Mormons take Wiesenthal off list to be baptised
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In life, Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal was among the most famous Jews of the 20th century. In death, he wound up on a list of people eligible to be posthumously baptised as Mormons so they could enter heaven.
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The Episcopal Church was told to ban blessings of same-sex unions or risk a reduced role in the denomination.
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A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged.
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In a Dec. 9 story about the Church of Scientology International in Germany, The Associated Press erroneously reported that German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Bild am Sonntag newspaper that intelligence agencies were moving to ban the group and that he called it an unconstitutional organization.
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By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI  KIBBUTZ KINNERET, Israel - Wading into the Jordan River, the pastor blessed his flock, tapping the believers on the head before sending them into the hallowed waters to be baptized.
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.
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An atheist lost his bid Wednesday to have the Supreme Court bar the saying of a prayer at President Bush's inauguration.
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Coca-Cola's main Russian bottling  distributor has removed religious images from its drinks  refrigerators after a group of Russian Orthodox believers  accused it of blasphemy, a spokeswoman for the firm said on  Thursday.
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Pope Benedict was baptized at birth and will most likely be baptized again one year after his death, not by his Roman Catholic Church but by a Mormon he never met.
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Federal employees in part of Illinois now have the option of enrolling in a Catholic-run health insurance plan that does not cover abortion, contraceptives or fertility treatment.
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VIENNA -- A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year.
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On Sunday, ultraorthodox Jews defeated a measure to extend daylight-saving time, citing religious traditions.
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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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MOSCOW, Jul 18 (IPS) - For more than a century, the Church of Jesus Christ  of Latter-Day Saints has been struggling to establish itself in  the former Soviet republics and parts of Eastern Europe.
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MEXICO CITY -- Mexico's Roman Catholic Church has been cleared of accusations that its opposition to abortion violated a law banning priests from mixing in politics, but the church said yesterday that it will mount a campaign to change the law it believes is too restrictive.
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Austrians disgusted by a summer of scandal involving child pornography at a seminary and a prominent priest accused of sexual abuse are leaving the Roman Catholic church in significant numbers, church leaders said Friday.
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America said Thursday it is removing from the clergy a gay minister who announced he has a partner.