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Jewish Group Gives Passover Cheer for Beck’s Exit
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Beliefnet News Editor
(RNS) A Jewish organization is celebrating Passover two weeks early, proclaiming freedom from Glenn Beck’s television show. Jewish Funds for Justice, a social advocacy nonprofit, has taken credit for the polarizing personality’s pending exit from Fox News. The group waged a yearlong campaign of petitions and newspaper ads complaining to Fox owner Rupert Murdoch about…
Vatican Paper Praises Fertility Ethics of Films
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Beliefnet News Editor
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The official Vatican newspaper has praised two recent Hollywood movies for showing the ethical downsides of sperm donation. In the lead article in the Saturday (April 9) edition of L’Osservatore Romano, Carlo Bellieni writes in When Cinema Tells the Truth that the movies, both released in 2010, reflect “many doubts and misgivings”…
Evangelist Testifies in Ex-Bodyguard’s Murder Trial
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Beliefnet News Editor
WATERLOO, Ill. (RNS) Televangelist Joyce Meyer said Wednesday (April 6) she testified “honestly and truthfully” in a closed pretrial deposition in the murder trial of her former bodyguard, Christopher Coleman. But Meyer said she would honor a request not to reveal the substance of what was said. The testimony was originally slated to be public,…
Feature: Skeletons in the Catholic Church’s Closet
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Beliefnet News Editor
(RNS) In its new Sunday night series, The Borgias, Showtime has found the magic combination for ultimate crowd appeal in a scintillating soap opera about a bad-boy pope. The Borgias follows the quasi-historic story of the Spanish noble family who, with the ascent of Rodrigo Borgia as Pope Alexander VI in 1492, brought a nighttime-television-style…
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