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Belief Bytes: Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup

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Here is your Religion News Roundup excerpt for today.


By David Gibson


c. Religion News Service 2012

Reprinted with permission

This could be interesting: Egypt’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, says he will choose a Coptic Christian and a woman as his vice presidents.

Christianity Today has much more on what the Copts in Egypt, who have had a rough go of it for a long time, are thinking.

A local German court ruling that circumcision is criminal has united Jews and Muslims in outrage.

On the other side of the life cycle, more Jews are opting for cremation.
 

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Topics: Ethics, Medical Ethics
Beliefs: Christian - Catholic, Christian - Orthodox, Islam, Judaism
Tags: bloomberg, congress, jewish cremation, jon gosslin, nuns

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Jana Greene writes about addiction recovery from a Christian perspective on Redemption Feast. She also served a stint as an editorial intern for WilmingtonFAVS.
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