By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor (CNN) – For six days, First Baptist Church in Moore, Oklahoma, provided food and shelter to victims of Monday’s deadly tornado. On the seventh day, it offers another scarce resource: solace. “Simply put, we are urging people to draw near to the Lord and near to each other,” […]
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A ghostly figure has stunned one family, in Kirtland, Ohio, appearing in a family photograph behind their daughter, who had been battling leukemia at the…
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JERUSALEM — Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are up for sale – in tiny pieces. Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world’s…
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Do gay employees deserve to be fired for lowering the "moral standards" of employers? That’s the suggestion made by conservative Christian radio host Linda Harvey,…
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A group of bikers, the Patriot Guard Riders, stood guard yesterday against Westboro Baptist protestors who threatened to picket the funeral of 9-year-old Moore, Okla….
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The seven of us stood in the parking lot of the office building across the street, and Joe opened the zippered cover of his three-ring binder full of painstakingly collected photographs of the old neighborhood gathered for the exhibition. As he began …
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By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Now that Boy Scout delegates have taken their long-awaited vote and permitted openly gay Scouts, will there…
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By Sarah Pulliam Bailey Religion News Service (RNS) Several leading evangelical pastors and authors have come to the defense of a pastor accused in a…
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Who: Jeremy Affeldt Current Gig: Relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants Years in the Bay Area: Four Neighborhood: East Bay When Jeremy Affeldt started…
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Michael Gryboski (“The Christian Post,” May 23, 2013)
One of the largest Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations in the United States is presently weighing the possibility of leaving the denomination due to theological differences.
First Presbyterian Church of Houston, founded in the early nineteenth century and with an estimated 3,600 members, voted earlier this year to enter a discernment process over the possibility of seeking dismissal.
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Sarah Pulliam Bailey (“RNS,” May 23, 2013)
Oklahoma’s devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.
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Jennifer Glasse (“Al Jazeera,” May 20, 2013)
Mes Aynak, Afghanistan – Ruins dot each hilltop in mountainous Mes Aynak, an hour’s drive south of the capital Kabul. Buddhist monasteries stood here for hundreds of years, and Afghan workers under the supervision of archaeologists are racing to uncover remnants of the past.
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(“Hurriyet Daily News,” May 24, 2013)
An Istanbul court has sentenced Turkish-Armenian writer Sevan Nişanyan to 58 weeks in prison for an alleged insult to the Prophet Muhammad in a blog post.
The prosecutor had been seeking one and a half years of jail time for Nişanyan on charges of “insulting the religious beliefs held by a section of the society.
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(“Euro News,” May 24, 2013)
Gunmen have been seen prowling through a Sunni district of the Lebanese city of Tripoli after fighting between factions supporting rival groups in neighbouring Syria’s civil war.
Five people were killed and more than 50 wounded on Thursday night.
Fears are growing the fighting could reignite Lebanon’s own 15-year-long civil conflict.
“The seeds of war exist in Lebanon.
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Mohammed Zaatari (“The Daily Star,” May 24, 2013)
Sidon, Lebanon – The vegetable vendor in Sidon’s Taamir neighborhood only recently discovered that his neighbor Abu Ahmad Masri is a Shiite. “I swear to God that I only recently learned that he is a Shiite,” he said.
But the sect of Masri, who usually defeats the vendor when playing cards, will not affect ties between the two, the latter said.
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