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BRIEF: Book reading to raise money for Youth Emergency Services of Ponderay County

On May 31 Venerable Thubten Chodron, founder of Sravasti Abbey, will read from her latest book, "Don't Believe Everything You Think" to raise money for youth in Ponderay County. YES provides for homeless teens, of which there are more than 100 in the Ponderay County area.
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BREAKING NEWS: Director of local health ministries program disappears in Kiev

| May 14, 2013

Upper Columbia Conference Health Ministries Director Dr. Jay Sloop disappeared today while walking in Kiev, Ukraine. According to a press release Sloop has been in the Ukraine with a team of health professionals for the past three weeks helping the local Adventist church set up a lifestyle center in Kiev.
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Catholic population surges across the Global South

| May 14, 2013

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Gains in Asia and Africa are making up for losses in Europe among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, according to Vatican statistics released Monday (May 13), signaling a shift of the church’s center of gravity toward the Global South that was heralded by the election of the first Latin American pope.
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Dalai Lama says affection can change the world

| May 13, 2013

After spending three days listening to His Holiness the Dalai Lama teach in Oregon, the Venerable Thubten Jampa, of Sravasti Abbey, is still processing the experience. “What I really found amazing,” she said, “was when he went to leave, then turned back, and said ‘I’m the same as you. You have the same potential I have.’”
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Dalai Lama urges media to educate the public

| May 11, 2013

PORTLAND — Before taking questions from the press Saturday morning, the Dalai Lama had something to say. Pointing to eager reporters in the room he said, “We are all part of humanity,” reminding them that they, too, are responsible for making change.
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Pope tells nuns to be spiritual mothers, not ‘spinsters’

| May 8, 2013

Pope Francis on Wednesday (May 8) told leaders of women’s orders from around the world to be “fertile” spiritual mothers in the Catholic Church, not “spinsters.” The Argentine pontiff addressed some 800 leaders of female religious orders who are in Rome for the meeting of the International Union of Superiors General.
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Spokane Islamic Center hires imam

| Apr 25, 2013

Sitting in a semi-circle with Qurans resting open in their laps, they one by one recited the melodic verses, glancing questioningly up at their imam between lines. He smiled at their correct pronunciations, corrected them when their intonations or pauses were off.
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Former National Council of Churches leader Bob Edgar dead at 69

| Apr 23, 2013

The Rev. Bob Edgar, a Democratic congressman and United Methodist minister who went on to lead the National Council of Churches through a painful series of restructuring cuts, died suddenly Tuesday (April 23) at age 69.
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Muslim leaders: We stand against terrorism

| Apr 19, 2013

American Muslim leaders said they stand against terrorism committed in the name of Islam, trying to distance themselves from the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings who were identified as Muslims with ties to Chechnya. "We will never allow ourselves to be hijacked by this attempt, and we will not allow the perception to be that there is any religion in the world that condones the taking of innocent life," said Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Immigration reform gets personal for evangelicals

| Apr 11, 2013

For Southern Baptist Pastor David Uth, immigration reform became a priority after a family in his Orlando, Fla., megachurch faced deportation. Bishop Ricardo McClin says it was time to speak up when members of a Church of God congregation he oversaw stopped worshipping in Jacksonville, Fla., because they feared detention.
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Spokane woman earns difficult, rare Buddhist leadership certification

| Apr 9, 2013

The Rev. Christine Marr once called herself a “book Buddhist.” She read about the faith and studied its philosophies, but didn’t belong to a sangha. She didn’t know she needed one, she said.
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