By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service Comedian Kathy Griffin has built her entire D-list career on telling A-list Hollywood celebrities — Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Ryan Seacrest — to “suck it.” So when she told Jesus to “suck it” after winning an Emmy for her reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” it was meant…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service When Bishop Harry Jackson saw melting glaciers and devastated forests on a recent trip to Alaska, he decided that global warming should be a higher priority on his list of key issues for evangelicals. “I thought the globe was warming, but I thought that there was a whole…

Associated Press St. George, Utah – A judge on Tuesday refused to acquit a polygamist sect leader charged with sex crimes in the arranged marriage of a 14-year old girl to her older cousin, rejecting the defense’s claims that Utah prosecutors had failed to make their case. The motion by Warren Jeffs’ lawyers came after…

Associated Press Jerusalem – President Shimon Peres said Tuesday that he is hopeful about an upcoming Mideast peace conference and praised the relationship developing between the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president. In his first appearance as Israel’s president before foreign reporters, the 84-year-old Nobel Peace laureate blamed Islamic militants for harsh Israeli restrictions…

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