News - March, 2012

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Mitt Romney trouncing Rick Santorum among Catholics

Mar 05, 2012 by Daniel Burke

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) Mitt Romney has trounced Rick Santorum, an ardent Catholic, among Catholic voters, but Romney's support among evangelicals has wavered thus far in the GOP presidential primary, according to a new analysis of exit poll data.

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Senate rejects conscience clause change to contraception rule

Mar 02, 2012 by Daniel Burke

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) The Senate on Thursday (March 1) defeated a Republican-led bid to insert a broad religious exemption into a federal mandate that requires most employers and health insurance companies to provide free contraception coverage.

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William Hamilton, who said 'God is Dead,' dies at 87

Mar 02, 2012 by Nancy Haught

c. 2012 Religion News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) William Hamilton, the retired theologian who declared in the 1960s that God was dead, died Tuesday (Feb. 28) in his downtown Portland apartment. He was 87.

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Minnesota church learns price of supporting gays

Mar 02, 2012 by Annalisa Musarra

A small Minnesota church is finding out the high cost of standing up for same-sex equality—while also receiving an unexpected lifeline from the very people it decided to support.

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John Hick, influential philosopher of religion

Mar 01, 2012 by John Dart

John H. Hick, a prolific author re­nowned on British and U.S. campuses for his forthright approach to major questions in Christology and interfaith relations, died at age 90 on February 9 in Birmingham in his native Great Britain.