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Associated Press – June 25, 2008 LONDON – Topics included “Britney’s Tears: the Abject Female Celebrity in Postemotional Society” and “Hooker, Victim and/or Doormat: Lindsay Lohan and the Culture of Celebrity Notoriety.” European and American academics met Wednesday to examine society’s fascination with “train-wreck” female celebrities and why the public and the media seem to…

Associated Press – June 23, 2008 TIJUANA, Mexico – The rusty fence may divide the beaches of U.S. and Mexico, but it can’t break up a yoga class. A few dozen yoga aficionados rolled out their mats Sunday on both sides of the wall between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego. The international group stretched and…

Associated Press – June 24, 2008 BEIJING – Shanghai has banned dissidents, Falun Gong members and other regime critics from leaving the city during the August Olympics, a human rights group said Tuesday. The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said the Shanghai Public Security Bureau sent notices to dissidents, petitioners and…

By ERIC GORSKI, AP Religion Writer Tue Jun 24, As Barack Obama broadens his outreach to evangelical voters, one of the movement’s biggest names, James Dobson, accuses the likely Democratic presidential nominee of distorting the Bible and pushing a “fruitcake interpretation” of the Constitution. The criticism, to be aired Tuesday on Dobson’s Focus on the…

Associated Press – June 23, 2008 YANGON, Myanmar – In helping others, Myanmar’s saffron-robed Buddhist monks have helped themselves. The monks’ critical role in providing relief after Cyclone Nargis has galvanized their ranks and strengthened their political voice – just months after the junta quashed the democracy uprising spearheaded by the monks last fall. The…

Associated Press – June 23, 2008 KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S.-led forces rained fire for two days on militants near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, officials said Monday, killing about 55 insurgents and underscoring how fighting with Taliban insurgents is escalating. The battle in eastern Paktika province was the second in the past week to reportedly inflict…

Associated Press – June 23, 2008 DENVER – America remains a nation of believers, but a new survey finds most Americans don’t feel their religion is the only way to eternal life – even if their faith tradition teaches otherwise. The findings, revealed Monday in a survey of 35,000 adults, can either be taken as…

Associated Press – June 20, 2008 NEW YORK – Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged Jewish voters to denounce the whisper campaign that for months has pushed the false rumor that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. Bloomberg warned a Jewish group in Boca Raton, Fla., on Friday that the attempt to portray Obama…

Amy Hybels and Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) Conservative Anglicans on Thursday (June 19) said there is “no longer any hope for a unified” Anglican Communion just weeks before a crucial summit of Anglican bishops in England. Traditionalist Anglicans were meeting here ahead of the June 22-29 Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON)…

By Benedicta Cipolla c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) When Sen. Barack Obama turns to talking about faith on the campaign trail, he sometimes invokes the New Testament book of James and its admonition that “faith without works is dead.” As she competed for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton frequently did the same…
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