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| washingtonpost.com - Religion
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6 -- The story from the Grace Cathedral on Saturday was not so much about what happened but what didn't happen. Episcopalians in San Francisco did not elect an openly gay candidate as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, thereby preventing a schism within the 75...
The business class had just finished its evening prayer break, and everyone's shoes were back on.
LOS ANGELES -- When Fabiola Briones entered a Pentecostal church for the first time, she was in crisis, recently divorced and bitter from abuse she suffered as a child. A Mexican-American Catholic, she had never seen anyone fall to the ground while praising God or speak in tongues, which is common...
CAIRO, April 30 -- Sitting on the bluff at the Giza pyramids in late afternoon, as the sky turns pink behind the great pharaonic tombs, you can hear the 5 o'clock call to prayer rise from mosques in the Nile River valley below until the air becomes filled with a drone of proclaimed faith.
A crunch on open space in many cities has developers courting churches with multimillion-dollar offers to buy their property and sometimes even the air above their heads.
A Jesuit priest who was a popular teacher for 14 years at Georgetown Preparatory School inappropriately touched a student at the prestigious Jesuit-run boys' school in North Bethesda, an investigation by Jesuit authorities found.
Honda Q4 net jumps on one-off gains TOKYO (Reuters) - Honda Motor Co. on Wednesday posted a 133 percent jump in fourth-quarter net profit, helped by a softer yen, brisk overseas sales and accounting one-offs, but projected weaker-than-expected earnings for this year. January-March net profit at...
Bush picks Fox's Snow as press secretary WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush has picked Fox News Radio host Tony Snow as his new White House press secretary and is expected to announce the choice as early as Wednesday, a Republican official said on Tuesday night. Snow will replace Scott McClellan,...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's military launched new strikes on Tamil Tiger areas in the island's northeast on Wednesday, a day after a deadly suicide bomb attack blamed on rebels shattered a fragile ceasefire.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's presidential candidates tore into each other on Tuesday in a televised debate with some tough rhetoric also aimed at an empty chair set aside for a leftist front runner who refused to take part.
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