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Jailed Cuban dissident dies in hunger strike
World NowA Cuban dissident serving a four-year prison term has died after staging a hunger strike to protest his incarceration, human rights groups say. Wilman Villar, 31, died Thursday night in a hospital where authorities had transferred him after he fell ill,... -
Death toll rises to more than 150 in attacks in Nigerian city
World NowMore than 150 people were killed in the northern Nigerian city of Kano in Friday's terror attacks, which saw suicide bombers and gunmen from the northern Nigerian terror group Boko Haram hit several police stations and other government buildings.... -
House approves bill to allow religious symbols on war memorials
Nation NowThe House on Tuesday approved a measure that seeks to permit religious symbols in war memorials, a response to a court ruling declaring unconstitutional a cross atop a San Diego war memorial.... -
Tithing: In the news (ask Mitt Romney) but also in Old Testament
Nation NowMitt Romney's tithe: Politics and religion, sometimes antagonistic but oftimes entwined, share a common need. Whether from campaign contributions or tithing, both need to raise money.... -
This Sunday: Pico Iyer's Greene agenda and more
Jacket CopyPico Iyer's meditation on the life of Graham Greene leads our Sunday books coverage.... -
Afghanistan's foiled 10-year-old suicide bombers come back for more
Opinion L.A.When religious leaders find it acceptable to use children as bombs, it says something terrible about the values of our enemies.... -
Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat
Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...Tags: Barbra Streisand, Des Moines Register, Bob Dylan, Political Fundraising, Walter Mondale
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Carlos J. Moorhead dies at 89; former Republican congressman for 24 years
Former Rep. Carlos J. Moorhead, a Republican who represented Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena and surrounding communities for 24 years in Congress, died Nov. 23, his family announced. He was 89.
A Glendale resident, Moorhead died at an assisted-living...Tags: Television Industry, World War II (1939-1945), Religion and Belief, Elections, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Book review: 'Inside Scientology' by Janet Reitman
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSmall wonder that L. Ron Hubbard had the creative chops to parlay his 1950s self-help system, Dianetics, into a worldwide religion — and a very lucrative one at that. Hubbard was, after all, a science-fiction writer, a dreamer, a charming teller...Tags: Cults and Sects, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Human Interest, Internal Revenue Service, Scientology
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Patt Morrison Asks: George Regas, keeping faith
Yep, that was George Regas in that photo — the man in the purple ecclesiastical robe and handcuffs. The rector emeritus of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena chose to get busted this month outside the downtown federal building protesting the...Tags: Iraq, Judaism, Human Rights, Political Candidates, Internal Revenue Service
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Tim Rutten: Old-time religion, today's politics
In the midst of a hotly contested presidential election a little more than half a century ago, John Kennedy went to Houston to give the most important speech of his campaign. No Catholic ever had been elected to the White House, and the young...Tags: Rick Perry, Baptist, Judaism, Religious Texts, Elections
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