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Published Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009

The Rev. Peter Morales of Colorado has been elected as the first Latino president of the Unitarian Universalist Association.

Religion Today
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FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2006 file photo, Ingrid Mattson, newly elected president of the Islamic Society of North America smiles while talking to Mohamed Rajabally, a member of the ISNA executive committee during a press conference before at the opening of the 43rd annual ISNA convention in Rosemont, Ill.

Published Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009

Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then suddenly pulled back.

Published Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

Voices of Faith: How can we keep thinking good when so much bad is happening?

Published Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

Naysayers told Jonny Nelson that he was being too ambitious when he suggested starting a skateboard-park ministry. After all, he was only 16.

The New ORU
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This April 3, 2009 photo provided by Oral Roberts University shows Mark Rutland. He becomes the first person to lead the school without the surname of Roberts.

Published Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

Workers are toiling in the thick summer heat, trying to bring the campus of Oral Roberts University into the current century.

Published Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

The top five destinations for Mandaean refugees in the United States from 2002 through June 24, 2009:

Published Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

The top five destinations for Mandaean refugees in the United States from 2002 through June 24, 2009:

Published Wednesday, Jul. 01, 2009

When the bride and groom arrive at the Mandaean Association, the Middle Eastern salad is ready and flower petals are lightly strewn across the floor.

Published Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009

The Vatican found enough evidence of a miracle in the survival of Chase Kear of Colwich, Kan., that it intends to keep studying his survival, with an eye toward declaring it an official miracle, church officials say.

Published Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009

Most states have child abuse laws allowing some religious exemptions for parents who shun medicine for their sick children, but a few recent cases highlight thorny legal issues for parents following less-recognized faiths.

ITALY POPE st.  paul
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Pope Benedict XVI, at center, arrives with other prelates for a solemn vespers service for St. Peter and St. Paul, in St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica, in Rome, Sunday, June 28, 2009. The pontiff said recent scientific tests on what are believed to be the remains of the Apostle Paul "seem to conclude" that they do indeed belong to the Roman Catholic saint.

Published Sunday, Jun. 28, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI signed his latest encyclical Monday, a text on ways to make globalization more attentive to meeting the needs of the poor amid the worldwide financial crisis.

Published Friday, Jun. 26, 2009

Alberto Cutie walked away from a picturesque Spanish monastery in Miami Friday evening as a married man, attempting to leave behind seven weeks of controversy that turned the former Roman Catholic priest into tabloid fodder and an international celebrity.

Published Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009

Addressing an audience at the University of Pennsylvania Thursday morning, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped away from politics and focused on the divine. Specifically, the recent convert to Catholicism spoke about God.

Published Thursday, Jun. 25, 2009

"Chase survived in part because hundreds of people prayed to Father Emil Kapaun to intercede on his behalf. It was absolutely a miracle." - Paula Kear, Chase's mother

Published Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops have revised a document on Catholic-Jewish relations to affirm that the church must share its belief that salvation is through Christ.

Religion Today
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Sheila Schuller Coleman poses for a picture at the Crystal Cathedral church in Garden Grove, Calif., Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Schuller Coleman is poised to take over her father, Rev. Robert H. Schuller Sr.'s megachurch and its famous "Hour of Power" television ministry at a time of both financial and family crisis.

Published Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009

Starting at age 4, Sheila Schuller Coleman has held just about every job at her father's Crystal Cathedral, from copying Sunday programs at the kitchen table to launching a private high school on the church grounds.

Published Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009

Joshua DuBois made post-election headlines when Barack Obama asked him to lead a 25-member council of religious and nonprofit leaders that advises the president on policy, but he spoke of a softer subject in South Florida recently: his relationship with his "little brother," 15-year-old Adid Brayboy, whom he has mentored for nine years.

Published Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009

Voices of faith: Are some people just heartless and can't be changed?

Episcopal Split Warren
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Evangelical pastor Rick Warren speaks to about 800 people under a large tent at St. Vincent's Episcopal Cathedral Church in Bedford, Texas, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. About 800 Episcopalians splitting from their national church over a dispute about gay clergy gathered to hear the evangelical megachurch pastor who said they need to love people but not the world's values.

Published Tuesday, Jun. 23, 2009

Christians must show love to all people, even if they don't support their values, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren on Tuesday told breakaway Episcopalians and other Anglicans splitting from their national church over gay clergy and other issues.

Published Monday, Jun. 22, 2009

On the 30th anniversary of its conservative resurgence, the Southern Baptist Convention is poised to take on its next battle: declining numbers.

Published Monday, Jun. 22, 2009

Julie Price has left the Catholic Church, Christianity and God.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

The series of weekend conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses being held at Toyota Center in Kennewick this summer continues today and Sunday. The convention is in Spanish.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

Lutheran Church of the Master in Pasco is planning a night of ice cream and fellowship Thursday at the park near Maya Angelou Elementary School at 6001 Road 84.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

Several events are planned at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Kennewick through Thursday as part of Parish Mission Week.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

HERMISTON -- The Christian women's club Time Out will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Pheasant Cafe banquet room in Hermiston.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

A garage sale and bake sale to raise money for mission work in Haiti is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 15-16 at 6514 W. Ninth Place, Kennewick.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

Riverview United Methodist Church in Pasco will hold beach parties from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 17.

Published Saturday, Aug. 09, 2008

Cathedral of Joy in Richland is holding the 2008 "No Hungry Child" Golf Tournament on Aug. 17 at Canyon Lakes Golf Course.


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