http://news.spirithit.com/ Religious and Spiritual News en leonid@spirithit.com admin@spirithit.com Copyright © 2005 SpiritHit.com hourly 2 2005-06-06T17:19:00-05:00 http://news.spirithit.com/images/rss/spirithit.gif http://news.spirithit.com/ 137 24 Kiev, Ukraine -- A document regarding start of unification of the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Kievan patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox church (UAPTs) was signed… http://news.spirithit.com/index/europe/more/merging_ukrainian_orthodox_churches/ 2005-06-06T16:25:01-05:00 UK -- An end to the centuries-old division over the place of the Virgin Mary in the Church came closer this week after the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) said… http://news.spirithit.com/index/europe/more/end_to_divisions_over_virgin_mary/ 2005-05-19T18:59:01-05:00 Vatican City -- Among the pilgrims present for Pope Benedict XVI’s Wednesday audience this morning were Bob and Mary Schindler—parents of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman, who… http://news.spirithit.com/index/europe/more/pope_meets_with_schiavo_parents/ 2005-05-18T18:38:01-05:00 Occupied Jerusalem -- Palestinians stood up Monday, June 6, to attempts by extremist Jews, backed by Israeli police, to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark Israel's occupation of Arab… http://news.spirithit.com/index/middle_east/more/police_backed_jewish_extremists_try_to_storm_al_aqsa/ 2005-06-06T17:19:00-05:00 Geneva -- Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu and other religious leaders will gather in here June 7-9 at the invitation of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to promote inter-religious… http://news.spirithit.com/index/europe/more/beyond_dialogue/ 2005-06-06T17:05:01-05:00 Vatican -- Pope John Paul's long-time private secretary says the late pontiff's personal papers have been saved and not burned as he requested. Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz,… http://news.spirithit.com/index/europe/more/pope_john_pauls_papers_preserved/ 2005-06-06T16:53:01-05:00 The U.S. military Friday released the details of five incidents in which guards mishandled the Koran at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An investigation by the base commander, Brigadier… http://news.spirithit.com/index/north_america/more/us_military_gives_details_of_mishandling_of_koran_at_guantanamo/ 2005-06-06T14:58:02-05:00 Athens -- The Conference on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) has issued a letter to the Christian world in which it calls on churches everywhere to become healing and reconciling communities… http://news.spirithit.com/index/europe/more/mission_gathering_sends_letter_to_churches/ 2005-05-19T20:45:02-05:00 Washington -- A federal appeals court has ruled that the phrase “In God We Trust” on a government building does not violate the separation of church and state. The Fourth Circuit… http://news.spirithit.com/index/north_america/more/court_in_god_we_trust_ok_on_building/ 2005-05-19T19:51:01-05:00 An Islamic civil rights group is urging all "people of conscience" to support a Democrat-sponsored resolution recognizing that the Koran, like the holy book of any other religion,… http://news.spirithit.com/index/north_america/more/house_resolution_urges_respect_for_koran/ 2005-05-19T19:28:00-05:00 World Refugee Day is June 20, and congregations and communities across the United States and around the world are planning events throughout June to recognize the plight, and celebrate the contributions,… http://news.spirithit.com/index/society/more/cws_plans_world_refugee_day_events/ 2005-05-10T20:35:01-05:00 The Afghan police are investigating the stoning to death of a woman for allegedly committing adultery. “We have sent a delegation to the area to verify the truth of the issue,” Lieutenant… http://news.spirithit.com/index/society/more/afghan_police_probe_woman_stoning_over_adultery/ 2005-04-25T20:33:00-05:00 A bill that would have legalized euthanasia throughout Europe, following the Belgian and Dutch models, has been rejected by a vote of 128 to 56 in the Parliamentary Assembly of the European Council.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/health/more/ec_rejects_legalization_of_euthanasia/ 2005-04-29T21:50:00-05:00 Death is certain but the time of death is uncertain. So unless we are familiar with what goes on at the time of death, it can be a very traumatising experience, not only for the dying but their… http://news.spirithit.com/index/health/more/facing_death/ 2005-04-05T00:27:01-05:00 A Christian group in the US state of Kentucky is creating a US$25 million theme-park type tourist centre called The Creation Museum to promote the idea that God created the world in six, 24-hour… http://news.spirithit.com/index/culture_art/more/creation_museum_stirs_evolution_debate/ 2005-06-06T15:35:01-05:00 Billed as what was to be one of the summer’s major blockbusters, Ridley Scott’s new big-dollar action film, Kingdom of Heaven, is, at best, drawing mixed reviews from film critics.… http://news.spirithit.com/index/culture_art/more/150_million_cant_buy_kingdom_of_heaven/ 2005-05-10T21:04:02-05:00 On the shores of the Sea of Galilee, at Nof Ginosar Kibbutz, an ancient boat sits in a modern museum. It is the "Jesus Boat" as it has come to be known, because scientific testing dates… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/discovery_of_ancient_boat_brings_peace/ 2005-04-20T23:02:00-05:00 Alan Wallace, one of the preeminent Western scholars of Tibetan Buddhism, stressed the importance of introspection as a mode of academic inquiry in the first annual Mary Interlandi '05 Lecture… http://news.spirithit.com/index/sci_tech/more/between_buddhist_introspection_and_western_science/ 2005-04-20T22:36:01-05:00 If you're spending your life living in the past or waiting for tomorrow, wake up and smell the roses. Not sure how? Aspects of the Buddhist tradition of mindfulness can help you live in the… http://news.spirithit.com/index/articles/more/here_and_now/ 2005-05-02T19:19:00-05:00 Typically, homesickness plagues teenagers away on their first summer camp or soldiers far from family and safety. But what I propose is that we all suffer a deep homesickness for the Divine-… http://news.spirithit.com/index/articles/more/divine_homesickness/ 2005-04-20T23:33:00-05:00 A gripping investigation into the extraordinary phenomenon of Virgin Mary sightings around the world, the priests and scientists who investigate them, and a powerful examination about what constitutes… http://news.spirithit.com/index/book_reviews/more/the_miracle_detective_an_investigation_of_holy_visions/ 2005-02-21T00:41:00-05:00 The Gnostic Gospels is a landmark study of the long-buried roots of Christianity, a work of luminous scholarship and wide popular appeal. First published in 1979 to critical acclaim, winning… http://news.spirithit.com/index/book_reviews/more/the_gnostic_gospel/ 2005-02-21T00:07:00-05:00