Pardonable SIN

BY HEATHER HAHN

When Laura Waters Hinson visited Rwanda in 2006, she was stunned to see the survivors of genocide living side by side in peace with people who had murdered their friends and family. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Wolfe Street Center founder inspires book

BY FRANK LOCKWOOD

Eugene “Geno W.” Walter didn’t need a wakeup call or an alarm clock on Sunday mornings. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Jewish population booms in Germany

BY MARTIN C. EVANS NEWSDAY

MUNICH, Germany — No one needs to explain the horrors of Kristallnacht to Lauren Rid. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Jews suspect Mormons still baptizing

BY DEEPTI HAJELA AND JENNIFER DOBNER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Holocaust survivors said Monday that they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Real evangelicals praise God in bar

BY MARK BARNA MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On a recent Sunday evening, 23 people, most of them in their 20s, trickled into the Thirsty Parrot as a band blasted rock music from the nightclub’s main stage. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Obama has yet to pick church since distancing from Wright

BY DEANNA BELLANDI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — His name was invoked at church services nationwide Sunday, but Presidentelect Obama didn’t attend any of them. He went to the gym instead. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Bosnia’s multiethnic army: New role model for peace?

BY AIDA CERKEZ-ROBINSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina — It took 60,000 NATO troops to force Bosnians like Edin Ahmetovic, Pero Budimir and Slobodan Misanovic to stop shooting at each other. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Women enjoy freedom in 2 new Tehran parks

BY LADANE NASSERI BLOOMBERG NEWS

TEHRAN, Iran — A woman clad in a red T-shirt plays an Iranian drum in a Tehran park as her teenage daughter dances nearby, her hair flowing in the air. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Calendar

— Christie Storm

WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES The Rev. Thad Moore preaches during the 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. worship services Sundays at Bella Vista Community Church, 75 E. Lancashire Blvd. (479) 855-1126. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Religious police strike out anew

BY RAED RAFEI LOS ANGELES TIMES

BEIRUT, Lebanon — When the men from the Committee to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice arrived unexpectedly at a shopping mall in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the trendy Saudi youth in their Western-style attire were scared to death. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Marriage law sired church alliance

BY BATTHAI KURUVILA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well: Mormons. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

Florida church faces possible foreclosure, bankruptcy

BY SHERRI DAY ST. PETERSBURG (FLA.) TIMES

TAMPA, Fla. — In a service notable for its unusual content, the Rev. Randy White, pastor of Without Walls International Church, laid bare the church’s financial situation Sunday and its bid to stave off foreclosure of its two locations. - Saturday, November 15, 2008

New college program welcomes Rwandans

— Heather Hahn

Gilbert Ndayambaje was 5 when genocide erupted in Rwanda in 1994. He lost uncles, aunts and cousins, and the rest of his family, a mixture of Hutus and Tutsis, managed to survive only by fleeing to a United Nations refugee camp. - Saturday, November 15, 2008