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BC-US-REL--Religion Briefs,0946
Religion news in brief
9 Boston-area Catholic churches appeal directly to pope to overturn 2004 closings
BOSTON (AP) -- A group of Roman Catholics asked Pope Benedict XVI to reverse the decision by the Archdiocese of B...
DATE: Oct 23, 2010
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n Outcome will set precedent and could raise tension–¦ Non-Muslim minority unease holding back govt turnaround
By Razak Ahmad
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (Reuters) — Malaysia's highest court began proceedings on Monday on a landmark inter-religious child cus...
DATE: May 15, 2010
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HARARE (Reuters) — President Robert Mugabe has dismissed criticism from the country’s Catholic bishops as “nonsense” and warned that his government could start treating the clergy as political foes.In a pastoral letter last month, the Zimbabwe Cathol...
DATE: May 05, 2007
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — African Anglican bishops have issued a message to Zimbabweans that was broadly supportive of the government, sharply contrasting with an earlier call from Catholic leaders on President Robert Mugabe to step down.An Anglican pa...
DATE: Apr 21, 2007
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The Jamaicans in Bermuda are celebrating their country’s 45 years of independence by holding a host of events over the coming months.
The first event on the agenda is set to take place at the Bermuda College Cafeteria, on Saturday morning.
Jamaican A...
DATE: Mar 24, 2007
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This Sunday thousands of churches will sing ?Amazing Grace,? written by John Newton, a former slave ship captain who converted and became a pastor. This is to promote a major new Christian film. ?Amazing Grace? opening across America on February 23.
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DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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This Sunday thousands of churches will sing “Amazing Grace,” written by John Newton, a former slave ship captain who converted and became a pastor. This is to promote a major new Christian film. “Amazing Grace” opening across America on February 23.
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DATE: Feb 17, 2007
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A new unity of black and white Evangelicals and Catholics surfaced in a "Justice Sunday III" simulcast aired on Christian TV and radio networks prior to the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito as a Supreme Court Justice.
Histori...
DATE: Jan 14, 2006
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Washington ? "God save the United States and this honourable court." With that prayer opening the US Supreme Court, the justices gathered to hear Michael Newdow, argue that his daughter ought not be subjected to beginning her school day by reciting t...
DATE: Mar 27, 2004
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Tomorrow, 50 Episcopal bishops are expected to consecrate Gene Robinson, the world's first divorced, openly homosexual man as a bishop of a major Christian denomination at a New Hampshire ice hockey rink, because an expected crowd of 6,000 can't fit ...
DATE: Nov 01, 2003
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