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November 23rd, 2010
01:35 PM ET
Anglican bishops convert to CatholicismUnwilling to accept women bishops, five Anglican bishops quit the church. CNN's Richard Allen Greene reports. 
November 23rd, 2010
11:06 AM ET
Tentative trial date set for sexual coercion suits against pastorThe prominent Georgia pastor being sued for sexual coercion by four men will face his accusers in court next summer if the cases cannot be settled through mediation before then. Attorneys representing Bishop Eddie Long and the men suing him met with a judge in a DeKalb County courtroom Friday for a status conference hearing, said Wendy Guarisco, spokeswoman for attorney B.J. Bernstein, who represents the plaintiffs. During the hearing, the judge set a tentative trial date of July 11, but both parties have agreed to meet for mediation, which is expected to be held in February, according to CNN affiliate WSB-TV in Atlanta. In September, the men filed separate lawsuits against Long and his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. 
November 23rd, 2010
09:30 AM ET
Was Jesus a communist or a capitalist?Editor's Note: By CNN's Gabe La Monica At the inner Washington offices of the American Enterprise Institute, I pitted the question to Shane Claiborne and Peter Greer, both Christian advocates for the poor. They had just participated in an in-depth discourse moderated by Eric Teetsel at AEI about the existential nature of charity. Claiborne is a lanky, tall fellow with long dreadlocks, earrings and a goatee. The founding member of the Simple Way community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, responded: “Jesus wasn’t anything that ended in “ist” - he was an existential lover - but I think that he was challenging all these systems, and he was pulling the best of the people in those systems out.” 
November 23rd, 2010
09:22 AM ET
Official: Pakistani Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemyEditor's Note: From CNN's Reza Sayah in Islamabad, Pakistan A preliminary investigation shows that a Pakistani Christian woman has been falsely accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed, a government official said Monday. "The president asked me to investigate her case and my preliminary findings show she is innocent and the charges against her are baseless," Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti told CNN. Asia Bibi, who has been jailed for nearly 15 months. was convicted in a Pakistani court earlier this month of breaking the country's controversial blasphemy law, a crime punishable with death or life imprisonment, according to Pakistan's penal code. She was sentenced to death. Bibi filed a petition for mercy Saturday, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari asked Bhatti to investigate the case, Bhatti said.
November 23rd, 2010
07:56 AM ET
Pope makes frank comments in new bookPope Benedict XVI discusses some of the biggest issues facing the Catholic church in a book of interviews being released Tuesday - a book that has already caused controversy over his remarks on condoms. The pope says in the book that condoms may be justified in certain exceptional circumstances to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS, even though the Roman Catholic Church firmly opposes condoms and other artificial contraception. "There could be single cases that can be justified, for instance when a prostitute uses a condom, and this can be a first step towards a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility, to develop again the awareness of the fact that not all is allowed and that one cannot do everything one wants," Benedict says in the book, "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times." "However, this is not the true and proper way to defeat the infection of HIV," he added, saying the "humanization of sexuality" was the best method. |
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