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By Jonathan Rubin Religion News Service Washington – The head of the country’s largest Jewish movement called prominent Texas pastor John Hagee an “extremist” and urged fellow rabbis to shun his high-profile support of Israel. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, head of the Union for Reform Judaism, denounced Hagee, a national evangelical leader, televangelist and head and…

Associated Press Washington – Congress marked the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s death Thursday with tributes by House and Senate leaders and words of remembrance by lawmakers who once worked alongside the civil rights leader. “Because of the leadership of this man we rose up out of fear and became willing to put…

Associated Press New York – During his first papal trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI will visit a synagogue led by a rabbi who survived the Holocaust, U.S. bishops said Thursday. Benedict will make a brief stop April 18 at Manhattan’s Park East Synagogue, whose leader, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, lived under Nazi occupation…

By Britanni Hamm 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Lisa Keister has scanned the Bible and found nearly 2,000 verses in the New Testament that touch on the topic of money. It’s those very verses that may be keeping many conservative Protestants from building up long-term wealth, she says. Jesus warned his followers not to “store…

By Jessica Bruder Religion News Service OREGON CITY, Ore. — A couple who tried to heal their dying daughter with prayer walked hand in hand into a crowded courtroom Monday and pleaded not guilty to charges of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment. Carl Brent Worthington, 28, and Raylene Marie Worthington, 25, are the first parents prosecuted…

United Press International – April 2, 2008 VATICAN CITY, Apr 2, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) — Speculation regarding the sainthood of the Pope John Paul II escalated Wednesday as Pope Benedict XVI attributed the late pontiff with “supernatural qualities.” Eulogizing at a mass commemorating the third anniversary of John Paul’s death, Benedict said ”among his…

Associated Press – April 1, 2008 NEW YORK – Ted Turner formed a $200 million partnership Tuesday with Lutherans and Methodists to fight malaria, apologizing for his past criticism of religion as he announced the effort. Turner, 69, said he had only made a few disparaging comments a long time ago and that he is…

Associated Press – March 31, 2008 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has agreed to consider a free speech case in which a church wants to place a religious monument in a park. Officials in Pleasant Grove City, Utah, asked the court to step into the lawsuit brought by the religious group known as Summum, saying…

By Greg Garrison and Val Walton 2008 Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — They were pastors and civil rights leaders who broke the back of unjust segregation laws and set in motion the transformation of America into a more racially tolerant nation. Forty years after the violent death of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.…

Associated Press – March 31, 2008 VATICAN CITY – The church official spearheading the cause to make Pope John Paul II a saint said Monday he has finished a roughly 2,000-page draft of a report supporting the late pontiff’s canonization. Two days before the Vatican marks the third anniversary of John Paul’s death, Monsignor Slawomir…
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