AP - An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition barring women from the priesthood says it ordained three women on Sunday.
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AP - The head of the Anglican Communion said Sunday that the global fellowship faces "one of the most severe challenges" in its history, and he urged bishops at their once-a-decade Lambeth Conference to do the hard work of finding solutions.
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AP - An activist group hoping to pressure the Roman Catholic church into dropping its long-standing prohibition on women in the priesthood is planning an ordination ceremony for three women in Boston.
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Reuters - Pope Benedict, wrapping up his visit to
Australia, on Sunday urged a crowd of 400,000 young people to
beware the spreading "spiritual desert" that often accompanied
modern prosperity.
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AFP - Russia's highest Muslim council on Saturday issued a protest against a ban on some Islamic publications considered by the authorities to be "extremist."
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AP - The request befuddled Leah Daughtry. The experienced political hand in charge of planning next month's Democratic National Convention ? a self-described "black chick from Brooklyn" and ordained Pentecostal minister who keeps a Bible in her purse ? didn't know what to tell the atheists.
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AFP - White House hopeful Barack Obama is still struggling to convince some wary Jewish voters to close ranks behind his campaign despite their traditional support for Democratic candidates.
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Reuters - A groundbreaking interfaith conference
this week ended on a sour note, with a political spat between
Muslims and Jews that Saudi organizers wanted to avoid.
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