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			<title>Some Afghan women say death by fire is their only choice</title>
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			<description>Simagol Yousefi was only 20 when her husband, Abdul, traveled to Iran to find work, leaving her and their two young sons in the care of her in-laws.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>California Supreme Court says breakaway parish can&#039;t take national church&#039;s property</title>
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			<description>The ruling comes after a Newport Beach parish split from the U.S. Episcopal church over the ordination of a gay bishop. Other denominations could be affected.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Activist D.C. Church Embraces Transition in Name of Its Mission</title>
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			<description>The Church of the Saviour was never a conventional church. It has no pews, no Sunday school, not even a Christmas service.</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Burris at church rally: &#039;I am now the junior senator&#039;</title>
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			<description>Roland Burris was confident but conceded Sunday that conflicts lie ahead as the choice of embattled Gov. Blagojevich to fill the U.S. Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Liberty Counsel advances views on religious freedom through the courts</title>
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			<description>In the early 1980s, Mathew Staver saw a video that would change the trajectory of his career.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Jerry Brown wins praise, criticism for stance on Proposition 8</title>
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			<description>A generation ago, then-Gov. Jerry Brown&#039;s conscientious stand against the death penalty prompted a revolt in the Legislature and eventually spurred voters to throw out his appointee as chief justice of the California Supreme Court.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Spain Is a Key Battleground for Catholic Church’s Future </title>
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			<description>The Mac&iacute;as Picavea primary school hardly looks like the seat of revolution.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Nearly 1,300 arrested in Muslim region of China</title>
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			<description>The authorities in the western desert region of Xinjiang in China approved the arrests of nearly 1,300 people in the first 11 months of last year on suspicion of &quot;endangering state security,&quot; according to a report published Sunday in an official  newspaper.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>For Goodness Sake? </title>
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			<description>Just before the end of 2008, the Pew Forum on Religion &amp; Public Life released a report indicating that a significant percentage of American evangelicals are rejecting the biblical claim that Jesus is the only way of salvation.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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			<title>Congress Looks Like the People</title>
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			<description>When it comes to religious affiliation, diversity reigns on Capitol Hill.</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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