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Church Children Seized
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This undated photo provided by the The Lord Our Righteousness Church, shows church leader Wayne Bent. Bent was arrested Tuesday, May 6, 2008, on three charges of criminal sexual contact. Bent, who goes by the name of Michael Travesser, claims to be the Messiah. He allegedly acknowledged having sex with his followers, but there was no immediate information from state police on who the alleged victims are.

Published Friday, May. 09, 2008

Authorities say the leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico has been released from jail after his son posted his bond.

Published Friday, May. 09, 2008

Conservative legal advocates are recruiting pastors nationwide to defy an IRS ban on preaching about politicians, in a challenge they hope will abolish the restriction.

Published Thursday, May. 08, 2008

Author Brian McLaren is among the most influential American religious thinkers of the last decade.

Published Thursday, May. 08, 2008

Nearly two-dozen conservative Christian leaders have signed a letter to the Senate Finance Committee questioning an investigation into six large ministries that preach a gospel of prosperity.

Mideast Israel 60th Anniversary
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Fireworks are seen over the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 24, 2008. Israel will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state starting Wednesday night, May 7, 2008.

Published Thursday, May. 08, 2008

Israel staged its 60th birthday bash with fireworks, air force flyovers and a great sense of pride Thursday, but also with uncertainty about its future and doubts about prospects for peace with the Palestinians.

India China Tibet
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The Dalai Lama's special envoy Lodi Gyari addresses a press conference in Dharmsala, India, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials "disagreed more than we agreed" at weekend talks on how to move beyond the unrest in Tibet, Gyari said Thursday.

Published Thursday, May. 08, 2008

The Dalai Lama's envoys and Chinese officials disagreed more than they agreed at weekend talks on how to move beyond the unrest in Tibet, one of the Tibetan spiritual leader's representatives said Thursday.

Evangelical Manifesto
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Rich Mouw, president of Fuller Theological Seminary, joins other Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word "evangelical" has lost its religious meaning at a Washington news conference to discuss the release of their self-critical "Evangelical Manifesto" which condemns Christians on the right and left for "using faith" to express political views, Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

Published Wednesday, May. 07, 2008

Prominent evangelicals urged Christian conservatives Wednesday to support "an expansion of our concerns beyond single-issue politics," angering some leaders on the religious right who have been closely allied with the Republican Party.

MIDEAST ISRAEL 60TH ANNIVERSARY
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An Israeli police officer searches for evidence around a vandalized sign commemorating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, at the entrance to Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Unknown suspects threw red paint on parts of the sign.

Published Wednesday, May. 07, 2008

The highway leading to this Arab town in central Israel was lined with blue-and-white Israeli flags Wednesday to mark the country's 60th Independence Day. But no banners fluttered in Kufr Qassem itself.

Published Wednesday, May. 07, 2008

Every month, Phil Davis receives a deposit of American money in his Czech bank account. And every month, he sees that deposit shrink.

Church Children Seized
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This undated photo provided by the The Lord Our Righteousness Church, shows church leader Wayne Bent. Bent was arrested Tuesday, May 6, 2008, on three charges of criminal sexual contact. Bent, who goes by the name of Michael Travesser, claims to be the Messiah. He allegedly acknowledged having sex with his followers, but there was no immediate information from state police on who the alleged victims are.

Published Tuesday, May. 06, 2008

The leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico was arrested Tuesday and charged with felony sex crimes against children.

Published Monday, May. 05, 2008

A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women's prison.

Published Monday, May. 05, 2008

The China Philharmonic Orchestra plans to perform this week for Pope Benedict XVI, state media reported Monday, the latest indication that the often-strained ties between Beijing and the Vatican are improving.

Published Sunday, May. 04, 2008

Documents released Monday show how the British government tried to send thousands of Palestine-bound Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide back to postwar Germany without inflaming world opinion.

Published Sunday, May. 04, 2008

A Roman Catholic bishop said Sunday that the church has officially recognized that the Virgin Mary appeared to a 17th-century shepherd girl in the French Alps.

Bush
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President Bush waves as he boards Marine One after arriving at the Texas State Technical College Airfield, Friday May 2, 2008, in Waco, Texas. The president will spend the weekend at his ranch in nearby Crawford, Texas.

Published Friday, May. 02, 2008

Conservative Christian leaders who believe the word "evangelical" has lost its religious meaning plan to release a starkly self-critical document saying the movement has become too political and has diminished the Gospel through its approach to the culture wars.

Methodist Gay Wedding
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Julie Bruno, right, and her partner Sue Laurie kiss after being married across the street from where the United Methodist Church's general conference is meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, May 2, 2008. The lesbian couple held a wedding at a park across from the Fort Worth Convention Center, protesting the church's refusal to change its policy that gay relationships are "incompatible with Christian teaching."

Published Friday, May. 02, 2008

More than 200 Methodists attended a lesbian couple's commitment ceremony Friday in defiance of a vote to uphold a church law that says gay relationships are "incompatible with Christian teaching."

Oral Roberts Scandal
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In this Oct. 5, 2007 file photo, the prayer tower at Oral Roberts University looms over the campus in Tulsa, Okla. As the university prepares to hand out diplomas to its Class of 2008, many students are having second thoughts about staying at Oral Roberts after six months of scandal at the evangelical Christian university.

Published Friday, May. 02, 2008

As Oral Roberts University prepares to hand out diplomas to its Class of 2008, Anna Siebring, a junior, will be mailing out applications to transfer to another school. Siebring, a government major, is among many students having second thoughts about staying at Oral Roberts after six months of scandal at the evangelical Christian university.

TURKEY POPE GUNMAN
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This Jan 12, 2006 file photo shows Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981,as he leases a military recruitment center in Istanbul, Turkey. Agca has applied for Polish citizenship and wants to live in the late pontiff's country of birth when released from prison, his lawyer said Friday, May 2, 2008. The gunman, currently serving a prison term in Turkey for killing prominent journalist Abdi Ipekci, is due to be released in 2010.

Published Friday, May. 02, 2008

The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II is applying for Polish citizenship because he wants to live in the country of the late pontiff, whom he called his "spiritual brother."

Published Friday, May. 02, 2008

About two dozen black ministers from the Chicago area say they're behind Barack Obama despite his split from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Published Friday, May. 02, 2008

Bishop J. Douglas Wiley has just a tent for a church and a fraction of his congregants, more than 2 1/2 years after Hurricane Katrina.

Published Thursday, May. 01, 2008

Struggling to confront a worsening homicide rate, the mayor invited pastors and citizens to don burlap sacks and ashes in a sign of biblical repentance.

Published Thursday, May. 01, 2008

Whatever impressions Pope Benedict XVI took away from his long weekend in New York may influence a big, upcoming decision - picking a successor to Cardinal Edward Egan as archbishop.

Published Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2008

A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved a $37 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport and more than 150 people who say they were sexually abused by its priests.

Published Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2008

A rarely displayed segment of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be part of an exhibition for President Bush and other dignitaries attending Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations next month, a museum official said Wednesday.

CHURCH CHILDREN SEIZED
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This undated photo, supplied by the The Lord Our Righteousness Church, shows the group's leader Wayne Bent, 66, who is also identified on the church's Web site as Michael Travesser, left, and a follower at the church's compound, which they call Strong City, north of Clayton, N.M. New Mexico state police have removed three children from the church compound, following an April 22, 2008, investigation.

Published Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2008

State police have removed three children from an apocalyptic church whose leader claims to be the Messiah and acknowledges having sex with some of his followers.

Published Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2008

A license plate that would have become the first in the nation to prominently feature a religious symbol is unlikely to be on the road any time soon after state lawmakers did not include it in a bill Tuesday.

Published Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2008

The highest court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has found that a Northern California minister did not violate denominational law when she officiated at the weddings of two lesbian couples.

Published Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2008

A wide-ranging group of U.S. Jewish leaders plans to release a statement Wednesday urging Jews worldwide to boycott the Summer Olympics in Beijing, citing China's troubling record on human rights and Tibet.

Published Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2008

A machete-wielding man held sheriff's deputies at bay for two hours outside the Rev. Jimmy Swaggart's headquarters on Tuesday before officers broke into his truck and arrested him.

Giuliani Abortion
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In this Saturday, April 19, 2008 photo, Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani waits to receive communion in St. Patrick's Cathedral during a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI. New York Cardinal Edward Egan said Monday, April 29, 2008, that Giuliani should not have received Holy Communion during the pope's visit because he supports abortion rights.

Published Monday, Apr. 28, 2008

Rudy Giuliani should not have received Holy Communion during the pope's visit because the former presidential candidate supports abortion rights, New York Cardinal Edward Egan said Monday.

Prayer Death
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Madeline Kara Neumann, of Weston, Wis., is shown working on chalk art last summer during downtown Wausau's Chalk Fest. Neumann died Sunday, March 23, 2008, after her parents prayed for healing rather than getting medical help for a treatable form of diabetes. Dale and Leilani Neumann were charged Monday with second-degree reckless homicide.

Published Monday, Apr. 28, 2008

Two parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes were charged Monday with second-degree reckless homicide.

Obama Pastor
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Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ and the former pastor of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., prepares to addresses a breakfast gathering at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2008.

Published Monday, Apr. 28, 2008

In a defiant appearance before the Washington media, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright said Monday that criticism surrounding his fiery sermons is an attack on the black church and he rejected those who have labeled him unpatriotic.


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