In the wake of the horrific tornado that devastated a town outside of Oklahoma City, Twitter responded with prayers for the victims and hope for…
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Well, this isn’t the typical path to a college scholarship. North Carolina high school senior David Cole Withrow was offered a scholarship to Liberty University…
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After Sunday’s Pentecost Mass, Pope Francis approached the children with disabilities who attended the Mass. He put both his hands on top of the head…
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By Trevor Grundy Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly on Monday (May 20) passed a historic vote to allow…
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Cardinal Sean O’Malley skipped Boston College’s commencement today because of the involvement of Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion.A few dozen protesters, some playing…
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"The American Bible Challenge" is wrapping up its second season (finale airs Thurs., May 23, 9 p.m. ET on GSN) with the final three teams…
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NEW YORK — A New York Police Department detective told a federal judge that he’s seen no evidence that one of his informants brought up…
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WASHINGTON — The State Department appointed a special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism Monday as a new report documents a global increase in incidents…
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A Protestant pastor in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev, was arrested on criminal charges of harming health on 17 May, Forum 18 News Service has learned. On 19 May he was ordered to be held for two months’ detention pre-trial detent…
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ATLANTA — A national atheist group said Monday that it will donate its literature for use in cabins and lodges in Georgia’s state parks after…
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ROME (Reuters) – A man climbed onto a ledge on the dome of St Peter’s Basilica on Monday and unfurled a banner protesting against a…
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Chavie Lieber (“Tablet,” May 14, 2013)
While Jews study a number of religious books—from the Talmud to the Shulchan Aruch—the text that provides the religion’s very foundation is the Torah. And the version of the Torah most commonly studied by Jews is known as the Masoretic text, the most authoritative Hebrew version of the Torah.
But it is not the only one.
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Sarah Posner (“The National Memo,” May 20, 2013)
Even before the ink was dry on the Treasury Department Inspector General’s report on the IRS, Franklin Graham, son of evangelical icon Billy Graham, wrote a letter to President Obama, demanding that the president “take some immediate action to reassure Americans we are not in a new chapter of America’s history—repressive government rule.
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(Reuters, May 20, 2013)
Officials reported that claim 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the insurgency in the northeast.
In their biggest offensive since the insurgency began in 2009, Nigerian forces a…
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John Blake (“CNN,” May 19, 2013)
“God, help me!”
Eben Alexander shouted and flailed as hospital orderlies tried to hold him in place. But no one could stop his violent seizures, and the 54-year-old neurosurgeon went limp as his horrified wife looked on.
That moment could have been the end. But Alexander says it was just the beginning.
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