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By Carlyle Murphy Religion News Service Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — A group of visiting Japanese scholars was making a routine courtesy call recently on King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz when the monarch raised a subject that, as he put it, had “obsessed me since two years ago.” Distressed by what he described as disintegrating family…

By Carol Ann Campbell Religion News Service Pope John Paul II would kneel to kiss the ground of foreign countries. He unleashed doves to signal peace. He placed a prayer of atonement in cracks of Jerusalem’s Western Wall. And the cameras clicked. John Paul, a former actor, reveled in the power of image. In contrast,…

Associated Press – April 7, 2008 JERUSALEM – American televangelist John Hagee led several hundred flag-waving followers across Jerusalem on Monday, a colorful display of the growing alliance between Christian evangelicals and Israel. Hagee, who calls himself a Christian Zionist, pledged his unconditional backing for the Jewish state. He also vehemently denied he is anti-Catholic,…

Associated Press – April 7, 2008 SAN ANGELO, Texas – Authorities struggled Monday to persuade children to give them any information about the goings-on inside a breakaway Mormon compound in west Texas built by a jailed polygamist leader. Investigating a report of an underage marriage, child welfare and law enforcement authorities were searching for a…
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