Rights group: ‘Drastic improvements’ needed in Zimbabwe in weeks before presidential runoff (Religion News)
Posted by Jose on 09 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: religious antiques
Rights group: ‘Drastic improvements’ needed in Zimbabwe in weeks before presidential runoff
With just three weeks to go before a presidential runoff, the African Union and Zimbabwe’s neighbors must push longtime Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe to end political violence in his southern African country, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
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Shrinking Flock Examines Its Identity
The Rev. Todd Thomason looked out at the nearly empty pews of his congregation at Baptist Temple Church last Sunday. He had preached long and hard about Abraham leaving all that he knew and setting out into an unknown future on nothing more than faith in God. He was hoping that, after the service, what was left of his flock would have the courage to do the same.
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Both Barack Obama and John McCain have problems with religion
Few Democrats have seemed more comfortable talking about God than Barack Obama has.
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Turkey’s High Court Overturns Headscarf Rule
Turkey?s highest court dealt a stinging slap to the governing party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday, ruling that a legal change allowing women attending universities to wear head scarves was unconstitutional.
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Some Muslims in U.S. Quietly Engage in Polygamy
Although polygamy is illegal in the U.S., some Muslim men in America have quietly married multiple wives. No one knows for sure how many Muslims in the U.S. live in polygamous families, but estimates range from 50,000 to 100,000 people.
Although polygamy is illegal in the U.S., some Muslim men in America have quietly married multiple wives. No one knows for sure how many Muslims in the U.S. live in polygamous families, but estimates range from 50,000 to 100,000 people.
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Clinton’s Ex-Pastor Weighs In on Her Exit, Next Step
The Rev. Don Jones is the former youth pastor at First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Ill., the childhood church of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). A spiritual adviser to Clinton in the 1960s, he says he’s deeply saddened by her loss but will follow her lead in supporting Barack Obama for the presidency.
The Rev. Don Jones is the former youth pastor at First United Methodist Church in Park Ridge, Ill., the childhood church of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). A spiritual adviser to Clinton in the 1960s, he says he’s deeply saddened by her loss but will follow her lead in supporting Barack Obama for the presidency.
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Evangelicals Are Still Wary Despite McCain?s Outreach
Lori Viars, an evangelical activist in Warren County, Ohio, essentially put her life on hold in the fall of 2004 to run a phone bank for President Bush. Her efforts helped the president?s ambitious push to turn out evangelicals and win that critical swing state in a close election.
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