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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care are rarely far from the headlines, but they are especially hot topics given the furor over the decision -- later rescinded -- by the Susan G. Komen foundation to end most of its grants to Planned Parenthood.]]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>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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				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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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>Osama bin Laden killed: Assessing the aftermath</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/topic_110502.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 04:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Current edition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[News that U.S. troops have killed Osama bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda and mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is a stunning development that is bound to spark a range of reactions — jubilation for many, anger for others, and for some believers, a debate over whether this was the moral and ethical course of action.]]></description>
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		<title>Scientology in the dock: News spotlights star-studded religion</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/topic_110322.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scientology always has a high profile owing to its many celebrity adherents, but recent headlines have not always been good news for the church. A lengthy New Yorker article profiled the defection of director and screenwriter Paul Haggis, for example, and revealed that the FBI is investigating Scientology on human trafficking allegations.]]></description>
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		<title>The season of Lent: Penance, forgiveness and renewal</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/topic_110303.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holiday ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The penitential season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 9, and runs until Holy Week in April. This period is traditionally viewed as a time of personal spiritual reflection for Christians marked by an effort to repent for sins. But how do people forgive each other, and themselves? How do we deal with guilt?]]></description>
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		<title>Middle East turmoil: A secular or religious revolt &#8212; or both?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionlink.com/topic_11021.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Current edition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular protests continue to roil the Middle East, spreading from Tunisia and Egypt to Bahrain and Libya and elsewhere. Speculation is rife about what could come next, but also about the role Islam could play in reconfigured Arab countries -- and what role religion is playing in sparking the current revolts.]]></description>
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