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Deepti Hajela and Jennifer Dobner, "Jewish group wants Mormons to stop proxy baptisms," washingtonpost.com (November 10, 2008)
Via the AP. An advocacy group for Holocaust survivors is mounting a public relations campaign against the inclusion in a LDS genealogical database the names of Jews killed in the Holocaus...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/10/AR2008111001416.html?referre...

FOXNews.com - Atheists Plan Anti-God Ad Campaign on Buses - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News
An ad hoc group of British atheists has mounted a fundraising campaign to put billboards on London buses reading: "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." Um... g...
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443705,00.html

Louis Sahagun, "Armenian clergy worldwide embark on a quest to collect holy oil," Los Angeles Times (Oct. 11, 2008)
A story about the worldwide distribution of "muron," a scented oil believed to have extraordinary spiritual properties.
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs11-2008oct11,0,2307697.story

Foreclosures: Did God Want You to Get That Mortgage? - TIME
The new popularity of the "Prosperity gospel" may well have fuelled the current financial collapse. In a side note -- Anthea Butler sure seems to be in the news a lot lately.
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http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1847053,00.html?cnn=yes

Mormons now issue in gay vows
People campaigning against a ballot initiative on amending the Arizona state constitution to ban same-sex marriage have begun claiming that support for the measure is being driven forward...
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http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/257999

Lyndsay Moss, "Pope: Millions are losing their religion and declaring God is dead," The Scotsman (Oct. 6, 2008)
Interesting how Benedict unproblematically draws this connection between religious belief and national identity. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fnews.scotsman....
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http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Pope-Millions-are-losing-.4560395.jp

Catechism Edit 'Troubling,' Jewish Leaders Say - washingtonpost.com
This sentence will shortly be cut from the Roman Catholic catechism: "Thus the covenant that God made with the Jewish people through Moses remains eternally valid for them." Annotated li...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203077.html?hpid=se...

Steve Padilla, "Former New York Times reporter looks at growth of interfaith movements," Los Angeles Times (Aug. 30, 2008) - on Gustav Niebuhr
Niebuhr (the grandson of the late H. Richard Niebuhr and grandnephew of Reinhold) now teaches at Syracuse. Sounds a little fluffy to me.
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs30-2008aug30,0,189881,full.story

Tony Perry, "Symbolism of the cross widens with judge's ruling in Mt. Soledad case," Los Angeles Times (Sept. 13, 2008)
From the page: "Two years ago, the contentious cross atop the San Diego mountain was deemed part of a war memorial. A recent judicial opinion supports that, saying crosses have significan...
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http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-beliefs13-2008sep13,0,7595462,full.story

Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE | Education | The Guardian
Personally, I think the humanists are way off base here, despite the fact that I'm generally sympathetic to humanist organizations. "Humanism" (the concept being, for one thing, a contemp...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/sep/13/gcses.religion?gusrc=rss

Keep talking or face terrible future, religion summit told - 09 Sep 2008 - Religion and beliefs news - NZ Herald
One authority on interreligious dialogue attests to the concrete social importance for maintaining communication between different faith communities.
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301

Eleven dead in Congo football riot after use of 'witchcraft' - Telegraph
"Nyuki football club was losing to its local rivals Socozaki in Sunday's game when the club's goalkeeper decided to intervene. Radio Okapi, a local broadcaster funded by the United Nation...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/democraticrepublicofcongo/296...