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August 26th, 2010
10:18 PM ET
Hundreds rally at Empire State Building to protest refusal to honor Mother TeresaCNN's Marcia Biggs filed this report from New York: A few hundred people gathered outside New York's Empire State Building on Thursday evening to protest the building owner's decision not to acknowledge Mother Teresa's birthday. The Roman Catholic nun, Nobel Prize winner, and champion of the sick and poor would have been 100 years old on Thursday. Some Catholics had asked the building's owner, Anthony E. Malkin, to bathe the building in blue and white lights in honor of the colors of her order, the Missionaries of Charity. Malkin refused, saying he wanted to avoid setting a precedent for honoring religious figures.
August 26th, 2010
04:18 PM ET
Nuns mark Mother Teresa's 100th birthdayA solemn Mass at the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, marked the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth on Thursday. People from all walks of life gathered at the global headquarters of the order of nuns, which Mother Teresa founded 60 years ago. "It's a great day of joy for all of us to celebrate the gift of Mother's life," said Sister Nirmala, Mother Teresa's immediate successor. "Mother who allowed God to live in her has put a bright light in the world, enlightening the hearts and minds of so many people."
August 26th, 2010
02:53 PM ET
August 26th, 2010
02:38 PM ET
African bishops chide Anglican leader on homosexuality
Bishops from Singapore, Southeast Asia and Africa told Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in closed-door sessions Tuesday and Wednesday that there should be no more diplomacy on homosexuality, an issue that has split the Anglican communion.
August 26th, 2010
02:17 PM ET
Study: Doctors' religious beliefs affect end-of-life care
If you think your beliefs are the only ones that affect your health care, pay attention to this: A doctor's own religious practice can become quite relevant to patient care, especially when end-of-life issues come into play. A new study finds that doctors who are not religious are more likely to take steps to help end a very sick patient's life, and to discuss these kinds of decisions, than doctors who are very religious. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, surveyed more than 8,500 doctors in the United Kingdom across a wide range of specialties such as neurology, palliative care, and general practice.
August 26th, 2010
12:05 PM ET
Acquaintances 'shocked' at film student's arrest in Muslim stabbingA film student suspected of stabbing a New York cab driver after learning the driver was Muslim was described Thursday as someone who worked to build bridges across religious and ethnic boundaries. Those who know Michael Enright, 21, a film student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, are "shocked and dumbfounded" by his arrest, said Robert Chase, the executive director of Intersections International. |
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Conservative Anglican bishops pressed the head of the worldwide church over homosexuality at a conference this week in Uganda, demanding he "sort out" the crisis facing the world's third-largest Christian denomination.
