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• 'The Bible' TV miniseries will get NBC sequel
• Top Vatican bank managers resign after Monsignor's arrest
• 'The Bible' Finally Gets a Sequel
• Vatican bank director, deputy resign amid scandal
• Mark Burnett's 'The Bible' Sequel gets greenlight - at NBC, not History
• Yoga in school not same as teaching religion, California judge rules
• Records: Dolan warned Vatican of sex abuse scandal
• Calif. judge says public school yoga not religious
• Vatican: Director and deputy of embattled Vatican bank resign amid broadening finance scandal
• Vatican turns its sights on alleged cash-smuggling priest
• Arrested Vatican monsignor 'only helping friends'
• Cooperstown museum opens exhibit of Hudson River School artists; Cole, Church works on display
• Judge to rule on whether yoga tied to religion
• Pope chooses migrant-flooded Lampedusa in first trip out of Rome
• Lawyers seeks house arrest for Vatican monsignor
• Vatican monsignor questioned in corruption plot
• Pope's 1st encyclical: 'Light of Faith' due Friday

'The Bible' TV miniseries will get NBC sequel Posted: 01 Jul 2013 05:03 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Bible" is getting a sequel. U.S. television network NBC said on Monday that it will produce a follow-up to the History Channel's popular miniseries "The Bible," which topped ratings when it premiered in March. The sequel, which does not have an expected air or production date, has the working title "A.D.: Beyond the Bible," picks up in the time following Jesus Christ's death. It is the first announced project of Comcast Corp-owned NBC's long-from programming initiative. The History Channel's miniseries drew strong ratings for a cable program. It averaged 11. ...

Top Vatican bank managers resign after Monsignor's arrest Posted: 01 Jul 2013 04:18 PM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Two top managers of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank resigned on Monday following the arrest of a high-ranking cleric with close ties to the financial institution, in the latest of a string of embarrassments for the Holy See. Director Paolo Cipriani and deputy-director Massimo Tulli stepped down three days after the Vatican was rocked by the arrest of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, who is accused of plotting with two other people to smuggle 20 million euros into Italy from Switzerland. ...

'The Bible' Finally Gets a Sequel Posted: 01 Jul 2013 03:03 PM PDT Today in show business news: NBC is very into religion, Anna Nicole Smith is a hit again, and Helen Mirren is going to be in your mom's favorite movie.

Vatican bank director, deputy resign amid scandal Posted: 01 Jul 2013 02:59 PM PDT The director of the embattled Vatican bank and his deputy resigned Monday, the latest heads to roll in a broadening finance scandal that has already landed one Vatican monsignor in prison and added urgency ...

Mark Burnett's 'The Bible' Sequel gets greenlight - at NBC, not History Posted: 01 Jul 2013 02:43 PM PDT By Tim Kenneally LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - There will be a sequel to Mark Burnett's successful miniseries "The Bible," but it won't be on the History Channel. Instead, it's moving from the minors to the majors: Burnett and NBC are forging a holy alliance to bring the sequel to the peacock. The sequel, which bears the working title "A.D.: Beyond the Bible," follows the enormously popular 10-part miniseries "The Bible," which drew a huge audience to History earlier this year and is a likely Emmy contender. ...

Yoga in school not same as teaching religion, California judge rules Posted: 01 Jul 2013 01:38 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Yoga in a public school's fitness program does not amount to teaching children religion because despite its roots in Hindu philosophy it is part of American culture, a California judge ruled on Monday. The ruling denied a request by a family in a San Diego suburb to ban the local school district from including yoga in physical education, arguing that it violated the First Amendment and separation of church and state. ...

Records: Dolan warned Vatican of sex abuse scandal Posted: 01 Jul 2013 01:08 PM PDT MILWAUKEE (AP) — As the Archdiocese of Milwaukee prepared to file for bankruptcy amid dozens of claims by victims of clergy sex abuse, then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan sought and received permission from a Vatican office to move $57 million from a cemetery fund into a trust to provide "improved protection," according to documents made public Monday.

Calif. judge says public school yoga not religious Posted: 01 Jul 2013 11:59 AM PDT SAN DIEGO (AP) — A judge is allowing a San Diego-area school district to teach yoga, rejecting the claims of disgruntled parents who called it an effort to promote Eastern religion.

Vatican: Director and deputy of embattled Vatican bank resign amid broadening finance scandal Posted: 01 Jul 2013 11:20 AM PDT Vatican: Director and deputy of embattled Vatican bank resign amid broadening finance scandal.

Vatican turns its sights on alleged cash-smuggling priest Posted: 01 Jul 2013 10:30 AM PDT It reads like the opening chapter of a Dan Brown thriller – a Catholic priest working inside the Vatican recruits a secret service agent and a shadowy financier to smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) in cash from Switzerland to Italy aboard a private plane.

Arrested Vatican monsignor 'only helping friends' Posted: 01 Jul 2013 09:19 AM PDT A Vatican accountant arrested in a 20 million euro ($26 million) smuggling plot acknowledged Monday during questioning that his behavior was wrong but said he was only trying to help out friends, his lawyer ...

Cooperstown museum opens exhibit of Hudson River School artists; Cole, Church works on display Posted: 01 Jul 2013 08:22 AM PDT COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - Some of America's best-loved artwork is going on display in a new exhibit opening in Cooperstown.

Judge to rule on whether yoga tied to religion Posted: 01 Jul 2013 06:46 AM PDT A judge is expected to issue a ruling Monday on whether yoga is a religious practice that shouldn't be allowed to be taught in public schools. An attorney representing a family bent out of shape over the ...

Pope chooses migrant-flooded Lampedusa in first trip out of Rome Posted: 01 Jul 2013 05:34 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis has chosen the southern Italian island of Lampedusa for his first trip outside Rome, to show solidarity with tens of thousands of refugees who each year brave a perilous journey there in flimsy boats, the Vatican said on Monday. The small island, Italy's southernmost point, is the conduit for mostly African immigrants fleeing conflict or economic hardship in order to enter the European Union. ...

Lawyers seeks house arrest for Vatican monsignor Posted: 01 Jul 2013 05:00 AM PDT ROME (Reuters) - Magistrates on Monday questioned Nunzio Scarano, the Vatican prelate detained on suspicion of trying to smuggle tens of millions of euros into Italy, and lawyers asked that he be released into house arrest. "He explained everything he could. He cooperated in an extremely loyal and honest way. He said he was in good faith and at the disposal of the magistrates whenever they needed," lawyer Francesco Grimaldi told reporters outside Rome's Queen of Heaven jail after the three-hour interrogation. ...

Vatican monsignor questioned in corruption plot Posted: 01 Jul 2013 04:50 AM PDT ROME (AP) — A Vatican monsignor arrested in a 20 million euro ($26 million) corruption plot has been questioned by Italian magistrates for the first time and has asked for house arrest.

Pope's 1st encyclical: 'Light of Faith' due Friday Posted: 01 Jul 2013 03:27 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — So much for vacation: Pope Francis on Friday will issue his first encyclical and then will travel to Sicily to meet with recently arrived African migrants.

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