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• May 26, 2014

  3 Missing After 'Unbelievably Big' Colorado Mudslide

  Emergency crews were searching for three people missing after an "unbelievably big" mudslide – estimated to be about four miles long, two miles wide and about 250 feet deep – late Sunday in western Colorado's Mesa County.

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  May 26, 2014

  Pope Francis, Patriarch Bartholomew Pray at Holy Sepulchre Church to Promote Christian Unity

  To bridge rifts between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, Pope Francis met and prayer together with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I at the 12th century Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday, the second of his Holy Land tour.

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  May 26, 2014

  Santa Barbara Shooting Suspect Emailed 140-Page Hate Manifesto to Parents; Fatally Stabbed Roommates

  Santa Barbara mass murder suspect Elliot Rodger emailed a 137-page manifesto – with a detailed plan on how he would carry out deadly killings as revenge for rejection by women – to his parents and several others, and stabbed three UCSB students in his apartment before going on a shooting spree, officials said.

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  May 26, 2014

  Republican Gov. Decides After 'Immense Struggle' Not to Appeal Striking of Pa. Same-Sex Marriage Ban

  Pennsylvania's Republican Gov. Tom Corbett decided not to challenge a federal judge's ruling overturning his state's same-sex marriage ban after an "immense struggle" due to "his religious beliefs based on his Catholic upbringing and teachings," an aide says.

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  May 25, 2014

  'I Am a Secular Christian,' Richard Dawkins Admits

  Speaking at a literature festival in Wales, British atheist professor Richard Dawkins admitted that while he surely doesn't believe in the supernatural elements of Christianity, he wouldn't mind being called "a secular Christian."

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  May 25, 2014

  Church of England Dioceses Approve Women Bishops

  All the 44 dioceses of the Church of England have voted to approve ordination of women as bishops, and the change in the denomination's centuries-old practice is now just one step away. The final vote is scheduled for July.

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  May 25, 2014

  Santa Barbara Shooter Says He 'Will Be a God' and People He 'Slaughter' Will Be Animals; Local Church Offers Prayer

  The suspect who killed six people and injured 13 others near the University of California, Santa Barbara Friday night was identified as a 22-year-old mentally disturbed man, Elliot Rodger, who videotaped his desire to "slaughter" women for rejecting him. A church in the area has offered assistance to anyone who needs prayers or counselling.

• May 24, 2014

  Gunman Kills Six in 'Planned Mass Murder' Near UC Santa Barbara

  A gunman sprayed bullets at people late Friday, killing at least six in a drive-by shooting before being found dead from a gunshot wound in his car near the University of California, Santa Barbara. The county sheriff called it "a planned mass murder" by a "severely mentally disturbed" suspect.

• May 24, 2014

  Pope Francis Arrives in Jordan for Holy Land Tour

  Pope Francis arrived in Jordon Saturday afternoon, beginning his three-day tour of the Holy Land accompanied by a rabbi and a Muslim cleric from his home country of Argentina. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has urged that the pope be given access to persecuted Christians.

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  May 24, 2014

  USCIRF Chair Robert George Urges Obama Admin to Add Syria, Pakistan to Worst Religious Offenders' List

  Robert P. George, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, has urged the Obama administration to designate more countries, particularly Syria and Pakistan, as "Countries of Particular Concern" due to their "worst religious freedom environment."