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    American Dreamers

    Fareed Siddiq is a successful businessman and a father of two. He lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio

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    BeliefWatch: Mormons

    As a rule, Mormons tend to be white, conservative and Republican

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    BeliefWatch: How To

    Parenting books are the most useless and irresistible kind of literature. Designed to prey on parents’ insecurities, they draw you in with expert claims and then disappoint with their know-it-all tone and their failure to solve even a single one

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    Shrine

    Carole Pizzolante, from Ontario, Canada, is standing in a historic church in New York City, and she is trying not to cry. Before her is a wall, plastered with the faces of people killed on 9/11. “It’s all so bloody

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    BeliefWatch: Smackdown

    It may not be fair to call what’s happening in the atheist community a backlash, since atheists have always been and continue to be one of the smallest, most derided groups in the country. In a recent NEWSWEEK Poll, only

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    A Family’s Heartbreak

    Mornings were chaos. “Four full-blooded little Grahams,” the young mother wrote in her journal. ” I feel this a.m. it’s gotten quite beyond me. They fight, they yell, they answer back. Breakfast is dreadful … Now they’ve gone off to

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    BeliefWatch: Buddhists

    The Beliefnet.com post is typical teenage angst, but with a twist. Mother is a zealous new convert to Roman Catholicism. Father is along for the ride. “Silentmist” wants an answer to this question: “How should I go about telling [my

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    BeliefWatch: Edutainment

    This summer, tourists who want attractions with a Christian flavor have at least two new options to choose from. The first, opening to the public June 5, is the Billy Graham Library, situated on 63 acres in Charlotte, N. C.

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    BeliefWatch: Witness

    With a presidential candidate, a recent television special and 13 million adherents worldwide, the Mormons have gotten an extra dose of media attention lately. But there’s another indigenous American religion that is now making a bid for the spotlight. Formed

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    BeliefWatch: Entombed

    In interviews with NEWSWEEK in the days before the announcement of the “Jesus family tomb” (the suburban Jerusalem cave said to contain the bones of Jesus and his relatives, a claim that later turned out to be overblown), publishers and

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