Faith-Based Grant to Ariz. Group Blocked
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A judge has blocked the Bush administration from providing future "faith-based" grants to an Arizona mentoring group that injected religion into its publicly funded programs.
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A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in the case of an atheist who wants to prevent a Christian minister from reciting a prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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Voters in the western US state of Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico, approved a disputed measure that has been branded &quot;anti-immigrant&quot; by opponents, officials said.
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An atheist who tried to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance lost a bid Friday to bar the saying of a Christian prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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By BLAKE NICHOLSON  BISMARCK, N.D. - An atheist group says North Dakota officials are using public money to religiously indoctrinate young people at the Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch, according to a federal lawsuit.
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By Andrea Kelly, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 16--The committee that backed the voter-approved Regional Transportation Plan violated election law by not revealing they paid for many of the statements of support in the sample ballot, the Yuma County Attorney's Office found.
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With a religiously mixed population, aid efforts have meant reaching out across faith barriers.
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Government officials in Belarus have refused to allow the use of a cowshed for the religious services of a Protestant charismatic group, the Forum 18 news service reports.
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TUCSON, Ariz.  - A federal judge on Wednesday  lifted a block on a controversial Arizona law aimed at  restricting government services for illegal immigrants.
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The Bush administration took action Wednesday aimed at choking off a major fundraising channel for Hezbollah operating in the tri-border area of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.
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ALI JEGK, Arizona  - Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are complaining that work to put up a new barrier to secure the border has desecrated an ancient burial ground.
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By PAUL FOY  SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Interior Department on Thursday rejected a bitterly contested plan to create a nuclear waste stockpile at an American Indian reservation in Utah's west desert.  Sen.
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PHOENIX -- In 1999, Richard Kimsey and his wife, Susan, deposited $100,000 with a Phoenix-based Southern Baptist agency that promised to do the Lord's work. A few days later, the Kimseys' money had all but vanished. And when Richard Kimsey, a Southern Baptist pastor, spoke out against the foundation...
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A couple in Pagosa Springs, Colo., was threatened with fines by their homeownersÂ association unless they removed a wreath shaped like a peace symbol.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Sep. 15--The Bush administration expressed reservations Thursday about  key provisions of a bill, already opposed by environmental groups, aimed at  shaping the explosive growth in Washington County.
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A church group that protests at military funerals around the country will be barred from services for an American Indian soldier on a reservation, tribal officials say.
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The Republican Party's largest gay and lesbian organization, which endorsed President Bush in 2000, is withholding its endorsement of the president for re-election because of his support for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.