Monk's return tests Vietnam's religious tolerance
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Buddhist emissary Nhat Hanh makes his second visit to Vietnam since being exiled in 1966.
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ALBANY, New York  - Some are Catholics who see   their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who   happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few   just can't find a priest when they need one.
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"Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United States?"  "I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something people won't accept."  "What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president?"  "I would question his sanity."  "Do you ever go to church?"  "No. I visit my wife's sangha."  "So you sometimes practice Buddhism?"  "I don't claim anything. But my sympathies would be in that direction. I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion."  So lets get this straight.  He's an a ...
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Religious leaders from around Southeast Asia and Australia are urging greater efforts to promote tolerance and understanding. They met in Indonesia to build inter-religious bridges to reduce the threat posed by extremists.
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Pope John Paul, attempting to mend relations with Orthodox Christians, on Saturday returned the remains of two of their most prominent saints 800 years after Crusaders snatched sacred relics from Constantinople.
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MOSCOW -- A Russian icon that hung for years in the private chapel of Pope John Paul II returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday, a gesture that the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
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The Roman Catholic Church on  Monday began the sainthood procedure for a Vietnamese cardinal  who was imprisoned by the communists for some 13 years.
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SEOUL -- In his final days, the Venerable Bogwang, a fisherman-turned-Buddhist monk, wrestled with a dilemma. The scriptures he revered exhorted him to leave behind the entanglements of the material world.
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Two researchers are following the footsteps of the religious patriarch in the hope that people will rediscover their common roots.
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A famous expatriate returns to the homeland only to find his dissident brethren refusing to welcome him and accusing him of being a quisling for the Communist regime
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The protests by Buddhist monks are part of a decades-long battle for democracy
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Vietnam has released one of its best-known dissidents from prison, two weeks before its president is to make a historic visit to the United States, an official said Sunday.
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Egypt's highest civil court ruled Saturday that 12 Coptic Christians who had converted to Islam could return to their old faith, ending a yearlong legal battle over the predominantly Muslim state's tolerance for conversion.
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MAE SOT, Thailand, Oct. 25 -- The young Buddhist monk arrived here by boat last week from Burma, exhausted and disheveled, with no passport, the stubble of his hair dyed blond for a disguise, and wearing a traditional Burmese longyi wrap instead of his saffron-colored robe. He had to elude capture...
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Buddhist monks spearheading the biggest anti-government marches in nearly two decades relaunched their protests in Myanmar's two major cities Tuesday, defying orders to stay out of politics.
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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 28, 2004 .- John Paul II returned the relics of Sts. Gregory Nazianzen and John Chrysostom to the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, hoping the gesture would serve to &quot;reinforce our path of reconciliation.
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Pope Benedict XVI expressed his support Monday for the beatification of a Vietnamese cardinal who spent 13 years in a communist prison camp before being sent in exile to Rome.