Archive for April, 2005
Friday, April 29th, 2005
Methodist appeals panel sets aside defrocking of lesbian minister
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LINTHICUM, Md., April 29 — The United Methodist Church reversed itself Friday, deciding to reinstate a lesbian minister who was defrocked after revealing her relationship with another woman.
A church panel voted 8 to 1 to set aside an earlier decision to defrock Irene ”Beth” Stroud for violating […]
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Friday, April 29th, 2005
Statement of Commitment by the Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada
ACNS 3971 | CANADA | 29 APRIL 2005
The following statement was unanimously adopted by the Canadian House of Bishops
meeting in Windsor, Ont., on April 27.
Statement of Commitment by the Bishops of the Anglican Church of Canada April
27, 2005 […]
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Friday, April 29th, 2005
Canada’s Anglican Bishops Agree to Moratorium on Gay Unions
By Ron Csillag
Religion News Service
Windsor, Ontario, April 28 - Canada’s Anglican bishops have unanimously agreed to a moratorium on future church blessings of same-sex relationships, a decision that gives the church two years to study the issue.
Meeting here April 25-27, the bishops agreed “neither to encourage nor to initiate the use of such rites until […]
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Friday, April 29th, 2005
American Indian Church Leader Wants His Peyote Returned
By Celeste Kennel-Shank
Religion News Service
An American Indian church leader in Utah who had thousands of peyote buttons seized by county officials has filed a federal law suit Wednesday (April 27) to get his peyote back.
James “Flaming Eagle” Mooney of the Oklevueha Earthwalks Native American Church in Benjamin, Utah, claims Utah County officials violated his civil […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Interesting!
This is a dust storm on Mars.
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Global terror attacks tripled in 2004
Global terror attacks tripled in 2004
National Counterterrorism Center releases stats after State Department decides not to.
By Tom Regan| csmonitor.com
Terror attacks around the world tripled in 2004, rising from 175 in 2003 to 655 last year, according to statistics released by the US government’s National Counterterrorism Center (NCC) Wednesday. The figure includes the children killed in […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Women share danger | On the front lines
Lt. Dawn Halfaker lost her right arm to a rocket propelled-grenade attack in Iraq, ‘Women in combat is not really an issue,’ she says. ‘It is happening.
Posted 4/28/2005 12:35 AM Updated 4/28/2005 10:13 AM
Surprise insurgency changed war
Female amputees make clear that all troops are on front lines
By Dave Moniz, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Please God, No
Rumsfeld Defends New Nuke Request
United Press International
April 28, 2005
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended an $8 million Pentagon request to study a new class of nuclear weapon Wednesday.
The robust earth-penetrator weapon study would evaluate whether encasing existing small yield nuclear weapons in hardened shells would allow them to destroy deeply buried underground […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
‘Congress should reject this budget,’ mainline leaders say
Thursday, April 28, 2005
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[ENS] — In response to the FY 2006 Budget Conference Report to be considered by
Congress and as a follow-up to a March 8, 2005 press conference calling the
President’s FY ‘06 Budget “unjust,” five mainline denominational leaders issued
the following statement:
On March 8 we, as leaders of the Episcopal Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran
Church […]
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Thursday, April 28th, 2005
Top 10 Martial Arts Movies
In reverse order. Surprisingly, I have only seen two:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Street Fighter
Drunken Master II
Five Fingers of Death
Fist of Legend
Master of the Flying Guillotine
The 36th Chamber of the Shaolin
Five Deadly Venoms
A Touch of Zen
Enter the Dragon