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Laura Silsby, Baptist Missionary Who Tried to Take Kids From Haiti, Is Freed
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Nicole Neroulias
Three weeks after charges were dropped against nine of the 10 Baptist missionaries who had tried to take 33 Haitian children (most or all of them not technically orphans) into the Dominican Republic after January’s earthquake, group leader Laura Silsby has been freed. The Associated Press reports that Silsby, 40, who is from Idaho, was…
What I’ve Missed: Top 5 Religion Headlines of the Past Week
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Nicole Neroulias
I’m back from my family trip to London, Cyprus and Greece — narrowly missing volcanic ash and British Airways strike delays along the way — and I’ve learned three things that relate to the religion beat: the average Cypriot doesn’t know that Pope Benedict XVI is visiting in a few weeks, the average Greek doesn’t know that…
Kagan’s Rehnquist-like Establishment Clause
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mconsoli
Nicole Neroulias returns to Belief Beat next week, but while she’s away, we wanted to introduce you to another blogger who will be joining Beliefnet soon. Mark Silk, who blogs at Spiritual Politics, will start a new blog for Beliefnet later this month.(He’ll also keep blogging at Spiritual Politics) We hope you’ll enjoy his post…
Away Message: Top 5 Recommended Religion News Sources
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Nicole Neroulias
Hope everyone had a good Mother’s Day! Belief Beat is on a break this week, while I’m visiting family overseas. (Unfortunately, I’m missing Pope Benedict’s visit to Cyprus by less than a month… Then again, between the volcanic ash still spreading from Iceland, the strikes bogging down travelers in Greece, and our inevitable interfaith christening confusion, this trip is already…
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