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August 8th, 2010
06:44 PM ET
7 Baha'is sentenced to 20 years in Iran, group saysSeven Baha'i leaders in Iran have each received 20-year prison sentences, according to reports received by the Baha'i International Community, the group said Sunday. "If this news proves to be accurate, it represents a deeply shocking outcome to the case of these innocent and harmless people," said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations. Word of the sentences came from an Iranian-based group called the Committee of Human Rights Defenders, according to Diane Ala'i, another Baha'i U.N representative. The Baha'i International Community is working to confirm the reports, she said.
August 8th, 2010
03:53 PM ET
Dispatch: Church mourns congregant killed in AfghanistanCNN producer Ross Levitt filed this report from an upstate New York church that lost a congregant in last week's attack on aid workers in Afghanistan:
"Four weeks ago, Tom Little stood right here," an emotional Stan Key, senior pastor, told the congregation.
August 8th, 2010
03:22 PM ET
Opinion: Same-sex marriage will hurt families, society
Editor's note: Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr. is senior pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, and founder and Chairman of the High Impact Leadership Coalition (HILC). He shares his thoughts on traditional marriage in "The Black Pulpit," a weekly series of opinion pieces that explores faith in the black community. CNN's "Black in America: Churched" premieres October 14. By Bishop Harry R. Jackson Jr., Special to CNN The institution of marriage is unique. It is the one institution that binds women and men together to form a family, and this serves broad societal purposes. In California, a U.S. District Court Judge last week overturned Proposition 8, the California Marriage Protection Act. It was passed in November 2008 by California voters to recognize "only marriage between a man and a woman." The majority of Californians, including two-thirds of the state's black voters, have just had their core civil right - the right to vote - stripped from them by an openly gay federal judge who has misread history and the Constitution to impose his views on the state's people.
August 8th, 2010
10:15 AM ET
Developer behind 'ground zero' Islamic center: 'This is not about the World Trade Center'
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Q: Why not have this center a little further away from the World Trade Center instead of just two blocks right there? There probably wouldn’t be much opposition… A: This is not about the World Trade Center. This is not about a particular location. |
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More than 400 people gathered Sunday at Loudonville Community Church in Loudonville, New York, to honor Tom Little (pictured with wife Libby), an optometrist who was among 10 people in a medical team killed by gunmen in northeastern Afghanistan.
