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Tuesday March 6, 2007

AIDS • U2charist:

U2’s Bono speaks out on AIDS

Bono said that although he’s “just at the beginning of a conversation” on HIV/AIDS in the African-American community, he believes that poverty and the “emasculation” it causes — men engaging in reckless sex and drug abuse to counter their feelings of socioeconomic helplessness — are a root cause of the disease’s spread.
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Wednesday February 28, 2007

U2charist:

Eucharist meets rock in Episcopal U2charist

Church leaders hope U2’s music resonates with congregants. U2charists are being held across the country to highlight the Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2000, when it pledged to eradicate extreme poverty and disease by the year 2015.
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Tuesday January 30, 2007

Christianity • Religion Trends • U2charist:

Hymns replaced by U2 lyrics at church

John Lennon once enraged Christians by claiming that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. The Church of England is now recognising the pulling power of rock stars by recruiting Bono, the singer and lyricist of U2, in its bid to boost congregations.
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Wednesday October 25, 2006

Religion Trends • U2charist:

Episcopal ‘U2-charist’ uses songs in service

It may not qualify as a mini-Reformation, but a Communion service driven by the music of singer Bono and his U2 bandmates is catching on at Episcopal churches across the country.
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Sunday June 18, 2006

Religion Trends • U2charist:

Tucson church rises on the rock of U2

Band's lyrics used as basis for service; Bono not included
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Monday April 3, 2006

Christianity • U2charist:

Lure of U2 draws churchgoers to special services

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --As the electric guitar in a U2 anthem faded from four speakers, the Rev. Robert Brooks welcomed worshippers to Grace Episcopal Church with an unusual suggestion: He warned them to protect their hearing.
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