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• Huffington: Bloggers gaining credibility
One of HuffPo's biggest moments came when a volunteer contributor recorded then-candidate Barack Obama at a fund raiser, closed to the press, saying people in small towns grow "bitter" and "cling to guns or religion." "Blogging," Huffington wrote in ...
• Gift-givers get creative in tough economy
... Judith Aplon, 70, of Boulder, Colorado, who was visiting Washington, D.C. "We talk about other countries, where they have religious battles; in India for instance between Hindus and Muslims," she said. "It's just the same here, except our religion is ...
• Muslims worry about image after Mumbai
... Muslims from the Middle East to Britain and Austria condemned Sunday the Mumbai shooting rampage by suspected Islamic militants as senseless terrorism, but also found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion. ...
• Fearful Christians hope to flee Iraq
And yet, many Christians here say they want to flee a town where their ancestors have lived for generations and, if possible, to abandon a country where their religion has survived for some 2,000 years — longer than in Europe — but one they fear ...
• China increases police presence in Tibet town
Such mandatory campaigns — which stress that religion must never veer into political action — have been used repeatedly to keep the clergy in line. Heavy hand Beijing maintains the Dalai Lama is promoting secession, not reconciliation, and that the ...