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• Paterno's long goodbye ends with public memorial (Reuters)
• Muslims call for NYPD chief to resign over movie (AP)
• Fire badly damages 19th century church in Ukraine (AP)
• Austrian priest publishes names of ex-Catholics (AP)
• Politics of Romney's tithing: generous philanthropy or dogmatic Mormonism? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Alaska Airlines ends decades-old prayer card tradition (Reuters)

Paterno's long goodbye ends with public memorial (Reuters) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 04:51 PM PST Reuters - The son of late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno told 10,000 mourners on Thursday his father died "with a clear conscience," and former players shared why they worshipped the man in a final goodbye to the legendary "JoePa."

Muslims call for NYPD chief to resign over movie (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 03:06 PM PST AP - Muslim groups are calling for New York's police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say puts their religion and its adherents in a bad light.

Fire badly damages 19th century church in Ukraine (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 08:54 AM PST AP - Emergency officials say a fire has badly damaged a 19th-century Orthodox church in southern Ukraine, including collapsing its dome.

Austrian priest publishes names of ex-Catholics (AP) Posted: 26 Jan 2012 06:07 AM PST AP - The Vienna archdiocese has apologized for the publication of a list of people who have formally left the Roman Catholic church.

Politics of Romney's tithing: generous philanthropy or dogmatic Mormonism? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 06:00 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As Republican candidate Mitt Romney’s voluminous tax returns sink into the American psyche, some line items stand out for sheer size, most notably his contributions to the Mormon church.

Alaska Airlines ends decades-old prayer card tradition (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jan 2012 05:13 PM PST Reuters - Alaska Airlines, America's seventh-largest carrier in terms of passenger traffic, said on Wednesday that it would end a decades-old tradition of handing out prayer cards with its in-flight meals.

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