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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
03:02 PM ET
July 30th, 2010
05:05 AM ET
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. |
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Pretty faithy, according to three details in today's 