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			<title><![CDATA[Catholic Women at Odds With Church Over Contraception?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Findings from a recent study revealing the use of contraceptives and abortifacients among Catholic women appear to contradict claims made by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in its fight against a government mandate for religious organizations to provide birth control healthcare in insurance packages.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:09:27 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Confessions to Clergy to Be Fair Game in Court?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Michigan appeals court heard arguments Thursday on a case questioning whether a member of the clergy could testify in court about what he learned through a confession.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:36:29 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Clergy Group Pushes Darwinism as Sound Science in 'Evolution Weekend']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[More than 500 churches in ten different countries have agreed to consider this weekend whether Darwinism is compatible with Christianity, as a result of the prompting of The Clergy Letter Project, a group promoting Darwinism as sound science.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:55:58 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Hispanic Churches Coping With Alabama Immigration Law]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hispanic congregations in Alabama are reporting declining numbers of worshippers under the enactment of the state's controversial immigration law, one of the strictest in the nation.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:19:04 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[NY Senate Passes Bill to Reverse School Worship Ban]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The New York Senate passed a bill Monday to reverse the New York City school district's ban on worship services at its schools. Sponsored by Sen. Martin J. Golden, (R-Brooklyn), it passed 54-7.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:26:42 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Wash. Church Hosts Super Bowl Party for the Homeless]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While many people opened up their houses and apartments to friends and family to watch Super Bowl XLVI, one Washington state church decided to invite the homeless.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:16:04 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Presbyterians Considering Elimination of Synods From Church Structure]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As some churches call for less hierarchy in their denominations, one mainline church will consider reducing their structure by eliminating the synod system.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:12:29 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Pastors Answer 'What Is Biblical Femininity?']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A 3-day pastors conference hosted by the Desiring God ministry designed to illuminate what the Bible says about male leadership turned to the subject of what the role for women should be in the Christian community during a panel discussion on the last day of the event.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:46:35 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Church Cancels Worship to Do Charity Work on Super Bowl Sunday]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[While many churches will be observing Super Bowl Sunday with watch parties, one Florida congregation will doing something considerably different.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:54:33 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[John Piper: God Gave Christianity a 'Masculine Feel']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[God's intention for Christianity is for it to have a "masculine feel," evangelist John Piper declared on Tuesday. "God revealed Himself in the Bible pervasively as king not queen; father not mother,"]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:20:22 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Mainline Churches See Slowest Growth, Research Shows]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Compared to other religious groups in the U.S., mainline denominations had the slowest growth rate with only 19 percent of their congregations reporting growth between 2005 and 2010, according to a researcher from The Episcopal Church.]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:02:07 EST</pubDate>        
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Churches Should Resurrect Sunday Evening Services]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Have Sunday morning services become a chore to "get done" at the beginning of the day, simply to be checked off a long list of many weekend to-dos?]]></description>
            
			<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:28:05 EST</pubDate>        
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