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 An Occupy Wall Street protest in Los Angeles on Thursday.
November 17th, 2011
03:47 PM ET
Survey: 3 in 10 Americans identify with Occupy, Tea Party movementsBy Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) - Both the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements identify with the values of just under a third of the country, according to a survey released Thursday. Twenty-nine percent of Americans say the Occupy Wall Street movement shares their values, the same proportion who say Tea Party shares their values, the survey found. The poll was conducted by Public Religion Research Institute in partnership with the Religion News Service.  Benetton’s pope-imam ‘kiss” ad in Rome on Thursday.
November 17th, 2011
03:05 PM ET
Vatican pledges legal action against Benetton over doctored pope-kissing-imam adBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - The Vatican will attempt legal action against the United Colors of Benetton over an ad featuring a doctored picture of the pope kissing a male Muslim cleric, the Holy See announced Thursday, one day after the ad was unveiled and then pulled. The Vatican said it had directed its lawyers to initiate action to prevent the circulation of the ad, even though Benetton announced Wednesday that it is pulling the ad in the face of criticism. The ad featured a fake picture of Pope Benedict XVI kissing Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, imam of Al-Azhar mosque, a prominent Muslim house of worship in Cairo, Egypt.
November 17th, 2011
05:26 AM ET
Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Thursday, November 17
Here's the Belief Blog’s morning rundown of the top faith-angle stories from around the United States and around the world. Click the headlines for the full stories. CNN: Catholic Church smooths way for disaffected Episcopalians The Roman Catholic Church is establishing a program to help disaffected American Episcopalians to join the Catholic fold – including married Episcopal priests who want to become Catholic priests – it announced Tuesday. |
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