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A selection of religion news items, including opinion articles and links to related research resources.

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A popular yoga guru retreated to his plush ashram Sunday claiming the Indian government was out to kill him after police forcibly removed the televangelist from a "fast-unto-death" hunger strike against corruption and scattered tens of thousands of his followers.

The showdown in New Delhi had been building for days, after the saffron-robed, barefoot guru Ram Krishna Ramdev, known as Baba Ramdev, went ahead with his threat to lead a mass hunger strike in the capital.

 

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Members of Brazil's Universal Church of God's Grace in São Paulo now have a new way to pay their tithe: by automated bank draft.

The church -- founded by the co-founder of the money-loving Universal Church of the Kingdom of God -- also offers the "International Church of God's Grace Credit Card."

 

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