Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Saints raise their city's spirits, maybe for good (AP)
• Being religious may not make you healthier after all (Reuters)
• Japanese monk gets down with the beat for Buddhism (Reuters)
• Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden (AP)
• 34 recovering from carbon monoxide at Pa. church (AP)

Saints raise their city's spirits, maybe for good (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2010 03:20 PM PST AP - People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday's Times-Picayune, which hollered "AMEN!" from its front page. The Saints' Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it.

Being religious may not make you healthier after all (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2010 02:16 PM PST Reuters - Religious people may have taken comfort from a number of studies over the past two decades showing those adhering to a faith tend to be healthier but a new study casts some doubt on this belief.

Japanese monk gets down with the beat for Buddhism (Reuters) Posted: 08 Feb 2010 08:19 AM PST Reuters - He raps. He chants. And this month, Japan's famed hip-hop loving monk, better known as MC Happiness, will tap dance on stage, in the name of Buddhism.

Muslim man wins handshake case in Sweden (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2010 06:52 AM PST AP - Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.

34 recovering from carbon monoxide at Pa. church (AP) Posted: 08 Feb 2010 06:09 AM PST AP - Thirty-four people are recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning apparently caused by a blocked chimney in a northwestern Pennsylvania church.

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