Sebastian Errazuriz has used art to take on an array of issues: New York's death rate, the Occupy movement, military suicide, children with disabilities, the brutal reign of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Now, the Brooklyn-based artist is taking aim at what he sees as religious extremism. At a party this weekend celebrating New York Design Week, which begins today, the Chilean-born artist plans to hand out 100 “Christian Popsicles” made of “frozen holy wine transformed into the blood of Christ” and featuring a crucifix instead the tongue depressor that typically hosts the frozen treats, he said. An image of Jesus Christ positioned traditionally on the cross is visible once the ice pop is consumed. As for the frozen wine, Errazuriz said, he concealed it in a cooler and took it into a church, where it was “inadvertently blessed by the priest while turning wine into the blood of Christ during the Eucharist.” Read – Artist wants Jesus Popsicles to stand as statement on fanaticism, violence

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Jesus Christ ice pops made from frozen, inadvertently blessed wine. No, we can’t believe we typed that, either.

A recent Oral Roberts University graduate was the only one of five people en route to a Christian youth conference to survive a plane crash in southeastern Kansas, officials said Saturday.

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Youth conference bound plane crashes

CAIRO — A year after an attack by ultraconservative Muslims raised the spectre of a wave of religious strife in Egypt, the Christian churches in Cairo’s Imbaba district have been repaired, with sturdy wooden rafters, fresh paint and portraits of the Virgin Mary and Jesus ready to be hung anew. But the deep wounds from those attacks and ensuing clashes, which left 12 dead, cannot be painted over. Read full article > >

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Coptic Christians fear rise of Islamists on eve of presidential elections

Mitt Romney spoke of family and faith in a commencement address at Liberty University, a Christian institution where some students expressed distrust of the Mormon religion.

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Romney Woos Evangelicals at Liberty University

Gunmen killed at least 15 people and wounded many more on Sunday in an attack on a university theatre being used by Christian worshippers in Kano, a northern Nigerian city where hundreds have died in Islamist attacks this year.

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Attack on Christians in Nigeria Kills at Least 15: Witness

Christians are being “vilified” by British courts and “driven underground”, a former archbishop of Canterbury has said.

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Christians ‘vilified’ by courts

Pope Benedict XVI will deliver his annual Easter Mass message from the Vatican on Sunday as Christians around the world mark the holiday with a variety of celebrations.

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Pope to deliver Easter message

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has helped to baptise 13 people from different Christian denominations.

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VIDEO: Archbishop’s open air baptisms

In Indianapolis, black Christians and Sephardic Jews who once shared a neighborhood are brought together in the spirit of harmony they once shared.

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On Religion: In Indianapolis’s Southside Neighborhood, a Reunion of Traditions – On Religion

Christians around the world mark Good Friday

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In pictures: Good Friday around the world

Christian Malcolm hopes Dwain Chambers’ lifetime Olympic ban is lifted so they can line up together at the 2012 London Games.

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Malcolm wants Chambers at London

In January 2002, prominent Catholics from around the world gathered in Rome to celebrate the Spanish priest who founded one of the church’s most conservative and devout groups, Opus Dei. The event drew cardinals, bishops and other powerful Vatican officials. Among those invited to speak was a future presidential candidate: Rick Santorum, whose faith had become so essential to his politics that on federal documents he listed the trip, paid for by an Opus Dei foundation, as part of his official duties as a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. Read full article > >

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Rick Santorum’s journey to devout Catholicism, view of religion in governance

Early exit poll results show that 8 in every 10 voters in Alabama and Mississippi call themselves white, evangelical Christians, and more than 4 of whom say they'll back candidates who share their religious beliefs. While this is of course good news for Santorum, the numbers don't bode as well for Romney, who lost primaries this year in five states where evangelicals accounted for more than 50 percent of the voters. The demographics of Mississippi and Alabama resemble those in other Southern states where both Santorum and Gingrich have done better than Romney.

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Evangelicals Dominate Mississippi, Alabama Exit Polls

PARIS — In a bitterly divisive presidential election campaign, France is once again torn by an uncomfortable struggle over the place of Muslims in a society pledged to secularism but deeply rooted in Christianity. Read full article > >

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In France, halal meat drama enters election campaign

POWELL, Tenn. — Rick Santorum does not plan to abandon the fiery Christian rhetoric or the shoestring campaign that got him to where he is today. But as a slate of high-stakes Republican presidential primaries approaches, he is being forced to shift his strategy to beat back perceptions that he is obsessed with controversial social issues and harbors outdated ideas about women. Read full article > >

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Rick Santorum faced with strategy shift that will test his shoestring campaign