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New Orleans, La., Feb 6, 2010 / 08:04 am (CNA).- As the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts prepare to lock horns in the Super Bowl, CNA spoke with the Archdiocese of New Orleans about the Saints and discovered that the team has a significant Catholic history as well as a strong presence in the local Catholic community.
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James Walton reviews The Bible: a History (Channel 4), in which Conservative
MP Ann Widdecombe explores the Ten Commandments.
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As a young black girl growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s and ’40s, Alzina Booker learned many lessons on the importance of family, faith and standing up to racism. Her father, Elmo, was a Baptist pastor who opened an elementary school for black children who otherwise wouldn’t have received an education in Hammond, La. The family was poor, but Elmo put together enough money to buy a bus for the older children so they could get to a high school 5 miles away without having to walk. Alzina and her siblings would see the white kids’ bus pass them by. Sometimes, the white children would spit and utter slurs. She clung to her family, and her parents taught her to cling to her church. Even…
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Long before Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’Neal dominated men’s professional basketball, Jewish basketball teams were all the rage in the early 20th century. A new documentary called “First Basket” takes a look at this piece of basketball history, and how it shaped the start of the NBA. Host Michel Martin speaks with the film’s director David Vyorst.
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — The Britain-based abortion business Marie Stopes International announced today that it did 920,000 abortions in 43 countries in 2009. The British equivalent of Planned Parenthood said it experienced the largest annual growth in the organization’s 33-year history, according to the figures it released today.
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Secular British roll out unwelcome mat for Pope
USA Today When Pope Benedict XVI announced his 2008 US visit, Americans appeared delirious and clamored for their city to be on the itinerary. Not so Britain. … Church has right to bring Gospel values to public debate, pope saysCatholic San Francisco Lessons from history for the popeThe Guardian The Anglican Church could learn from the Pope's strong message on equality lawTelegraph.co.uk Aberdeen Press and Journal -The Paisley Daily Express -Scotsman all 48 news articles » |
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The Conservative MP on her faith and the message of her Channel 4 documentary
Moses and the Law, part of The Bible: a History series.
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TOKYO (UCAN) — For the twelfth year in a row, the number of people who committed suicide in Japan has topped 30,000. According to statistics released by the National Police Agency on January 26, a total of 32,753 people took their own lives in 2009. This was the fifth highest toll in history, an increase [...]
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Salt Lake City, USA – The blockbuster movie "Avatar" may feature the most remarkable tree in Hollywood history. The Tree of Souls almost steals the scenes where it appears.
But then trees have always been a powerful and attractive spiritual symbol. And the nice thing is, to locate one, you need only look in your own backyard. Trees are used extensively in Christianity and other religions.
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The Church of England stands ready to lose about $78 million invested in the largest real estate deal in American history after Tishman Speyer Properties announced it was turning over two Manhattan apartment complexes to creditors.
Tishman Speyer partnered with BlackRock Realty in 2006 to complete the $5.4 billion purchase of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village on Manhattan’s East River. The deal has since lost $3.5 million and the firm decided to surrender the properties after falling behind on loan repayments, according to reports.
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AFP – Almost seven decades since Nazi Germany decimated Poland’s Jews in death camps like the notorious Auschwitz, Europe’s former Jewish heartland is reconnecting with a lost part of its identity.
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I’ve been bothered by some of the news headlines, editorials and other reactions to Pat Roberson’s recent comment that Haiti’s tragic earthquake calamity is connected with their long history of demonic worship. There seems to be a disagreement about whether Robertson has his facts right about a pact with the devil, but there is no denying the demon worship that inundates this tiny nation. (Also see here).
My concern is that some people seem to use a small slice of Biblical truth to build a theology not only of “natural” disasters but of the way Christians are supposed to react.
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The 18-7 vote came after many senators, conscious that they may be making history, described civil unions as part of the same long path toward equality as voting rights were for women and civil rights were for blacks.
The bill would give both same-sex and heterosexual couples the ability to enter into civil unions and have the same rights, benefits and responsibilities as marriage under state law.
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Bookies William Hill have reported one of the biggest gambles in Celebrity Big Brother betting history with an astonishing £54,000 already gambled on Stephen Baldwin to be evicted from the Big BRother House. As a result, the bookies have slashed the
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Close to 2000 Coptic Christrians have marched in Sydney’s CBD today to protest against violence in Egypt. They gathered in Martin Place to demonstrate against what they say is a long history of attrocities committed against christians in Egypt. Peter
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HISTORY WAS made in the chapel at Trinity College yesterday when for the first time the Catholic and Church of Ireland archbishops of Dublin gave a joint blessing at the launch of their latest ecumenical initiative. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and
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More than 40 people were killed in a Muslim-Christian clash this past weekend in a central Nigerian city with a history of volatile relations between the two faith communities.
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In a synagogue visit haunted by history, Pope Benedict XVI and Jewish leaders sparred Sunday over the record of the World War II-era pope, Pius XII, during the Holocaust and agreed on the need to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations.
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Pope Benedict thanks CDF for bioethics contributions
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God as politics in Malaysia
Asia Times Online UMNO's politicization of ethnicity and religion has a long history. Many feel those tactics have paved the way for the recent senseless attacks against at … The wave of anti-Christian violenceThe Guardian Malaysian bishops' meeting marked by worry over church attacksThe Pilot Compromising on 'Allah' Ashvin RajMalaysia Kini The Sikh Times, UK -Belleville News Democrat -UNLV The Rebel Yell all 394 news articles » |