Religion
Floods strand pilgrims in India, deaths could rise
Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister said the toll could rise substantially. The torrential rain and landslides since Sunday have stranded pilgrims at four revered Hindu shrines, washed away bridges and roads and ...
Former priest's sex abuse trial set for Aug. 27
A West Texas judge has set ground rules in a sex abuse case against a former Roman Catholic priest who served 11 years in Texas -- despite a child molestation conviction in California. The judge Wednesday told attorneys for both sides how proceedings will go in John Anthony Salazar's case. ...
Fort Wayne priest removed after sex abuse charge
A Catholic priest who took over a Fort Wayne parish after its pastor was accused of sexually abusing a minor has been removed from public ministry himself for allegedly abusing a minor in Africa some 20 years ago. Fort Wayne-South Bend Bishop Kevin Rhodes took the action June 10 against ...
New MERS virus spreads easily, deadlier than SARS
A mysterious new respiratory virus that originated in the Middle East spreads easily between people and appears more deadly than SARS, doctors reported Wednesday after investigating the biggest outbreak in Saudi Arabia. More than 60 cases of what is now called MERS, including 38 deaths, have been recorded by the ...
Recent editorials from Texas newspapers
Houston Chronicle. June 19, 2013. FEMA needs to reconsider: The people of West need and deserve all the FEMA help they can get. "You are not forgotten. We may not all live here in Texas but we're neighbors too. We're Americans too," President Obama told the people of West nearly ...
Egypt top cleric: Protests against Morsi permitted
Egypt's top Muslim cleric declared Wednesday that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, in a snub to hard-line Islamist backers of Mohammed Morsi who declared that those behind opposition protests planned for June 30 are heretics. In a statement, Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar mosque, ...
Accused priest too sick for trial, lawyer says
An attorney says a terminally ill Catholic priest is so sick and incapacitated his upcoming trial on sodomy charges would be a "mockery." The Rev. James Schook is scheduled for trial Monday in Louisville on seven counts, but prosecutors acknowledged that it would likely be postponed. He is accused of ...
Tunisia arrests Muslim cleric for hardline sermon
Tunisian police arrested an imam after he delivered a sermon described as "insubordinate," the Interior Ministry said Wednesday, in the first high-profile arrest since the government began taking a harder line toward religious conservatives. After facing accusations that it has been lax in enforcing the law, Tunisia's moderate Islamist ruling ...
Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction
She doesn't boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, "Fatal Attraction for Cable News." Premiering Saturday at 8 p.m. EDT, "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret" is a ripped-from-cable-news saga of a woman scorned ...
'Man of Steel' promoted from the pulpit
Seems Warner Bros. has taken movie marketing to a whole new level — even higher than a bird or a plane. The studio enlisted Christian-focused firm Grace Hill Media to promote "Man of Steel" to faith-based groups by inviting them to early screenings and creating trailers that highlight the film's ...
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