File illustration shows parishoners are reflected in a Communion chalice during Sunday Mass at a Catholic Church. Three women are to be ordained as priests Sunday here in one of American's most Catholic cities, but they will face automatic excommunication by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)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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about one-quarter of the invited bishops ? mostly theological conservatives from Africa ? are not attending. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)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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A World Youth Day pilgrim camping out gestures before the final mass led by Pope Benedict XVI at Randwick horse racing track in Sydney July 20, 2008. REUTERS/Will BurgessReuters - 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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Leah Daughtry, Chief Executive Officer of the Democratic National Convention, poses for a portrait with the Colorado Capitol building in the background Monday, July 14, 2008 in Denver.  In charge of planning next month's Democratic convention, Daughtry is a self-described 'black chick from Brooklyn' and ordained Pentecostal minister who keeps a Bible in her purse. She is among a growing number of Democrats of faith showing her party how to get religion (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)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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A supporter of US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama wears a supporting kippah or yarmulke during a Jewish community meeting at Congregation Rodeph Shalom Synagogue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in April 2008. Obama is still struggling to convince some wary Jewish voters to close ranks behind his campaign despite their traditional support for Democratic candidates.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)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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