By Sarah More McCann Religion News Service Washington – The sukkah tent outside George Washington University’s Hillel was crowded as Conservative, Reform and Orthodox Jewish students gathered to celebrate Sukkot, a holiday commemorating the 40 years Jews spent wandering in the desert. It was enough to make a Jewish grandmother proud, as the students attempted…

The Providence Journal PROVIDENCE – The Rev. Alfred P. Almonte hadn’t celebrated the Mass in Latin in about four decades, so when one of his parishioners at St. Bartholomew parish in Silver Lake suggested that he bring back the Latin Mass as part of the church’s 100-year jubilee, he knew that he would have some…

By Kay Campbell Religion News Service HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In the midst of their fight to bring freedom to Iraq and Afghanistan, some American soldiers say they are finding their own freedoms threatened by the troops on their own side. Though the U.S. Constitution mandates that the government apply no test of faith for employment…

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Oral Roberts was blind-sided by allegations that the university he founded was being exploited by his son and daughter-in-law, the aging televangelist said Tuesday in his first public comments on the case. Roberts phoned CNN’s “Larry King Live” to weigh in on the accusations leveled in…

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