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Humanists find ways to say ‘I do’ without God

WILMINGTON, N.C. (RNS) Amanda Holowaty didn’t need God to get married. She just needed her husband Mike.
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Archbishop Mansell to tweet from Rome

| May 17, 2013

Can’t make it to Rome with Archbishop Henry J. Mansell for the Year of Faith Pilgrimage?
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Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success

| May 17, 2013

(RNS) When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit within two days challenging the constitutionality of the measure, and won.
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Happy Birthday Buddha

| May 16, 2013

Today is Buddha’s birthday.
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Take a walking tour of Grove Street Cemetery with Hartford Faith & Values

| May 16, 2013

Hartford Faith & Values (HartfordFAVS.com), Connecticut’s nonsectarian, nonprofit religion news website, will host "Rest in Peace: a Walking Tour of the Historical Grove Street Cemetery" from 2 to 3 p.m. June 15, 2013.
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Congregations tend the soil and the soul with vegetable gardens

| May 15, 2013

(RNS) The Rev. Morris G. Henderson wasn’t sure what do with a vacant city block of land behind his 31st Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Va. The church had purchased the plots, but didn’t have the funding to build a planned family life center.
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Lifetree Cafes: a place to get together to have a conversation

| May 15, 2013

Christ Community Church in Waterbury, Conn is among a growing number of congregations taking part in a new evangelical tool to reach the unchurched.
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Vatican revives its ancient patronage of the arts

| May 14, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) For centuries, popes sponsored the work of artists such as Michelangelo, Raffaello or Bernini, who went on to create some of their masterpieces within the very walls of the Vatican.
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Candida Moss debunks the ‘myth’ of Christian persecution

| May 14, 2013

(RNS) Growing up Catholic in England, Candida Moss felt secure in life, yet was told in church that Christians have been persecuted since the dawn of Christianity. Now, as an adult and a theologian, she wants to set the record straight.
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Catholic population surges across the Global South

| May 13, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released Monday (May 13), signaling a shift of the church’s center of gravity toward the Global South that was heralded by the election of the first Latin American pope.
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Abuse watchdogs say bishops’ ‘failings’ hurt their credibility

| May 10, 2013

(RNS) Even as an annual review this week gave Catholic bishops high marks on sex abuse prevention policies, officials with the church’s oversight agencies expressed serious concerns about “recent high-profile failings” in several dioceses.
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