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Obama’s Muslim Outreach Named Top Religion Story of 2009
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mconsoli
(RNS) President Obama’s speech to the Muslim world has been ranked by the nation’s religion journalists as the top religion story of the year. The June speech in Cairo, in which the president quoted from the Quran and said America will “never” be at war with Islam, was ranked as the No. 1 religion story…
Clergy Unite On a Common Message: Thou Shalt Be Civil
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mconsoli
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) It’s gotten ugly out there in the public square — on television, at public meetings, on the Internet. Whether it’s health care reform specifically, or politics generally, people seem to demonize each other, shout each other down and gleefully circulate vicious e-mail messages distorting the other side. So much so that Christian,…
Pope Says Environment as Great a Threat as Terrorism
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mconsoli
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Neglect of the natural environment is as great a threat to peace and prosperity as global terrorism, Pope Benedict XVI said in his most extensive ecological statement to date, released by the Vatican on Tuesday (Dec. 15). “If You Want To Cultivate Peace, Protect Creation,” is the title of Benedict’s message for…
Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91
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nsymmonds
TULSA, Okla. – Oral Roberts, a pioneer in televangelism who founded a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was hospitalized after a fall on Saturday. He had survived…
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