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c. 2009 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS — The nation’s largest umbrella group for Roman Catholic sisters opened its annual meeting here Tuesday (Aug. 11), marking the first formal gathering of members since the Vatican launched two unprecedented inquiries into their communities. Officers of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, whose 1,500 members represent about…

(RNS) The president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s domestic missions agency and three of his associates resigned Tuesday (Aug. 11) after questions were raised about his management of the agency. Geoff Hammond led the North American Mission Board for two years. Hammond’s resignation takes effect immediately, Tim Patterson, chairman of the agency’s trustee board, said…

(RNS) A Virginia jail will stop censoring religious mail after protests from civil rights organizations that clerks had turned Bible-quoting missives from an inmate’s mother into tattered strips of paper signed “Love, Mom.” Rappahannock Regional Jail authorities agreed to change the policy after receiving a letter signed by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, the…

JERUSALEM – A planeload of Israeli rabbis and Jewish mystics held an airborne prayer meeting in the belief that it could help check the spread of swine flu in Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported Tuesday. The Yediot Ahronot daily said a plane with 50 people on board circled over Israel on Monday, with the passengers…
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