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Mississippi seder combines Jewish, black traditions
JACKSON, Miss. — Jewish professor Ernst Borinski fled Nazi Germany in 1938, when discriminatory laws foreshadowed darker times to come. Borinski came to the American South of the Jim Crow era to wo...
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Associated Press Floyd Roethler talks about St. Patrick's Church at St. Cecilia in Elma, Iowa, at a recent open house. Led by a group called the Friends of St. Patrick's Chapel at St. Cecilia, a new roof is being installed after more than $10,000 was raised through donations and fundraisers.
Iowa church gets new life with donations
ELMA, Iowa — Its pews still gleam with polish and the priest’s paraments hang in a closet, waiting, just off the altar area of St. Patrick’s church at St. Cecilia in rural Elma. Mass in the chur...
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Chalice believed to be remnant of 1899 twister
NEW RICHMOND, Wis. — No one knows how it got there, or where it came from, or just what happened to it over the decades But parishioners at SS Thomas & John Episcopal Church believe the gleaming...
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Associated Press Bishop T.D. Jakes shakes the hand of Texas Offenders Reentry Initiative graduates during a February 2010 service at The Potter's House in Dallas. As many as 10,000 people attend The Potter's House each Sunday.
Opinions differ on church size effectiveness
NASHVILLE, Tenn.  — On just about any Sunday, as many as 10,000 people may fill the pews of The Potter’s House, Bishop T.D. Jakes’ Dallas-area megachurch. Believers say he has an uncanny way of con...
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Church calendar
Special services Frank Runyeon will present the “Sermon on the Mount” at St. Thomas More Church, 7 p.m. His presentation will be followed by “Hollywood vs. Faith: The Three Other Beatitudes,” a ...
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Chicago Tribune/MCT Dr. Daniel Sulmasy is doing research on how doctors and patients handle faith and healing.
Medical schools help doctors incorporate religious beliefs
CHICAGO — As a medical student, Dr. Julie Oyler was told to remove the cross she wore on the lapel of her white coat. As a resident, Dr. Aasim Padela was told he wouldn’t have time to recite Islam’...
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Associated Press Pope Benedict XVI prays during a Chrism Mass in St. Peter's Basilica on Thursday at the Vatican. The Chrism Mass marks the start of the Easter celebrations.
Pope slams reformists’ calls to ordain women
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday marked the first of a series of traditional Easter rituals with a Mass during which he criticized a group of Austrian clerics championing the ordination...
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Associated Press Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men collect spring water to be used in the preparation of matzoh, a traditional handmade Passover unleavened bread, in Bnei Brak, an ultra Orthodox Jewish town near Tel Aviv, Israel. Jews are forbidden to eat leavened foodstuffs during the Passover holiday. Passover celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites' escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt.
Israelis prepare for Passover celebration
BNEI BRAK, Israel — Passover celebrates the biblical story of the Israelites’ escape from slavery and exodus from Egypt. The story recounts that God killed the first-born boys of Egypt after the ph...
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Series honors faithful contributor
For those who knew Jane Myre, many remember her as an ambassador for her faith. Staff and supporters of the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center will honor Myre’s memory with a new series in this...
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Associated Press Frederic and Anne-Laure Pascal pose in the Kresge Chapel at the Claremont Lincoln University, an interreligious graduate institute in Claremont, Calif. The young French couple has been traveling the world for the past five months, from Africa to Malaysia to Italy, to visit interfaith projects and initiatives around the world. 
Interfaith ‘pilgrims’ circle world on quest
CLAREMONT, Calif. — Frederic and Anne-Laure Pascal are devout Roman Catholics who built their lives around their religion. When she lost her job last year, the young couple decided on an unlikely e...
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