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Is Facebook a Sin? Some Muslims Think So
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mconsoli
(RNS) Do a Google search on Shirien Elamawy and you’ll find her Tweets, her Egyptian Gumbo website, her college newspaper columns, and the beginnings of her Muslim children’s book. What you won’t find anywhere is an image of Elamawy herself. It’s not attached to a screed she wrote against Oprah Winfrey, nor a speech she…
Vatican Secrecy Keeps Victims, Accused in the Dark
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mconsoli
(RNS) Daniel Donohue doesn’t know when the call will come. He could be anywhere — at the supermarket, poolside with his four children, or in a classroom studying social work — when he learns the fate of the priest he says molested him as a teenager. Donohue testified against the priest at a church tribunal…
Raelians want to rehab `reputation’ of the swastika
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mconsoli
(RNS) The Raelians have designated this Sunday (June 27) as “World Swastika Rehabilitation Day,” saying the ancient symbol should no longer be damned by its ties to Nazism. A cross with arms bent at 90-degree angles, the swastika was adopted by the Nazi Party in the 1920s. A version of the swastika dates to ancient…
Traditional Hindu Temple Dedicated in Mississippi
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mconsoli
BRANDON, Miss. – A new Hindu temple is an incongruous sight in the middle of a bedroom community near the capital of Mississippi. The temple is believed to be among only a few in the South built in the ancient tradition of agama sastra. Artisans from India spent years working on the 3,500-square-foot temple, which…
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