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Jewish Outcry Prompts Facebook to Reluctantly Remove Fan Page for Third Palestinian Intifada
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Nicole Neroulias
Reversing an earlier announcement that it would merely “monitor” the situation, Facebook shut down a fan page for the “Third Palestinian Intifada” today — prompted by outcry from Israeli officials and Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League. I’m a bit confused, because you can still find several Facebook pages for Third Palestinian Intifada (mostly in Arabic),…
RIP Geraldine Ferraro: Political Trailblazer, Pro-Choice Catholic & ‘Friend of Israel’
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Nicole Neroulias
I don’t normally blog about obituaries here — religious leaders and prominent people of faith die every week, after all — but the coverage of the death of trailblazing vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, 75, struck me as particularly interesting, from a faith-related perspective. (Also, Zsa Zsa Gabor must be relieved that Ferraro seems to be…
Fun Friday: He’s Not Heavy, He’s My Brother (in Christ)
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Nicole Neroulias
A new study, covered by Religion News Service, USA Today & The Chicago Tribune, finds that churchgoers tend to be fatter than their less devout peers. Baptists tend to be the heaviest, with Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist groups bringing up the (skinny) rear. Matthew Feinstein, the Northwestern Medicine study’s lead investigator, speculated: It’s possible that getting…
Poll: U.S. Christians Conflicted About Why Disasters Strike
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Nicole Neroulias
This month’s new Public Religion Research Institute poll asked how America’s evangelicals, mainline Protestants, Catholics and minority Christians felt about natural disasters, like Japan’s earthquake-tsunami-nuclear crisis, as it relates to their understanding of God. The findings include: Most white evangelicals (84 percent) and minority Christians (76 percent) believe God is in control of everything that happens…
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