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If someone came to you and asked you how to run the LDS Church's public relations outreach, what would you advise those who make such powerful decisions to do? Would you emphasize the good works that Latter-day Saints do while downplaying doctrinal difference to avoid misunderstanding and strife? Or instead of leaving the doctrine to the missionaries, would you go on the offensive, pointing out anomalies in other faiths in a way that showed the strength of your religious position? How would you use the Book of Mormon? Would you call them to repentance, as the Book of Mormon often...

Geneva/Moscow, Jul. 11, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Leading Protestant figures have criticized the new Vatican document affirming the central role of the Catholic Church, but the Russian Orthodox Church has welcomed the document as an "honest" statement that "shows how close or, on the contrary, how divided we are." Rev. Setri Nyomi, the general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, protested the Vatican statement in a letter to Cardinal Walter Kasper (bio - news), the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity. Rev. Nyomi said that the new Vatican statement, which says that Protestant groups are not "churches"...

WASHINGTON - The war in Iraq has become a “cause célèbre” for Islamic extremists, breeding deep resentment of the U.S. that probably will get worse before it gets better, federal intelligence analysts conclude in a report at odds with President Bush’s contention of a world growing safer. In the bleak report, declassified and released Tuesday on Bush’s orders, the nation’s most veteran analysts conclude that despite serious damage to the leadership of al-Qaida, the threat from Islamic extremists has spread both in numbers and in geographic reach. ----------------------- Virtually all assessments of the current situation were bad news. The report’s...

Former President William Jefferson Clinton formerly opens his Presidential Center, which will hold the papers from his two term presidency.Attending the ceremony will be President George W. Bush, former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, along with First Lady Laura Bush ,Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rosalyn Carter and Barbara Bush.

FRESNO, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger launched his campaign Tuesday to persuade voters to approve his $15 billion bond measure to get the state out of debt, saying a "yes" vote is the only way to avoid enormous public service cuts. Even as recent polls suggest voters are skeptical of Schwarzenegger's plan to sell $15 billion in bonds to pay off California's debt, the governor appeared optimistic voters will eventually understand the alternative would mean definite cuts to services -- and possibly higher taxes. "I call them Armageddon cuts," he told a crowd of about 150 invited guests at Duncan...