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September 1st, 2010
11:04 PM ET
At Arab/Israeli dinner, Obama invokes Islam and Judaism
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Before his working dinner with Israeli and Arab leaders Wednesday night, President Obama invoked his guests' respective religions:
September 1st, 2010
04:19 PM ET
Tennesee mosque rep says project’s opponent is 'extremist'Just days after the FBI suggested a suspicious fire at the future site of a Tennessee Islamic center had been set deliberately, a spokeswoman for the center used the religiously charged term “extremist” to hit back at an opponent of the project. In a taped interview that aired Tuesday on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°, Laurie Cardoza-Moore said she opposes the construction of an Islamic center in Murfreesboro, because an online posting by one of the center’s board members suggested a radical agenda and raised broader questions about the judgment and the ties of the center’s leadership.
September 1st, 2010
04:04 PM ET
Irish cardinal: I will not resign after scandals
Months after the revelation that he helped cover up for one of Ireland's most notoriously abusive priests, the country's top Catholic churchman, Cardinal Sean Brady, says he has "moved on" and will not resign. "I've moved on there, I think, and I got a lot of support in my decision," he told CNN in a rare interview.
September 1st, 2010
12:44 PM ET
Imam behind Islamic center project returning to New YorkThe imam behind the controversial Park51 Islamic community center project is returning home after a State Department-sponsored tour in the Middle East, department spokesman Mark Toner said Wednesday. Toner said Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will leave the region on Thursday and be back in New York the same day.
September 1st, 2010
12:33 PM ET
'Screwtape Letters' takes stage in New York: review and interviewEditor's note: CNN's Kristen Hamill filed this report about a new off-Broadway production of "The Screwtape Letters," the C.S. Lewis novel about a two devils who pen letters back and forth about tormenting and tempting Christians. I spoke recently with actor Max McLean after taking in a performance of "The Screwtape Letters," an off-Broadway production staged by his Fellowship for the Performing Arts. Sporting his character’s slicked-back salt and pepper hair, now matted with perspiration, McLean tells me that adapting an iconic piece of work from one of literature's most famous Christian writers, C.S. Lewis, was a “long process.” “Lewis never intended it to be a theatrical adaptation,” says McLean, who wrote and directed the play with the Fellowship for the Performing Arts’ artistic director, Jeffrey Fiske. “He wrote it as a meditation on the banality of evil and how seductive it is and how corrupting it is.”
September 1st, 2010
11:38 AM ET
Former military interrogator: Building NYC Islamic center would help fight al QaedaBuilding an Islamic community center near the site of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York will "deprive al Qaeda of its No. 1 recruiting tool," a former United States military interrogator in Iraq said Wednesday. "The No. 1 reason foreign fighters came to Iraq was Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo," said Matthew Alexander, the author of "How to Break a Terrorist," referring to the notorious U.S.-run prison in Iraq and the detention center for foreign fighters at the U.S. military base in Cuba.
September 1st, 2010
07:00 AM ET
Our Take: For faithful, immigration reform is today's civil rights movement
By the Rev. Luis Cortés and the Rev. Derrick Harkins, Special to CNN During the civil rights movement, religious leaders locked arms in solidarity and marched against the systemic sins of racism and oppression. In the face of Bull Connor’s fire-hoses, diverse people of faith met the despair of segregation with hope for an America that lived up to its noblest creeds. A new struggle for justice now unites African American and Hispanic clergy, who refuse to remain silent as a broken immigration system divides our communities and undermines our nation’s values. As pastors who minister in urban communities where African Americans and Hispanics share both common aspirations and challenges, we reject any claims of a “black-brown” divide over this contentious issue. |
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Editor's note: Watch CNN's interview with Cardinal Brady in a special report by Nic Robertson on "Connect the World" on CNN International at 9 p.m. London time/4 p.m. ET. 
Editor's Note: The Rev. Luis Cortés is president of 