Adelle M. Banks

(RNS) Religious leaders are hoping to hit a home run in a campaign to
get Major League Baseball players to ban tobacco use on fields and
dugouts of the national pastime.

WASHINGTON (RNS) As evangelicals and other social conservatives gather
here this weekend (June 3-4) to take the measure of a number of
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(RNS) The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr., announced Tuesday (May 31) that she is leaving an Atlanta-area
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(RNS) The Crystal Cathedral has announced plans to sell its iconic
glass-walled church in Southern California to pay back creditors and
overcome bankruptcy.

Bishop Eddie Long, an Atlanta-area megachurch pastor, has settled
suits out of court with four young men who accused him of sexual
misconduct, his church has announced.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say same-sex relations between
consenting adults should be legal—the highest percentage ever recorded
by Gallup.

(RNS) Radio evangelist Harold Camping, who predicted the Rapture would
occur on May 21, now says his calculations were off by five months.

(RNS) On Sundays, C. Elizabeth Floyd, shows up for worship at Trinity
Baptist Church of Metro Atlanta, with her Bible in hand.

WASHINGTON (RNS) First lady Michelle Obama has asked religious leaders
to join her initiative to assist military families by increasing
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Religious and human rights activists are asking U.S. churches to
invite Jewish and Muslim clergy to their sanctuaries June 26 to read
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(RNS) Evangelist Billy Graham returned home Sunday (May 15) after a
five-day hospital stay for pneumonia.

WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Navy reversed course Tuesday (May 10) on plans
to allow chaplains to officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies once the
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(RNS) Billy Graham's doctor confirmed Thursday (May 12) that the
92-year-old evangelist has pneumonia, but said he is doing well.

WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama assured Hispanic Christians on Thursday
(May 12) that he hears their pleas for immigration reform, calling it a
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WASHINGTON (RNS) A recent Navy memo that would permit military chaplains
to officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies upon repeal of the
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(RNS) More than 20 percent of atheist scientists consider themselves to
be "spiritual," according to a Rice University study.

Following a recent chapel series at Wheaton College on "Sexuality and
Wholeness," gay alumni and other alumni of the school have formed an
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Every now and then, pastor Amy Butler will find herself having to do a
little simultaneous parenting and preaching from her pulpit at Calvary
Baptist Church in downtown Washington.

(RNS) Cancer patients who consider the length of their lives to be "in
God's hands" are more willing than others to spend money on treatments
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(RNS) Evangelist David Wilkerson, who wrote the popular book "The Cross
and the Switchblade" and founded New York's Times Square Church, died in
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