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...Still, the faithful say they have much to learn from the current Pope. Susan Addinall, a high school teacher from Sydney leading a pilgrimage of 43 students, came to pray for the Pontiff outside Gemelli hospital on Wednesday. "He is still our spiritual advisor," she told TIME. "Now he teaches us how much love and peace and hope can come out of suffering - and that death is not something to be feared...
...Americans. So at a time when religious faith is increasingly worn on public sleeves--most prominently that of the President--a dispute that dates back to the celebrated 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial" is being replayed around the country in legislatures, courts, school-board meetings and parent-teacher conferences. School administrators in rural Dover, Pa., visited biology classes last week to read a declaration proclaiming, among other things, that "Darwin's theory [of evolution] ... is a theory, not a fact." And in suburban Cobb County, Ga., officials pasted stickers on biology textbooks declaring the same thing and are now appealing...
...Racing across scrub and farmland, this blaze was no ordinary grass fire. It was one of the fastest-moving ever seen, says South Australian Country Fire Service ceo Euan Ferguson: most of its destructive work was done in just six hours. At the township of North Shields, where teacher Helen Castle was killed, residents jumped into the sea to escape the flames. "We had very experienced fire fighters out there, and the rate of spread of this fire was beyond their comprehension." As it gathered speed, hundreds of fire-fighters and locals risked their lives trying to stop...
...both the U.S.-backed South and communist North Vietnam. Exiled in France, he traveled to the U.S. frequently, helped inspire Martin Luther King Jr. to oppose the war, and led a Buddhist delegation to the 1969 Paris Peace talks. After the war, Nhat Hanh became a revered meditation teacher and a public face of Buddhism second only to the Dalai Lama. He founded three monasteries in the U.S. and one in France and taught tens of thousands his concepts of "engaged Buddhism," which emphasizes meditation, peace and social justice. His 80 published books have sold 1.5 million copies...
...Southern Baptist Sunday-school teacher, I tell my students what most of us here in the Bible Belt believe: the Scripture is the inerrant word of God, given by inspiration to the writers of the Bible. That Matthew and Luke record different details makes neither of them inaccurate. Nor does the fact that some of this information cannot be corroborated by other sources?that's why we call it faith. Karen Rogers Chattanooga, Tennessee...