| When Bishops Play Politics |
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| Massacres shake uneasy Nigeria |
| The attackers came at night and surrounded this small farming village, firing shots in the air to scare residents from their homes. Men, women and children were hacked with machetes as they rushed out. |
| Read More...(Source: PewForum.org | All News Feeds - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST) |
| Supreme Court wades into funeral protests |
| The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the father of a fallen Marine can collect damages from a religious sect that picketed his son's funeral with vulgar placards celebrating the death of American soldiers. |
| Read More...(Source: PewForum.org | All News Feeds - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST) |
| A policy change on abortion, but how radical? |
| President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars that some abortion opponents fear. |
| Read More...(Source: PewForum.org | All News Feeds - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST) |
| Muslim women fight for rights |
| In a tiny shanty in Sultanshahi in Hyderabad's old city, a group of 10 and 15-year-old girls is drawing. |
| Read More...(Source: PewForum.org | All News Feeds - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST) |
| 500 butchered in Nigeria killing fields |
| Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. |
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| Group wants same military benefits for gay spouses |
| A leading gay rights group says married gay service members should have the same rights as straight couples once President Obama ends the military's ban on open homosexuality in the ranks. |
| Read More...(Source: PewForum.org | All News Feeds - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST) |
| Sunnis go to polls, this time, to retain a oice |
| In this town, nicknamed the City of Mosques, the scratchy loudspeakers of muezzins that once preached resistance to the American occupation implored Sunni Arabs to defy bombs and vote Sunday. They did, in a landmark election that demonstrated how far Iraq has come and perhaps how far it has to go. |
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| Religious prejudice simmers |
| "I hate pizza day at school," my nephew announced at my family's annual holiday dinner. |
| Read More...(Source: PewForum.org | All News Feeds - Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST) |
| Ore. parents get 16 months in son's faith-healing death |
| A judge sentenced two Oregon parents to 16 months in prison on Monday (March 8), calling their decision to not seek medical care for their 16-year-old son a "crime that was a product of an unwillingness to respect the boundaries of freedom of expression." |
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| Jury urges death penalty for former 'Bachelor No. 1' |
| A California jury recommended Tuesday that a man who once appeared on "The Dating Game" be executed for the murders of four women and a child. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:14:28 EST) |
| U.S.: 'Jihad Jane' backed terrorists |
| A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department said. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:43:46 EST) |
| Ex-doc sentenced for wife's poisoning |
| A former Ohio doctor was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning his wife with cyanide five years ago. The judge lamented that she could not hand down a stiffer sentence. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:21:08 EST) |
| Missing executive's body found in river |
| The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, police said. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:01:47 EST) |
| Police: Ohio State shooter killed himself |
| A gunman apparently angry over a poor evaluation entered an Ohio State University maintenance building today, killing a manager and then himself, police said. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:10:24 EST) |
| Man pleads guilty in N.J. airport scare |
| A New Jersey man who breached security to give his girlfriend a kiss, causing scores of flight delays, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defiant trespass, his lawyer said. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:42:49 EST) |
| Oscar interrupter: I was wronged |
| A documentary producer who interrupted a director's Oscar acceptance speech Sunday night says she was the one who was "big-footed" on stage. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:45:29 EST) |
| China may ban eating dogs, cats |
| Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:23:03 EST) |
| Lawmaker foe of gay rights: I'm gay |
| Why would a gay politician vote against gay rights? |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:04:45 EST) |
| Opinion: Gays have right to privacy, too |
| Today is the first day same-sex weddings will be performed in the District of Columbia. |
| Read More...(Source: CNN.com - Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:32:46 EST) |