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Associated Press College Station, Texas – Republican Mitt Romney, confronting voters’ skepticism about his Mormon faith, declared Thursday that as president he would “serve no one religion, no one group, no one cause,” and said calls for him to explain and justify his religious beliefs go against the profound wishes of the nation’s founders. At…

Associated Press – December 5, 2007 SPOKANE, Wash. – The city’s Police Department will remove crosses from its chaplain badges to settle a lawsuit filed by a Lutheran pastor-turned-atheist. “It’s a milestone,” said Ray Ideus, 75, who volunteers eight hours a week for the department, and filed the lawsuit in 2006. “It’s very important that…

Associated Press – December 4, 2007 SAN FRANCISCO – An atheist pleaded with a federal appeals court to remove the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance tot he American flag and “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency, saying the references disrespect his religious beliefs. “I want to be treated equally,” said Michael…

Associated Press – December 4, 2007 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – A delegation of the world’s elder statesmen called Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Sudan’s Darfur and for the international community to urgently honor its pledge to send in a U.N.-African peacekeeping force. “The future of Darfur, and indeed the whole of Sudan, sits on…

AFX News Limited – Among the many conservative Christians who feel misunderstood by the general public, the six televangelists under investigation by a Senate committee are an embarrassment. The ministers’ on-air faith healings and fundraising, backed by self-serving misinterpretations of Scripture, reinforce offensive stereotypes of greedy preachers and put their followers at spiritual risk, critics…

Associated Press Des Moines, Iowa – A federal appeals court ruled Monday that the state of Iowa cannot fund an evangelical Christian prison ministry program because doing so advances or endorses religion, violating the Constitutional separation of church and state. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Robert Pratt’s June 2006…

Associated Press Newton, Iowa – Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, a one-time Southern Baptist preacher who’s seen his standing in Iowa surge with Christian evangelicals’ support, wouldn’t say Tuesday whether he thought Mormonism – rival Mitt Romney’s religion – was a cult. “I’m just not going to go off into evaluating other people’s doctrines and…

Associated Press – December 3, 2007 KHARTOUM, Sudan – A British teacher jailed for insulting Islam after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad flew home Monday following a pardon by the president of Sudan, a British Embassy spokesman said. Gillian Gibbons was believed to be on an Emirates flight with a stopover…

Associated Press – December 3, 2007 NORFOLK, Va. – Pat Robertson is turning over his duties as chief executive officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network to his son but will remain chairman, the 77-year-old religious broadcaster announced Monday. Robertson said he told CBN’s board that it was time for him to pass on some of…

Associated Press – December 2, 2007 DES MOINES, Iowa – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, striving to be the country’s first Mormon president, will give a speech this week explaining his relatively unknown faith to voters, his campaign said Sunday. The decision, made after months of debate at his Boston headquarters over whether to make…
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