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NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Jerusalem is the “gateway to heaven” for three major religions, where faithful Jews, Christians and Muslims feel exceptionally close to the Eternal.
Yet the holy city has also been an excellent place to get your skull cracked, ...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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Why has the marriage rate fallen by 50 percent since 1970? Many couples cohabit rather than marry. The number of cohabiting couples has soared 12-fold from 430,000 in 1960 to 5.2 million in 2005. About half of those who live together, never do marry....
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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Why has the marriage rate fallen by 50 percent since 1970? Many couples cohabit rather than marry. The number of cohabiting couples has soared 12-fold from 430,000 in 1960 to 5.2 million in 2005. About half of those who live together, never do marry....
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Orthodox Patriarchate and a breakaway church-in-exile will formally reconcile in May, ending a split that dates back to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Russian news reports said on Tuesday.Russian Patriarch Alexy II and Metro...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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ATLANTA (AP) — Heavy bass beats echo through the church as youngsters rush down the sanctuary aisles. Colourful stage lights spin around overhead as the eager fans start screaming: “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!”When the sextet Dem Unknown WarriorZ appears up...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) — The Protestant and Roman Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland’s four biggest churches appealed on Thursday for their long-divided groups to unite politically in 2007.In a joint statement, Catholic Archbishop Sean Brady, Presbyt...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — When a pastor created a rehabilitation programme for parolees near his church, the city of Sinton stepped in to stop it.Within months of the programme’s start in 1998, officials in the small city just north of Corpus Christi barr...
DATE: Dec 30, 2006
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One popular Christmas jingle has these lyrics, ‘Tis the season to be jolly’.
A number of Bermudians seem to have paraphrased those words with ‘Tis the season to travel’.... some to be with relatives, others to get away from them. The airline and trav...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) — Once upon a time the holiday season was a quiet time spent with family and friends — simpler, less commercial, more spiritual, nothing like today’s frenzied orgy of soulless consumption.“There are worlds of money wasted, at this time ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI yesterday urged intensified dialogue with Islam, saying in a Christmas speech that 2006 will be remembered as a year marked by the danger of a clash between cultures and religions.Benedict compared the situation ...
DATE: Dec 23, 2006
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