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President Obama’s National Day of Prayer proclamation
Americans have long turned to prayer both in times of joy and times of sorrow. On their voyage to the New World, the earliest settlers prayed that they would “rejoice together, mourn together, labor, and suffer together, ...
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Prominent Indian leaders murdered in South America
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries PASADENA, CA (ANS) – David Andrés Kietzman, the Executive Director of Latin American Indian Ministries (LAIM), has told the ASSIST News Service of the tragic killing of two Indi...
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Formation Toolbox: Gravity is real
Democracy has no place in the real world.Don't get me wrong. I'm all for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But take gravity, for example. Gravity isn't democratic. We all just... fall.
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Obama stresses unity in inaugural speech
U.S. President Barack Obama is calling for united action by a divided America to address a host of domestic problems as he starts his second term in the White House.
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Fewer Americans view homosexuality as a sin
Americans’ acceptance of gays and lesbians is continuing to grow, with a new poll showing that just over a third of Americans view homosexuality as a sin, down from 44 percent a year earlier.
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America goes back to church en masse
On Sept. 16, in the largest grassroots movement of its kind, 13,152 congregations of various denominations, styles and theologies united in a single cause to invite an estimated 7.5 million friends, family, neighbors and cowork...
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Cardinal Dolan – and Sister Simone Campbell – to bless the Democratic convention
In a move that could recast the reigning political narrative about the Catholic bishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan has accepted an invitation to deliver the closing benediction at the Democratic National Convention, a week after h...
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Conservative groups release survey on religious hostility
Two conservative groups have released a “Survey of Religious Hostility in America,” which seeks to draw attention to a “relentless onslaught” against religious people and institutions.
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Orthodox Church in America head Metropolitan Jonah dismissed over alleged rape cover-up
The Orthodox Church in America has announced that it forced its controversial leader, Metropolitan Jonah, to resign earlier this month chiefly because he had failed to remove a priest accused of rape.
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Evangelical author sees a ‘Mormonizing of America’
Stephen Mansfield, an evangelical author who has written widely about the faith of politicians, turns his attention to Mormons in his latest book, “The Mormonizing of America.”