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July 31st, 2010
10:54 PM ET
Church plans Quran-burning eventIn protest of what it calls a religion "of the devil," a nondenominational church in Gainesville, Florida, plans to host an "International Burn a Quran Day" on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The Dove World Outreach Center says it is hosting the event to remember 9/11 victims and take a stand against Islam. With promotions on its website and Facebook page, it invites Christians to burn the Muslim holy book at the church from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. "We believe that Islam is of the devil, that it's causing billions of people to go to hell, it is a deceptive religion, it is a violent religion and that is proven many, many times," Pastor Terry Jones told CNN's Rick Sanchez earlier this week.
July 30th, 2010
05:25 PM ET
Anti-Defamation League's opposition to ground zero mosque sparks debate
The Anti-Defamation League this week announced its opposition to a proposed mosque and community center at Ground Zero - a decision that is already provoking anger. On Friday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked the ADL to retract its Wednesday statement:
July 30th, 2010
05:15 PM ET
How faithy will Sarah Palin's next book be?
1. The title: "America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag." (OK, we knew that already.)
July 30th, 2010
04:14 PM ET
National Association of Evangelicals denounces church's Quran burning eventThe National Association of Evangelicals, the nation's largest evangelical umbrella group, is urging a Florida church to call off a planned Quran burning scheduled for September 11. Here's the NAE's statement:
July 30th, 2010
03:30 PM ET
Anne Rice leaves ChristianityLegendary author Anne Rice has announced that she’s quitting Christianity. The “Interview with a Vampire” author, who wrote a book about her spirituality titled "Called Out of Darkness: A Spiritual Confession" in 2008, said Wednesday that she refuses to be “anti-gay,” “anti-feminist," “anti-science” and “anti-Democrat.” Rice wrote, “For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian ... It's simply impossible for me to ‘belong’ to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. For ten years, I've tried. I've failed. I'm an outsider. My conscience will allow nothing else.”
July 30th, 2010
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Painting stolen by Nazi on display in New YorkA demur redhead in a modest black dress is making a brief appearance in New York, before finally returning home to Austria. "Portrait of Wally," painted by Austrian Egon Schiele in 1912, was put on display Thursday at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. On August 18, it will go back to the Leopold Museum in Vienna, after a settlement last week ended the painting's legal upheaval. It's a story 70 years old, reaching across the Atlantic and involving Nazi theft, art-world deceit and a Jewish woman's deep affection for a favorite portrait.
July 29th, 2010
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Addressing treatment of workers, group readies new kosher sealCNN's Talya Minsberg filed this report: Most religious dietary guidelines allow individuals to maintain a sense of holiness in their daily lives. For many Jews, that sense was shattered in spring of 2008, when an Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa was raided and found to have hundreds of illegal immigrants and dozens of violations, from unsafe conditions to unethical treatment of workers. It was the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant. In June, Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin was sentenced to 27 years of imprisonment on fraud charges, though he appealed his conviction earlier this month.
July 28th, 2010
01:47 PM ET
New book explains Barack Obama's favorite theologian
When I first started reading about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., I kept coming across one name: Reinhold Niebuhr. Niebuhr was a Protestant pastor and theologian who lived during the mid-20th century. He’s best known for writing the Serenity Prayer ("God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can..."). But he also exerted a profound influence on King. It turns out that Niebuhr is also one of President Obama’s favorite theologians, as I detailed in an article earlier this year. |
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