Topic: The Associated Press
Pope in Christmas speech tells Catholics in China to courageously face limits on freedomPope Benedict XVI in his Christmas Day message is urging Catholics in China to courageously face limits on religious freedom and conscience.Benedict is using his traditional holiday speech, delivered ...
Plan for Christian church in hometown of Confucius draws protest from Chinese scholarsChina's officially atheist government wants to build a Christian church in the hometown of Confucius to help foster a relationship between an ancient philosophy and the country's fastest-growing religion. But ...
Correction: Iran Women's Sports storyIn a story Dec. 6 about a senior Muslim cleric denouncing the participation of Iranian women in the Asian Games, The Associated Press misidentified the cleric. He is Grand Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi Golpayegani, not his late brother Grand ...
Pope's words on condoms received well by some believers in Americas, though pitfalls foreseenSome Catholic believers in the Americas greeted Pope Benedict XVI's comments on condoms as a sign that the church was stepping into the modern debate in the fight against ...
One of the new Mashair Railway light-rail trains runs in Mecca, Saudia Arabia, the holiest city of Islam, in early November. The train is open only to Saudi Arabians and other Persian Gulf-state nationals until the system becomes fully operational next year, ...
Evangelical leader Cameron Strang has been noted as representing a new strain of Evangelical Christianity . A new generation spreads the word (June 23, 2004) Associated Press: Young evangelical backs out of convention prayer (August 22, 2008) On August 21 , 2008 ...
The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization based on the philosophy of Humanism . In November 2008, the organization drew criticism from Christian groups over a holiday ad campaign proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Humanist holiday ads say just ...
Amid questions about lax security, mourners gathered in Iraq yesteday to bury the victims of Sunday's (Oct. 31) Islamic extremist assault on a Syrian Catholic Church in Baghdad, one of the bloodiest attacks on the country's dwindling Christian community. " Casmoussa, who ...
APNewsBreak: 41% of non-Christian Air Force Academy cadets report unwanted proselytizingAn Air Force Academy survey found that 41 percent of cadets who identified themselves as non-Christian said they were subjected to unwanted proselytizing at least once or twice last year.Overall, 19 percent ...
"But Prime Minister Max Bellerive also told The Associated Press his country is open to having the Americans go before courts in the United States because his own nation's judicial system was DEVASTATED by the Jan. 12 earthquake". Can a "crippled government" ...
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