Dan Harris investigates as President Obama’s religion is debated in election.
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Christian by Choice: How Do We Choose Religion?
The faithful were not as knowledgeable about different religions in survey.
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Atheists and Agnostics Score Best in Religion Poll
The Vatican says it is ‘perplexed and surprised’ by a money laundering probe that resulted in the seizure of $30 million from the Vatican bank and an investigation of the company’s chairman.
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Vatican claims transparency amid laundering probe
A handful of Roman Catholic convents are contradicting the decades-long slide in the number of women choosing to devote their lives to the sisterhood. And at least two of them are doing it by sticking to tradition, including the wearing of habits.
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Nashville nuns break lead the nation in newcomers
Mideast peace talks resume this week, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveling to Egypt and Israel for negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Is religion helping or hurting the attempt to forge peace between the Jewish state and the Palestinians?…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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Peace talks: Does religion help or hurt?
The hosting company found itself sucked into the controversy over a Florida church’s planned burning of Qurans. Afghans protest, Fla. pastor plans to meet NY imam
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S.A.’s Rackspace pulls church’s website
Citing the contentious debate about the proposed Islamic center near Manhattan’s ground zero, a Muslim civil rights group launched a national campaign Thursday aimed at countering hostilities and misperceptions about Muslims.
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Muslim first-responders were also 9-11 victims
In the wake of his weekend rally, Glenn Beck kept up the drumbeat of criticism about President Obama’s religion, calling it a “perversion” and saying that America “isn’t recognizing his version of Christianity,” which Beck characterized as “liberation theology.” Despite critique of Obama’s Christianity, a recent poll showed that nearly 20% of Americans believe falsely that the president is Muslim. Why is there so much attention on Obama’s religion? Does it matter what religion the…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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Presidential faith
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann said that anti-Muslim rhetoric in America is bad news for anti-terrorism efforts: “We are handing al Qaeda a propaganda coup, an absolute propaganda coup.” By many accounts, the man who could blunt the power of that coup is Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the religious leader behind the planned Islamic Center near Ground Zero. The imam has been surprisingly mum on the issue while he…Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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What should Imam Rauf say?
A victims-rights group took the Archdiocese of San Antonio to task Thursday, claiming it has not made known that a priest who served stints in the Alamo City area was the subject of a sex-abuse lawsuit settled last year in Dallas for $4.6 million.
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Dallas sex case fuels S.A. outcry