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Associated Press – March 18, 2008 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A group of pharmacists asked the Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday to throw out a rule that forces them to dispense emergency contraception despite moral objections, claiming it amounts to illegal coercion. Gov. Rod Blagojevich issued the rule in 2005, prohibiting pharmacies from turning away women…

Associated Press – March 19, 2008 DHARMSALA, India – The Dalai Lama asked Tibetan activists to end their confrontational march to Tibet on Wednesday while exiles pressed ahead with peaceful protests in northern India and New Delhi. The Tibetan spiritual and political leader met with members of the five groups organizing the march to Lhasa,…

Associated Press Jerusalem – Germany’s chancellor told Israel’s parliament Tuesday that Germans are filled with shame over the Nazi Holocaust and that she bows before the victims. Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered the speech in German on the last day of an Israel visit marked by extraordinary warmth. Israel has given a red carpet welcome to…

Associated Press Washington – Democratic Sen. Barack Obama waded into America’s troubled racial history Tuesday, seeking in his most revealing campaign remarks on race to stem accumulating political damage done by the words of his former pastor. Obama confronted what he called “incendiary language” by Rev. Jeremiah Wright that presented a “profoundly distorted view” of…

Associated Press Dharmsala, India – The Dalai Lama threatened Tuesday to step down as leader of Tibet’s government in exile if violence committed by Tibetans in his homeland spirals out of control. The Tibetan spiritual leader also sharply rejected accusations by China that he orchestrated last week’s demonstrations in Tibet – and the violence that…

By Omar Sacirbey c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In recent years, conservative Christians have emerged as some of the most vocal supporters of the state of Israel — support that many Jewish groups have welcomed at a time when they feel Israel is under siege. One of the loudest voices has been John Hagee,…

Associated Press – March 17, 2008 BEIJING – China said Monday it would fight to protect its territorial right over Tibet as a deadline for anti-Chinese protesters to turn themselves in and receive leniency passed with no apparent surrenders or arrests. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao blamed last week’s violence in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa,…

Associated Press – March 17, 2008 VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI urged Iraqi Christians on Monday to find the strength to keep working for a peaceful future after the death of the kidnapped Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. Benedict celebrated a memorial Mass in a Vatican chapel in honor of Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho.…

By ADELLE M. BANKS c. 2008 Religion News Service WASHINGTON — The outgoing pastor of Sen. Barack Obama’s black megachurch in Chicago has come under fire for sermons that some have called racist, offensive, even dangerous. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has called the federal government the “U.S. of K.K.K. A.” Just after the 9/11 terrorist…

Associated Press – March 14, 2008 WARSAW, Poland – A new book released Friday presents testimony from the archives of the late Pope John Paul II’s beatification process, offering a look into how the Polish-born pontiff touched the lives of those around the world. “Cuda,” or “Miracles,” contains 150 written testimonies that people from around…
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