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BRIEF: Nuns on the Bus heading to NC on southern tour

| May 20, 2013

As part of their tour through the Southern United States, the Nuns on the Bus will make two stops in North Carolina on May 31.
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Said on Sunday: Global Day of Prayer Brings Denominations Together

| May 20, 2013

This Sunday was Pentecost for most Christians, but for the people attending First Baptist Activity Center on Sunday afternoon (May 19), it was also Global Day of Prayer, a day to repent and pray with fellow Christians.
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Catholic rocker Matt Maher finds cross-over appeal among evangelicals

| May 19, 2013

Canadian Christian rocker Matt Maher’s 2009 album, “Alive Again,” reached No. 6 on Billboard’s “Top Christian Albums” chart, and he’s received two Grammy nominations for songs co-written for Christian singer Chris Tomlin. He just launched a five-month North American tour in support of his new album, “All The People Said Amen.”
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Human Cloning Breakthrough Prompts Religious Objections

| May 17, 2013

Human cloning “treats human beings as products,” Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley said on behalf of the bishops, “manufactured to order to suit other people’s wishes. … A technical advance in human cloning is not progress for humanity but its opposite.”
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Candida Moss debunks the ‘myth’ of Christian persecution

| May 16, 2013

Too many modern Christians invoke, to lamentable effect, an ancient history of persecution that didn’t exist, Notre Dame theologian Candida Moss argues in her newly published book, “The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented A Story of Martyrdom.”
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BRIEF: Pentecost Global Day of Prayer celebration set for Wilmington May 19

| May 14, 2013

Wilmington's Global Day of Prayer will be 3 p.m. on Pentecost Sunday (May 19) at the First Baptist Activity Center on Independence Boulevard.
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Catholic population surges across the Global South

| May 14, 2013

Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released Monday (May 13), signaling a shift of the church’s center of gravity toward the Global South that was heralded by the election of the first Latin American pope.
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Abuse watchdogs say bishops’ ‘failings’ hurt their credibility

| May 14, 2013

The latest scandal has shaken Newark, N.J., where Archbishop John Myers failed to stop a priest from ministering with children in several parishes even though he had assured prosecutors that he would enforce a lifetime ban on the priest’s access to children following a molestation case.
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Left behind: Families struggle to navigate life after suicide

| May 13, 2013

Today, though most religions still condemn suicide, there’s an understanding in many faiths that those who take their own lives don’t always have full control over their actions.
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Lifeway Christian Store opening in Wilmington on May 18

| May 10, 2013

Wilmington's LifeWay Christian Store will open May 18 at 341-55/56 S. College Road, in the University Commons Shopping Center near Home Goods and A.C. Moore Arts and Crafts.
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