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Beck Wants to Lead, But Will Evangelicals Follow? Once uncomfortable with Mitt Romney, evangelicals appear mixed on Glenn Beck. Adelle M. Banks, Religion News Service | posted 9/01/2010 08:57AM   Southern Baptist executive Richard Land was pleased at how religious Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally turned out to be. Bishop Harry Jackson, a black evangelical [...]

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...from the EUObserver VIVIANE REDING 17.07.2010 @ 12:27 CET People are always talking about what divides Europeans, but I find it more constructive to focus on what unites us. We are united in a European Union by common values. In 1989, we witnessed the power of these values to transform lives and break down barriers. [...]

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By TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writer RALEIGH, N.C. – About halfway through Sunday service at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as worshipers passed around the collection plate, a chorus of screams pierced the air. Chunks of the ceiling in the 52-year-old church near Hickory came crashing down on the crowd of 200 or so, striking about [...]

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More than half of the nation's working adults have been directly hit by the recession, pushing them into unemployment, pay cuts, reduced hours at work or part-time jobs, according to Pew Research Center. More than six in 10 Americans say they have cut down on borrowing and spending. Nearly half of the survey's respondents say [...]

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A proposed religious liberty amendment to Missouri's Constitution failed for the third year in a row, due in part to opposition by anti-religious-liberty groups. The American Civil Liberties Union, the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, liberal Baptist groups and Jewish organizations decried the bill as empowering the Christian community to "place its [...]

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The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) is in their 219th General Assembly this week (July 3-10) meeting in Minneapolis, Minn. Cynthia Bolbach was chosen as the moderator. Bolbach is an elder from National Capital Presbytery in Washington and a strong supporter of same-sex marriage. She will oversee the deliberation of a number of contentious resolutions, one being [...]

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