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RAP GETS RELIGION:
Special to The Times"The gangs have the right idea!" A-Man shouts from the flatbed of a semi-truck trailer serving as the stage for Hip Hop Church America outside the Crystal Cathedral on a hot fall afternoon. "But instead of killing each other they should be out there...Tags: Politics, Religious Texts, Mase, Minority Groups, MC Hammer
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It's a campaign, not a crusade
GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has done it again -- he said "Merry Christmas." On television. In a campaign ad that first aired in Iowa on Dec. 18, he conspicuously declined to say "Happy Holidays," the sappy all-purpose greeting favored by the...Tags: Politics, Mormonism, Culture, Sinclair Lewis, Religious Conflicts
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Fellini's Rome
Times Staff WriterHe was 18 and inexperienced — in all respects — when he came to Rome in 1938. For Federico Fellini, it was the beginning of a love affair that lasted more than 50 years. Rome dazzled and indulged him. It fed the dreams he turned into such...Tags: Academy Awards, Bernardo Bertolucci, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Tourism and Leisure, Rome (Italy)
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A spot of tea and British history
Special to The TimesI spent a great deal of time at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church on a recent trip to London. But I wasn't praying. I had tea in the church's dramatic 18th century Cafe-in-the-Crypt. I took in a free lunchtime concert and a candlelit nighttime performance....Tags: Air Transportation Industry, World War I (1914-1918), Arable Farming, U.S. Airways, Potatoes
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Poll Analysis: Priests Satisfied With Their Lives
Times Poll DirectorDespite the serious, ongoing problem that the American Roman Catholic Church is confronting with the child sexual abuse scandal, priests today are very satisfied with their lives and are more committed to their vows and to the Church they serve than...Tags: Family Planning, Human Mishaps, Roman Catholicism, Abortion, Occupations
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The Blood of the Lambs
Special to The TimesA month after U.S. bombs first fell on Afghanistan, a widow in western Pakistan opened her door to two men with straggling beards, native clothes and skin streaked orange with self-tanning cream. Three weeks earlier, the woman's husband, a Protestant...Tags: White House, Massacres, Religious Texts, Rome (Italy), Air and Space Accidents
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A Narrow Vision and Staggering Violence
Combining the built-in audience of the Bible, the incendiary potential of "The Birth of a Nation" and the marketing genius of "The Blair Witch Project," the arrival of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" feels like a milestone in modern culture. It's...Tags: Academy Awards, Christianity, Ash Wednesday, Death, Monica Bellucci
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Casting a Critical Eye on Church of Castoffs
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterGod himself pulled the needle out of Sonny Arguinzoni's arm, or so the story goes. Grateful, the high school dropout, part-time purse snatcher and hope-to-die heroin addict repaid the miracle with one of his own. From an apartment in a Boyle Heights...Tags: Defense, Corporate Crime, Bill Clinton, Drug Trafficking, Religious Texts
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Gore Vidal's "Live from Gologatha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal"
If God exists and Jesus is His son, then Gore Vidal is going to hell. And if God is a Jew, Vidal is no better off. There's enough to outrage everyone in this audacious and courageous send-up of "the story of Our Lord Jesus Christ as told in the three...Tags: Christianity, Orson Welles, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Gaming
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Operation Christmas Child celebrates 100M shoeboxes
Aiken Standard, S.C.The Aiken Area Operation Christmas Child Team celebrated a milestone on Saturday. Operation Christmas Child, a project through the national nondenominational evangelical Christian organization Samaritan's Purse, has sent 100 million shoeboxes to...Tags: Christianity, Samaritan's Purse, Religion and Belief, Religious Festivals, Holidays
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Boy Scout leaders from across US voting soon on whether openly gay boys should be able to join
AP National WriterWith its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units. The proposal...Tags: The Washington Post, Politics, Roman Catholicism, Minority Groups, Abusive Behavior
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Religions rethinking the sin of suicide
The Salt Lake Tribune reporter Lisa Schencker writes for the Religion News Service about those left behind by the person who commits suicide and how different religions are changing their thinking about the sin of suicide: DRAPER, Utah (RNS) As young...
Tags: Suicide, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Religion and Belief
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