Author: Alan Cooperman

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/24/AR2007052402164.html

After complaints by a government watchdog group, the Air Force and the Army partially distanced themselves yesterday from a three-day evangelical Christian event this weekend at a Georgia theme park.

The Memorial Day weekend "Salute to the Troops" celebration at Stone...

Author: Jenny Hurwitz

Source: Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/218/story_21885_1.html

Amite, La. - The Tangipahoa Parish School Board is facing another federal lawsuit, this time from a parent claiming that the district permitted the distribution of Bibles to students on school property during class.

The suit, backed by the American Civil Liberties Union, was filed Thursday (May 17) in U.S. District Court in New Orleans. In...

Author: Dallas Morning News Editorial

Source: The News-Sentinel/McClatchy-Tribune News Service

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/17258324.htm

The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Friday, May 18:

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We live in a time of global change so rapid that it's often difficult to savor the astonishing nature of particular events. Thursday in Moscow, something amazing...

Author: Matt Curry

Source: Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4810551.html

The American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way Foundation sued the Ector County Independent School District, asking the Odessa school system stop teaching the course. The Ector school board approved the course, a high school elective, by a 4-2 vote in 2005.

"Religion is...

Source: The Muslim News

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/news.php?article=12764

VATICAN CITY, (Zenit.org): The collaboration of Christians and Muslims to promote justice and peace is possible and therefore necessary, says Benedict XVI.

The Pope made these remarks today, during the five-yearly visit of the bishops of Mali.

Of Mali's 11.5 million people, some 90% are Muslim and only 2% are Catholic.

The Holy Father expressed his "...

Source: Hindu Press International

Wire Service: AP

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/ex-iranian-leader-still-upset-about-pope-remarks

VATICAN CITY: Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met with...

Source: News...

Author: Matt Sedensky

Source: Jacksonville.com

Wire Service: AP

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/050107/D8ORR2CO2.shtml

MIAMI - A man fighting the opening of a mosque in his suburban neighborhood filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try and halt construction, a move derided by Arab leaders as anti-Muslim.

Rodney Wright claims the relocation of the Islamic Center of South Florida to a new, larger...

Source: Americans United Press Release

Source: International Herald Tribune

Wire Service: AP

https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/90267-turkey_tilmann/

MALATYA, Turkey: The story of a quiet and deeply religious German man ended with the sound of rocky dirt being dumped over his grave in eastern Turkey, in a...

Source: Catholic News

http://www.cathnews.com/news/704/103.php

In a restriction described by a New Zealand party leader as "political correctness gone mad", Kiwi prison authorities have banned the taking of communion wine into prison, saying that they have no legal discretion to grant an exemption.

NZ Catholic reports that United Future New Zealand leader Peter Dunne comments come in response to a story in this week's issue of NZ Catholic, outlining enforcement of a ban on...

Author: Mary Jordan

Source: Chicago Tribune

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-04-18-0704170802-story.html

SHKODER, Albania -- The Catholic cathedral that communists turned into a basketball arena for two decades...

Author: ART GOLAB

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/religion/331378,CST-NWS-cross07.article

A 19-foot-tall cedar cross erected on Daley Plaza on Good Friday by several Christian denominations crosses the line between church and state, according to two Chicago Jewish leaders.

"It's totally inappropriate," said Rabbi Ira Youdovin, executive vice president of the Chicago Board of Rabbis.
...

Author: Matt Curry

Source: Houston Chronicle

Wire Service: AP

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4685221.html

DALLAS--A Texas legislator wants to require the state's nearly 1,700 public school districts to teach the Bible as a textbook, "not a worship document."

The House Public Education Committee was set late today to consider a bill by Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, mandating high schools to offer...

Author: Tom Heneghan

Source: Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2652676520070326

ORSAY, France (Reuters) - With creationism now coming in Christian and Muslim versions, scientists, teachers and theologians in France are debating ways to counteract what they see as growing religious attacks on science.

Bible-based criticism of evolution, once limited to Protestant fundamentalists in the United States, has...