2010 Earthquakes

Nearly 400 people are feared dead after a rapid series of strong earthquakes hit a mountainous and impoverished area of China’s Qinghai province early Wednesday, state-run media said. At least 10,000 others were injured..

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PARL Alert: Sunday Observance Bill Causes Stir on The Marshall Islands

“..there is a general feeling in the community that “the nation has been growing too secular and a Christian nation should encourage church attendance.” There is also a concern of drunkenness on Sunday that is “causing problems when others are trying to worship.”

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Pope Stresses Christian Unity At Lutheran Church

Pope Benedict told Rome’s Lutheran congregation on Sunday that Protestants and Roman Catholics should be thankful for all the unity achieved..

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Religious-related Disasters

The deaths came as the crowd jostled with each other to get free food, clothes and utensils being distributed to the poor during a religious ceremony.

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2010 Flooding, Landslides, and Avalanches

China Drought Affects Millions
CHINA | Mar 17 2010 | AFP – Millions of people face drinking water shortages in southwestern China because of a once-a-century drought that has dried up rivers and threatens vast farmlands, state media reported Wednesday.

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U.K. Religious Schools Forced To Promote Homosexuality

..school’s religious character,” does not, in fact, give the schools freedom to oppose abortion, contraception and homosexual activity on moral grounds..Balls went on to thank Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the head of the English Catholic Bishops’ Conference..for their support of the bill.

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College Professors Are More Likely to Believe ‘Ten Commandments are Irrelevant Today’

(CNSNews.com | February 22, 2010) – College professors are more likely than the average person to believe that the Ten Commandments are irrelevant today — and to think that America is a corrupting influence on good people, according to a new study released Monday.

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