...who said that radiocarbon dating tests in 1988 showed the shroud to be a medieval forgery. Dr Frale asserts in a new book, The Shroud of Jesus the Nazarene, that computer enhancement enabled her to detect the archaic script, which appears...

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Yesterday we reported on a comment the Rev. Jesse Jackson made at a dinner held by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation that seemed directed at Rep. Rep. Artur Davis , D- Ala. Davis , who is running for governor of Alabama , was the only...

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...it was that of Sheila Johnson , a founder of Black Entertainment Television , urging voters to support McDonnell. Meanwhile, Rev. Al Sharpton is touting real education reform with none other than Newt Gingrich. Which ultimately...

In this article: Jesse Jackson, Artur Davis, Bob McDonnell, Washington, New York City, Sheila Johnson, and United States Senate

...the last, and the lost. As a resident of Birmingham, Alabama , I have frequently visited the jail cell from which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." King was an ordained Baptist minister and...

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Read More: Artur Davis Health Care, Jackson Artur Davis , Jackson Black Man, Jackson Health Care, Jackson Walk Back, Jesse Jackson , Politics News Reverend Jesse Jackson is moderating a stinging rebuke of Rep. Artur Davis over the Alabama...

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... Anglicans and work toward greater Christian unity, the head of the Anglican Communion said on Thursday. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams , whose own church is split over female priests and bishops, said the Vatican 's ban on...

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Pope Benedict XVI is to meet his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams on Saturday, just two weeks after a Vatican overture to disgruntled Anglicans to convert to Catholicism. The British press has painted Williams '...

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...aside their differences with Anglicans over the issue of female bishops, insisting there was more uniting the denominations than dividing them. Rowan Williams was giving a lecture in Rome before Sunday's meeting with the pope, their first...

In this article: Rowan Williams, Anglicans, Rome, Brian Farrell, Canterbury, Vatican, Catholicism, God, and Anxiety

...for Anglicans to join the Catholic Church as he arrived in Rome for his first talks with the pope on the new policy. AP Photo Pope Benedict XVI walks past Vatican Swiss guards as he arrives in the Paul VI hall for an audience granted to...

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The Hill reports that Rev. Jesse Jackson made waves last night for saying, a You cana t vote against health care and call yourself a black man.a The remarks were made at a reception held by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to...

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...in 1984 and captured 6.9 million votes and 11 contests in 1988. Lee said it was the coalition Jackson tried to build that elected Obama. Jackson is part of a generation of black political leadership that grapples with Obama 's...

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...of committing fatal arson attacks during unrest in March marking the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama 's flight to India. With his characteristic laugh, the Dalai Lama also noted the "limitations" to the support he could expect from the...

In this article: Dalai Lama, Tibet, China, White House, Hu Jintao, Buddhist, Rome, and Beijing

...5th World Parliamentarians' Convention on Tibet is taking place, in Rome , Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, also attended by the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama says there will be a "setback'' in the Tibetan cause when he dies. The 74-year-old spiritual...

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...and beside him was a coffin with a fake dead body inside. He talked about how we are all going to die and go to hell if we don't know Jesus. Some folks snickered. Some told him to shut the hell up. A couple of teenagers tried to steal...

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..."coerced" into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Richard Miniter , who was also vice president of opinion, made the claim in a filing...

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...not feudal, values as leader of the self-proclaimed Tibetan government-in-exile in India since fleeing there in 1959. The Dalai Lama says he seeks only meaningful autonomy for Tibet under Chinese rule, not independence. To China , he is a...

In this article: Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, China, Tibet, Abraham Lincoln, Buddhist, Beijing, and United States

...holiness even in the Communion of the See of Canterbury '. Next week Dr Williams flies to Rome , where he will have an audience with Pope Benedict XVI. If the CofE actually just stuck to preaching the word of God, and stopped trying to...

In this article: Rowan Williams, Church of England, God, Anglicans, Roman Catholicism, Canterbury, Rome, Vatican, and Catholicism

...he insisted that it remained possible to be at once holy, Catholic and Anglican. Dr Williams did not refer directly to the response from Pope Benedict XVI to requests from some Church of England bishops and traditional Anglicans around the...

In this article: Rowan Williams, Anglicanism, Catholic Church, Church of England, God, Britain, All Saints' Day, See of Canterbury, Forward in Faith, and Royal Society