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Search results for "faith" ...
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Foreclosure Crisis
The reporters reveal the underlying flaws in a public-private debacle involving the Obama administration's program that depended on the good faith of mortgage servicers.
Tags: mortgage; foreclosure; housing market; home
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Putting their faith in his hands
The story provides a deep look at the rise of charismatic religious leader Avraham Cohen, how he came to dominate the lives of his devoted followers and became a large if shadowy presence in a small town in northern Wisconsin, and how his plans to create a business empire went awry.
Tags: religion; religious leader; Avraham Cohen; Rama Behera
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Breach of Faith
The investigation revealed extensive corruption in the city of Bell, California. The city's chief administrative officer was receiving a total compensation of $1.5 million -- probably the highest pay for that job anywhere in the country. The assistant city manager, police chief, and part-time council members had exorbitant salaries as well. The city was also illegally raising taxes and giving police daily impound quotas to boost revenue.
Tags: corruption; city government; salary; city funds; revenue
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God, the Army, and PTSD
For many veterans from Iraq, faith plays a major role in recovery. However this article explores how those soldiers whose faiths are shaken from the atrocities of war meet religious treatment with disdain. The role of religion in treating former Iraq veterans is challenged.
Tags: God, religion, war, Iraq, veterans, soldiers, ptsd; traumatic stress disorder; treatment;
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Beyond Tolerance: Search for Interfaith
"This book explains that there is a de-centralized, grassroots movement growing among Americans that emphasizes dialogue and cooperative efforts among people of different faith groups. The general shared purpose of these groups is building understanding and respect among people of different faiths at a time in which religious violence is salient in the world."
Tags: religion; faith; tolerance; Niebuhr, Gustav; interfaith
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Whose Children Are They?
"Focus on Children, a Utah-based adoption agency, is accused by the U.S. government of tricking Samoan parents into giving up their children for adoption and falsely telling American parents they are orphans." The reporter traveled to Samoa to track down families that were affected; she found adoption agency recruiters exploited the families' religious faith, as well as bribed them with cars.
Tags: foreign relations; adoption; kidnapping; Latter Day Saints
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End-Time Christians Promote War with President Bush's Administration
According to close observers of President George W. Bush, End-Time Christian leaders have influenced Bush so that he has become steeped in the ideas of Armageddon, the Apocalypse and war with satanic forces in the Middle East. President Bush is also said to be trying to construct an American theocracy to fulfill God’s end-of-days plan.
Tags: Christianity; end of the world; religious impact; doomsday; faith;
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Losing Faith in "Bishop"
A gentleman identifying himself as "His Grace Bishop Frumentius" offered a $56 million investment to build a housing project on the former Saginaw Fairgrounds. That 57-acre parcel of land was owned by the local Housing Commission, which was being forced to sell it due to a ruling that it had purchased the land without authority. But the bishop was revealed as Daniel Earl Phelps, "a parolee who served 10 years in prison on financial improprieties." Phelps' stated education history as well as the church he said he represented were shown to be nonexistent, with his main history shown to be tales of similar cases in other towns.
Tags: fraud; housing development; religious impersonation; fraudulent bishop
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Hillary's Prayer
Hillary Clinton is involved in a religious prayer circle called "the Fellowship" which includes high-powered politicians that hope to restore Jesus back into Capitol Hill. This article looks into how both politics and faith shape Hillary into the person she is today.
Tags: Christianity; God; Bill Clinton; Senator;
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Faith in Arlan Galbraith, Onario's Pigeon King
The reporters investigated a pigeon breeding business that some people think is a Ponzi scheme. The business, Pigeon King International, is not transparent about its investors or the debt it owes to them.
Tags: business; pyramid scheme; birds; pigeon; investment