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Associated Press – May 28, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO – California officials are telling county clerks that they can start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17. The state Office of Vital Records says it chose June 17 because the state Supreme Court has until the end of business on June 16 to decide…

By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service A prominent liberal Episcopal church in Pasadena, Calif., says it will allow gay and lesbian couples to marry after the state’s Supreme Court opened civil marriage to same-sex couples starting next month. The move by All Saints Episcopal Church is likely to fan tensions within the U.S. church and…

Associated Press Vatican City – The Vatican has reopened the largest and most luxurious of the pagan tombs in the necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica after nearly a year of restoration work. The Valeri Mausoleum, which was unveiled to media on Tuesday, was built by a family of former slaves at the beginning of the…

Associated Press Hormigueros, Puerto Rico – Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday offered a spiritual defense for continuing her presidential campaign, as she sought to put to rest the uproar over her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. Speaking to a full congregation at the Pabellon de la Victoria evangelical church, Clinton spoke in…

By Daniel Burke c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) When many Americans think of Tibetan Buddhism, one man comes to mind: the Dalai Lama. The jet-setting, best-selling, Nobel Prize-winning 72-year-old monk has become the most recognizable Tibetan in the world. But another charismatic Tibetan monk, the Karmapa Lama, 22, may be the face of Tibet’s…

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News – May 23, 2008 May 23–For three years and three months, Ali Hussain has waited to become a U.S. citizen. On Thursday, his wait was over — but not before he sued the federal government. In February, Hussain and 24 other Muslims joined a statewide lawsuit against Citizenship and Immigration Services…

By Benedicta Cipolla c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK — After the memorial Mass on Oct. 26, 2001, for her son Christian, a probationary firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Sally Regenhard didn’t proceed to a cemetery. There was no cemetery because there was no body. Christian’s…

By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service Five years ago, New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson made headlines by becoming the first openly gay bishop elected in the Episcopal Church or in the wider Anglican Communion. Robinson is making headlines again — this time for his upcoming civil union ceremony with his partner of 20 years,…

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) London (dpa) – British police are looking for suspected souvenir-hunters who used a hammer and a screwdriver to vandalize the world-famous stone circle of Stonehenge, south-west Britain. The incident, which occurred in the late evening of May 15, was the first atc of vandalism at the site, near Salisbury, in decades, police…

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Ottumwa – Though one rider called the event a “show of unity,” the sound of 14 closely packed motorcycles was more like a “roar of unity.” The Jewish bikers said they don’t want others to forget the Holocaust — or to see others go through one. “This is about getting the…
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