Methodist Church said Obama’s “character, confidence and courage” inspired him to support his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Houston…
Court Rules Against Muslim Inmate
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Associated Press Washington – The Supreme Court said Tuesday that a Muslim inmate cannot sue the government over the disappearance of the prisoner’s copies of the Quran and a prayer rug. In a 5-4 ruling, the justices said the federal law the inmate relied on prohibits lawsuits against federal corrections officers. Abdus-Shahid M.S. Ali says…
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