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First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Religious groups that claim they were IRS targets

| Leave a Comment(RNS) The Internal Revenue Service, in the limelight this week after a watchdog panel said it used “inappropriate criteria” when considering applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party groups, is also under fire from religious o ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Religion, Thomas More

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

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WATCH: Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism via @RNS 38 minutes agoDavid Gibson's Sacred and Profane: More #Christian persecution myths shar.es/Z7z9q via @RNS 39 minutes agoMUSIC: #Catholic rocker Matt Maher finds cross-over ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Matt Maher, Evangelism, Judaism

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

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COMMENTARY: A hunger strike to close Guantanamo

| Leave a CommentCLAREMONT, Calif. (RNS) Last Sunday (May 12), Timothy Murphy began a fast of solidarity with the Guantanamo inmates who are on a hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention. As one of our Ph.D. students and an ordained minister ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Guantanamo (Cuba), Jerry Campbell, Claremont School of Theology, Lincoln University

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Catholic rocker Matt Maher finds cross-over appeal among evangelicals

(RNS) Growing up Roman Catholic in Newfoundland, Matt Maher never imagined that his childhood interest in music would lead to a career as a Grammy-nominated, chart-topping Christian rocker — let alone a crossover artist featured on Christian radio and ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Matt Maher, Catholic, Evangelism

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

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Welcome to Moozweek, a round-up of Muslim and Islam related news from the past week, and that perhaps you haven’t seen.This week in Moozweek: RIP, Retribution, Counter Violence. Profiling. Rohingyas. Gay Rights. Threads. Vote-istan.RIP Reformer…Asghar ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Profiling, LGBT, Islam

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

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.When the Wilmington atheist couple decided to join their lives a year ago, they knew they wanted a secular wedding celebrant, but their families weren’t ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Center For Inquiry, American Humanist Association, Religion

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

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More Christian persecution myths

| Leave a CommentMy colleague Lauren Markoe the other day interviewed Candida Moss, author of an interesting and controversial new book, “The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented A Story of Martyrdom.” Integral to her thesis is that not ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Catholic, Martin Richard, Oblates of the Virgin Mary, Boston Police Department, Boston (Massachusetts, United States)

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

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Why is a religion blogger writing about Star Trek: Into Darkness? shar.es/Zv6zs via @RNS 19 minutes agoFriday’s #Religion News Roundup: Georgia Bibles * AARP’s homosexual agenda * anti-Shariah bills via @RNS 27 minutes agoWATCH: Leaving Ultra-Orthodox ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Religion, AARP, Judaism

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism

They live conspicuously pious lives in a secular world, especially in enclaves and suburbs of New York. Ultra Orthodox Hasidic Jews observe the strict rules of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, and its 613 commandments.Their structured ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: Judaism, Religion, Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Who Framed Archbishop Myers?

| Leave a CommentNewark Archbishop John J. Myers got back from his trip to Poland this week and, according to his spokesman, will shortly make his first public statement on the latest revelations about Michael Fugee, the molester-priest who, in contravention ... [Published Religion News Service - May 17 2013]

Entities: John J. Myers, Earlville (Illinois, United States), Peoria (Illinois, United States), Abuse

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success

(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 ... [Published Religion News Service - May 16 2013]

Entities: Shariah Law, Corey Saylor, Religion, Islam, Jay Nixon

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

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Republish our work: Subscribe now Looking for the perfect image? Browse photos Help Religion News grow: Support RNSJonathan Merritt's On Faith & Culture - Some things just aren’t funny: A response to Mark Driscoll shar.es/Z27wT via @RNS 7 minutes ag ... [Published Religion News Service - May 16 2013]

Entities: Mark Driscoll, Victoria's Secret, Vegetables

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...In addition, Alphawood would work to help restructure the 40-year-old Unity Temple Restoration Foundation or "create a new preservation organization to manage fundraising, restoration, and preservation of Unity Temple as well as public programming and tours" according to the email, a copy of which was obtained by this blog late Tuesday

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