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10 minutes with … Linda Mobley

Nancy Haught | Nov 23, 2010

(RNS) In this season of giving thanks and counting blessings, Linda Mobley of Vancouver, Wash., says she's been blessed by breast cancer. Twice. She thought she'd beaten the disease eight years ago. But soon after she'd self-published her book, "Blessed with Cancer," in July, Mobley was told the can...
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Study calls for sensitivity in Muslims’ medical care

Whitney Jones | Nov 10, 2010

(RNS) U.S. doctors need to take religious values into account while providing health care, especially when the patient is a Muslim woman, according to a new study in the Journal of Medical Ethics. Dr. Aasim Padela, the study's lead author and a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Mi...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup

Kevin Eckstrom | Nov 1, 2010

More than 40 worshippers at a Baghdad Catholic church were killed when insurgents stormed the church Sunday night; U.S. military officials said the subsequent raid by Iraqi commandos that killed the hijackers demonstrates the Iraqis' ability to fight for themselves. B16 denounced the attack as "fero...
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COMMENTARY: Thrift store saints

Cathleen Falsani | Oct 6, 2010

(RNS) What I actually know about God might, on a good day, fit on a quarter of the head of a pin compared to the fullness of God's true hugeness. That said, there are a couple of things about the Almighty that I'm pretty certain are true. God's grace is always staggering and often surprising. And Go...
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Anti-abortion `Pro-Life Freedom Ride’ turned away from King’s tomb

Jeremy Gray / The Birmingham News | Jul 26, 2010

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) Invoking the memory of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, anti-abortion clergy members and their supporters on Saturday (July 24) embarked on a "Pro-Life Freedom Ride" but were turned away from King's tomb in Atlanta. The group, organized by New Yor...
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ACLU wants protection for women at religious hospitals

Ankita Rao | Jul 1, 2010

(RNS) After a controversial abortion performed at a Catholic hospital in Phoenix, the American Civil Liberties Union is asking federal officials to protect "emergency reproductive care" at religiously affiliated hospitals. The ACLU called on the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to in...
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Thursday’s roundup

Kevin Eckstrom | Jul 1, 2010

Secular groups are getting a little antsy with President Obama's slow pace of reform on the White House's faith-based office. Outspoken atheist Christopher Hitchens says he has cancer of the esophagus and cancelled his book tour. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan carried forth (someone get her an ed...
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Demographics race colors Israel’s abortion debate

Jason Ma | Jun 4, 2010

JERUSALEM (RNS) Inside an office about the size of a three-bedroom apartment, the walls are covered with pictures of babies and letters from grateful mothers. In a warehouse a few blocks away, three workers pack boxes with essentials -- diapers, baby wipes, formula, matzo for Passover in the spring...
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COMMENTARY: What started on Mt. Sinai didn’t end there

A. James Rudin | May 13, 2010

(RNS) The story of the two-day Jewish festival of Shavuot -- beginning this year at sundown on Tuesday (May 18) is well known, starting with a ragtag group of Israelites who had just escaped slavery in Pharaoh's Egypt. The ancient Israelites, under Moses' leadership, weren't yet ready for prime time...
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D.A. reaches out to families in faith-healing church

Steve Mayes / The Oregonian | Apr 23, 2010

OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) District Attorney John Foote kept his promise to reach out to an Oregon City church whose members have been prosecuted for failing to provide adequate medical care for their children. Foote sent a letter to 415 families who belong to the Followers of Christ Church. The church...
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