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		<title>Abortion controversies: New developments prompt new debates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abortion rights and health care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl XLVI: Football and faith go prime time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Super Bowl Sunday is a holy day of sorts for the tens of millions of Americans who will watch the big game – at least as many as will attend actual religious services that day. ReligionLink has resources for reporters covering the links between worship on Sunday morning and the spectacle on Sunday evening.]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons in America: A new poll takes the pulse of the LDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion &#038; Public Life explores the views of American Mormons as opposed to the usual focus on how Americans view Mormons. This approach makes the findings especially valuable, and they are an important addition to ReligionLink’s resources on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens, atheist writer, dies: A roundup of reaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA['None': Spiritual but not religious]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens, the famous writer and polemicist whose later years were known for his fierce arguments against religious belief, has died of cancer. His death is being mourned in the growing community of atheists, agnostics, humanists and freethinkers. ReligionLink has a comprehensive guide to groups and leaders in that community.]]></description>
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		<title>Sports and scandal: Religious comparisons and complaints</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Clergy sex abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sports, at the professional and amateur levels, are enormously popular, and yet athletics are also linked to scandal and controversy in today’s headlines. In the case of allegations of child abuse, the crisis in sports recalls the problem in organized religions, and also highlights the nexus between religion and sports.]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and games: A guide to sports and religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After organized worship, athletic competition is perhaps the oldest communal impulse known to mankind, and today sports and religion mirror each other as never before, experts say. But that correlation has negative as well as positive aspects. This edition of ReligionLink provides a guide to these issues.]]></description>
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		<title>Billy Graham at 93: The legacy of &#8216;America&#8217;s pastor&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rev. Billy Graham turns 93 on Nov. 7, but still manages to meet with major public figures on occasion and releases periodic reflections on his life and faith. Indeed, though Graham is infirm and in virtual seclusion in his mountaintop home in North Carolina, his stature and legacy seem to grow as he ages.]]></description>
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		<title>Faith and technology, good or evil: The debate goes on</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus is bigger than Justin Bieber? Christians would say that’s true, of course. But when a Facebook page on Jesus outranks the teen idol, then the wider culture begins to take notice.]]></description>
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		<title>Religion and violence after Sept. 11: Divining the connections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sept. 11 terror attacks seemed to confirm suspicions of some that there is an inherent connection between religion and violence. The 9/11 plotters cited Islam as their inspiration – case closed. But that explanation was considered too simple then, and 10 years later the debate on this controversial topic continues.]]></description>
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		<title>Muslims a decade after 9/11: Assimilation and Islamophobia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 10th anniversary of the terror attacks of Sept. 11 inevitably puts a spotlight on Islam and in particular on the growing Muslim community in the United States. That spotlight reveals both ongoing problems as well as significant progress, and ReligionLink provides a roundup of resources for covering these topics.]]></description>
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