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RNS By Diana Keough Chicago — Otis Moss III is striking in a raw way. Broad-faced, boyish and slender, the 36-year-old preacher looks more like a man who is consumed with fashion than the fate of sinners. But when he steps into the large pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ — the South Side…

RNS By Jim Harger and Lindsay Vanhulle Grand Rapids, Mich. (RNS) Mayor George Heartwell’s campaign postcard to Catholic voters has upset some local members of that faith. The face of the postcard shows St. Mary’s Catholic Church steeple and the Basilica of St. Adalbert. The back is signed by prominent local Catholics, including the Rev.…

RNS By Francis X. Rocca Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jewish convert whose mother died in the Auschwitz concentration camp before he rose to become the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, died Sunday (August 6) at the age of 80. The cause of death was an undisclosed illness for which he had been hospitalized since April.…

RNS By Jennifer Koons Washington – High-ranking Army and Air Force personnel violated military regulations when they participated in a promotional video for a private evangelical organization, according to a report by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General. A Pentagon spokesman said Monday (Aug. 6) it would be up to the Army and Air Force…

Associated Press Beijing – August 3 – Scores of people have been arrested in a traditionally Tibetan area of western China following public calls for the return of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, reports said Friday. Police and army reinforcements were sent to the town of Lithang in western Sichuan province following the…

United Press International Washington – Aug 3 – A Maryland court is being asked to decide whether Montgomery County schools can launch a controversial new sex education curriculum this fall. Opponents of the move have filed an administrative appeal seeking to reverse a decision by the Maryland State Board of Education that permits Montgomery County…

United Press International Los Angeles – Aug 3 – A Los Angeles newscaster was suspended without pay for two months for covering Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while they were romantically involved. Besides KVEA-TV newscaster Mirthala Salinas’ suspension, three others at the Telemundo network were disciplined, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. KVEA General Manager Manuel Abud…

RNS By Alexandra Steigrad Washingon — Can a Mormon win the White House? It’s a question on the minds of many voters watching former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — not to mention Romney’s campaign itself. But for the Romney camp, the more immediate question is whether Romney can conquer the South, a region where evangelicals…

RNS by Daniel Burke The nation’s largest Lutheran denomination will again face the divisive issue of sexuality when it considers resolutions on gay clergy and same-sex blessings at its biennial assembly in Chicago next week (Aug. 8-12). After the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) voted at its last Churchwide Assembly in 2005 to maintain…

RNS by Michelle Rindels As Americans get older, their confidence in an afterlife increases, according to a recent survey of people over 50 conducted by the AARP, the advocacy group for seniors. Seventy-three percent of older people believe in life after death, and two-thirds of those believers say that confidence has grown with age, according…
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