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Poor Muslims Cite Fear of Backlash After Blasts in Historic Indian City - washingtonpost.com

Religion – Down dusty alleys in a neighborhood of Bangladeshi migrant workers, police detectives searched house to house Thursday for suspects in the coordinated bombings that tore through this historic city two days ago. Dozens of Bangladeshis were questioned. Police said that at least 30 have been taken into custody but that no arrests have been made.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:49am

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Judge won't free family of polygamist sect member

Family – A polygamist sect member who says the state has wrongly swept his three children into foster care lost an attempt Thursday to free them. Dan Jessop said he won a partial victory, though, when lawyers for Child Protective Services told a judge that CPS workers would try to place his wife, their baby and two other children together in a foster hom

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:47am

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Christian couple believe court ruling goes against God's plan

Religion – Besides her faith, family is at the center of Cathi Unruh's life. That is, family as defined by their understanding of God's will: a husband, a wife and their children. The El Segundo native even home-schooled her four children to more firmly root them in the family's evangelical Christian faith.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:43am

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New book by retired minister looks for parables in the stories of Dr. Seuss

Books – When "Horton Hears a Who," is there a sermon to be heard? What about "The Cat in the Hat" and "The Lorax"? Are those characters metaphors for Christ?

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:39am

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Woman who saved kids from Holocaust dies

News – Irena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:35am

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Einstein's Letter Makes View Of Religion Relatively Clear: Childish Superstitions

Religion – Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as "childish superstitions".

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:32am

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Iowa meatpacking plant raided in ID theft investigation

News – POSTVILLE, Iowa - At least 300 people were arrested Monday on immigration and identity theft charges at Agriprocessors, one of the USA's largest packing plants for kosher meats.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:29am

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Muslims Campaign to Reclaim 'Jihad' from Extremists

Religion – The end to Ani Zonneveld's "jihad" on "jihad" came during an episode of "Desperate Housewives," when Lynette (Felicity Huffman) discovers she has cancer and throws a stone at a possum. "Look at yourself," replies her husband, Tom. "You've declared jihad on a possum."

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:26am

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Study Explores 'Evangelical Intelligentsia'

Religion – For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or something," Berger says. It's time that attitude changed, he says.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:21am

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Muslim Nation Hosts Jewish and Christian Scholars for Interfaith Dialogue

Religion – More than a dozen Jewish 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.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:17am

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California's top court overturns gay marriage ban

Gay & Lesbian – In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:13am

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A Look at Modern-Day Israel 2

Religion – The Bible says that Jesus Christ "destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility" between Jews and Gentiles (Ephesians 2:14). Although the Middle East is rife with conflict and violence, many Jews and Arabs are converting to Christianity and striving to live in peace with one another.

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Voted for on May 16, 2008 09:07am

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U.S. Jews' Relationship With Israel Evolves

Religion – Growing up at Congregation Olam Tikvah, Michelle Pearlstein remembers how Israel was taught at religious school: "Black and white -- you can't trust anyone, and it was a united front in support of Israel." Today, Pearlstein, 35, is the Israel specialist at the Fairfax synagogue, where she teaches what is now the mainstream approach: "

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Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:30pm

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McCain's Christian Problem

Politics – John McCain, who has spent the last two months trying to consolidate right-wing support as the Republican candidate for president, has a problem of disputed dimensions with a vital component of the conservative coalition: the evangelicals. The biggest question is whether Mike Huckabee is part of the problem or the solution for McCain.

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Voted for on May 15, 2008 08:29pm

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Plan for Cross Shakes Columbia to Its Core Values

Religion – The founders of Columbia were convinced that religion, like everything else in the planned community, should be harmonious and inclusive. So the founders opted for interfaith centers. Now, one congregation's plan to place a 16-foot cross on a new building at the town's oldest interfaith center has stirred an anxious response.

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