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The organization Women Against Abortion in Spain has collected more than 30,000 signatures against the government’s plan to liberalize abortion laws, reports Catholic News Agency.
The petition, which was started during the program “Afternoons With Christina” on the COPE Radio Network, is being supported by a number of well-known political and professional figures in Spain, including Flamenco singer Nina Pastori.
Cristina Lopez Schlichting, who hosts the show, underscored that there… >>
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AP - Cardinal John Henry Newman, an influential 19th-century Anglican theologian who converted to Roman Catholicism, moved a step closer to possible sainthood Friday after the pope approved a miracle attributed to his intercession.
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Chris Bryant, who once posed in his underpants on a gay dating website, said he wanted clergy to be “much more open” to the idea of treating civil partnership ceremonies like traditional marriages.
However, his suggestion goes directly against the rules of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church, which state that only the union of a man and a woman can be celebrated by a priest in church.
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Their concern is massive ad blitz on Christian and country-music stations across 10 states. The ads, funded by a left-leaning coalition, urge support for congressional legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions — by framing the issue as an urgent matter of Biblical morality.
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Paris, France (LifeNews.com) — Popular European singer Cheb Mami is on trial today in France and charged with forcing his girlfriend to have an abortion. Known as Prince of Rai, Mami, whose real name is Mohammed Khalifati was apprehended by Interpol agents after he fled to his native Algeria for more than two years.
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Montgomery, AL (LifeNews.com) — Alabama Attorney General Troy king wants a copy of the full video footage activist Lila Rose took showing Planned Parenthood stuff covering up a potential case of sexual abuse. The video also shows the abortion business telling her how she could violate the state’s parental consent law.
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Bill Moyers will moderate this panel and look at the issues - economic, political and cultural - facing the U.S., but through a lens of progressive Christianity, with what are considered more "traditional" themes that frame the collapse of the market as sinful and outlining economic policies that take into account our moral obligations to each other. This panel was part of a very successful iTunes accessible class presented by the Union Theological Seminary. Union Theological Seminary's President Serene Jones, Gary Dorrien and Cornel West share insights on American politics, policy and the economic crisis. (PRWeb Jul 3, 2009)
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Pastor Jose Elias Moran was preparing for an early Wednesday prayer service yesterday (July 1) at the Iglesia Profetica Peniel in Webster, Texas when he was informed that a member of his congregation had been stopped by the police.
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The website, ImAChristian.info is calling on Christians in America to join together in a public declaration of faith to recognize the freedom we share in this country to worship God.
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Vatican City, Jul 3, 2009 / 09:56 am (CNA).- Today at the Vatican, Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, archpriest of the papal basilica of St. Paul’s Outside-the-Walls, and Professor Ulderico Santamaria, director of the scientific laboratory of the Vatican Museums, presented their findings from the sarcophagus of St. Paul.
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Christians in the troubled Kandhamal jungles of India’s eastern Orissa state say strong action must be taken against Hindu extremists backing violence against them, in order to restore peace, reports Ecumenical News International.
“The situation is tense and people cannot return to their villages as the main culprits and kingpins are yet to be arrested,” Christian refugees told P. Chidambaram, the federal minister of home affairs, in a memorandum issued when he visited the troubled region on… >>
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A conservative military watchdog group is pleased that a military board has recommended that an Army National Guard officer be discharged after admitting he was homosexual.
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Friday, 3rd July 2009. 12:35pm By: Judy West. A leading British Baptist figure has warned that evangelicals are more divided than ever, and called for urgent efforts to foster unity.
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Three people have been killed in religious rioting in southern India Muslims and Hindus clash after dead pig thrown into mosque grounds More than a dozen people were injured in the clashes
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(AP) - BUCHAREST, Romania - The head of Romania’s Catholic Church on Thursday called on the president to intervene to stop the construction of a high-rise office building next to the Catholic cathedral. Bishop Ioan Robu says the 19-storied building is “hideous” and “illegal” because it has been built higher than its original plans. He said it is a risk to the foundations of the 19th century St. Joseph Cathedral. A court ruled June 25 that work on the building could resume….
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(AP) - VATICAN CITY - The restoration of Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize-a previously unknown self-portrait of the artist. Chief Vatican restorer Maurizio De Luca said Thursday that the face of a man on horseback in the artist’s “The Crucifixion of St. Peter” could well be the artist, though he told AP Television News that nobody will ever know “with absolute certainty that the face is Michelangelo’s.” The Vatican announced earlier…
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(AP) - WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he gets a prayer every morning on his BlackBerry. Obama told reporters from religious news organizations on Thursday that White House faith director Joshua DuBois sends him a morning devotional every day to his e-mail device. He says it’s a “wonderful practice” that started during the campaign. Tech-savvy Obama is the first president to use…
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WASHINGTON - In the July issue of Sojourners magazine, the Rev. Jim Wallis calls Jon Stewart of The Daily Show a prophet. “The Hebrew prophets often use humor, satire and truth-telling to get their message across, and I feel you do a combination of all three,” Wallis told Stewart. “I think you are a little like a Hebrew prophet after all.” Stewart, who deflates big egos for a living, would have none of it. “It may…
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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif., July 3 /Christian Newswire/ — A recent study found many megachurch goers are content to be spectators at church, and one house church leader sees a lesson there - but it isn’t what you might think.
A recent study by The Hartford Institute for Religion Research at Hartford Seminary and Leadership Network found that nearly half of megachurch attendees say they never volunteer at Source: .W Doers of the Word