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| Canton Man To Meet Pope At White House
Canton resident Chris Cungini is looking forward to the visit by Pope Benedict XVI to the White House this week. Chris is one a select few who have been invited to the White House to meet both President Bush and the Pontiff. |
| ESPN's Blackledge To Speak
Saturday Night Primetime College Football Games are just a few of the games that Todd Blackledge, a seven-year veteran of the National Football League, has broadcast this year on ESPN. |
| Lent Begins
Often people ask, "What are you giving up for Lent?" Well, it's time to decide because it begins today. Lent is the 40-day period of Christian and Protestant meditation and penance leading up to Easter Sunday. comments: 2 |
| Local Pastor George Bartz Dies
Pastor Emeritus of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church and founder of Akron Area Interfaith Council Bartz passed away Tuesday.
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Pope Benedict pens prayer for Chinese Catholics
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI has written a special prayer for Chinese Catholics who face "daily trials" in the officially atheistic country, the Vatican said Friday....
In Qatar, Muslim, Jewish clerics meet
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- More than a dozen rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith dialogue....
Spree of jewel heists puts Houston dealers on edge
HOUSTON (AP) -- Brazen jewel thieves are robbing traveling dealers around Houston in a spree of heists that has jewelers on edge....
Religion in the news
TRAMOUNG CHRUM, Cambodia (AP) -- When residents of this poor, Cambodian village need something built, they call on the Lightmans....
Order that sat out LA abuse settlement makes deal
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Catholic order of priests that refused to join a record sex-abuse settlement between accusers and the Los Angeles Archdiocese has reached a deal, an attorney for the plaintiffs said....
Religion news in brief
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia is aiming to become a worldwide hub for food and other products prepared according to Islamic religious rules by offering new tax exemptions to investors in the industry, the prime minister said....
Religion today
BOSTON (AP) -- For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals....
Ellison, Carson urge US to take action in Darfur
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress' two Muslim members urged the U.S. government on Wednesday to lead efforts to end the violence in Sudan's Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced....
Reports: Acquittals overturn in Vatican Radio case
ROME (AP) -- Italy's top criminal court overturned the acquittals of a Vatican cardinal and another top churchman accused of environmental pollution involving a Vatican Radio transmission tower near Rome, news reports said Tuesday night....
Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday....
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