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United Press International BOSTON, Nov 5, 2007 (UPI via COMTEX) — A Harvard study showed U.S. medical students receive little information about military medical ethics or a physician’s duties under the Geneva Conventions. Harvard Medical School researchers surveyed eight U.S. medical schools and found 94 percent of students receive less than one hour of instruction…

Associated Press SAN GERONIMO, Calif. – When David Milarch first visited Northern California in 1968, he thought he would see avenues of coast redwoods 100 miles long. What he found instead was a “moonscape,” he said. Nearly 40 years later, the Michigan arborist has returned to the region to realize his dream of preserving and…

Associated Press ROSKILDE, Denmark – The Muslim outcry over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad last year is a closed chapter that no longer affects Denmark’s image abroad, the prime minister said in an interview Friday. On Nov. 13, the Scandinavian country will hold its first election since the cartoon crisis in early 2006 when…

By Ian Wilheim Religion News Service WASHINGTON — The Iraq war has claimed many victims, but perhaps the least known is a small religion that scholars say is the last remaining link to ancient faiths that flourished during the time of the Roman Empire. Mandaeanism, a monotheistic belief that follows the teachings of John the…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service A transgender man can remain pastor of his Baltimore church, the United Methodist Church’s high court announced late Tuesday (Oct. 30), but the court sidestepped larger questions about whether gender change is acceptable in the church. No law in the church’s Book of Discipline prohibits transgender clergy, the nine-member…

Associated Press Berlin – A vast archive of Nazi-era documents started accepting online requests Thursday for information from victims of Nazi crimes and people tracing relatives – a move meant to speed up an often-slow process. The move by the archive, based in the central German town of Bad Arolsen, should make it easier for…

Associated Press Baltimore – Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church ordered to pay nearly $11 million in damages to a grieving father smiled as they walked out of the courtroom, vowing that the verdict would not deter them from protesting at military funerals. “Absolutely, don’t you understand this was an act in futility?” said Shirley…

Associated Press WASHINGTON – Two prosecutors in the state of Texas, the U.S. leader in executions, said Wednesday they will wait for a Supreme Court decision on lethal injection procedures before asking judges to set execution dates for death row inmates. Roe Wilson, a district attorney who handles death penalty appeals for the Houston area,…

Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar – More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully Wednesday in a northern Myanmar town noted for its defiance of the country’s military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave anti-government demonstrations. The monks marched for nearly an hour in the town of Pakokku, chanting a Buddhist…

Associated Press The nation’s bishops will vote next month on a political roadmap for Roman Catholics headed into the 2008 election that gives top billing to abortion but also spotlights a wide range of issues, including opposition to torture and killing noncombatants in war. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued similar guides on…
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