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c. 2012 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Despite continuous attacks on Coptic Christians, a delegation of Egyptian Christian leaders said Wednesday (Feb. 8) they do not support the development of a Christian political party as a possible solution.

Facing growing furor from religious groups, President Obama unveiled an "accommodation" in which health insurance companies, rather than religious institutions, will provide employees with contraception coverage.

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The White House has surprised observers and disappointed some liberal allies by signaling that it is willing to compromise and provide a broader religious exemption in its controversial regulations requiring all employers to provide free contraception coverage.

c. 2012 USA Today WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama's effort to accommodate the Catholic Church by altering his administration's rule on birth control coverage has not appeased the church, congressional Republicans or GOP candidates trying to take his job next year.

c. 2012 Religion News Service NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Everybody has a favorite Whitney Houston song, a memory that makes them stand still and think about how this soulful pop superstar made them feel when they heard her sing.

Philip Weeks fondly remembers the days when his wife of 56 years, June, was a nurse and an artist whose paintings were compared to Rembrandt's. Her paintings still hang in their home in Lynchburg, Virginia, but almost everything else changed for the couple after she was diagnosed with possible Alzheimer's disease and then an acute form of dementia.

c. 2012 Salt Lake Tribune (RNS) Britain's Prince Charles kicked off a yearlong celebration of Charles Dickens' 200th birthday on Tuesday (Feb. 7) with a wreath-laying ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey.