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September 10th, 2012
06:15 PM ET
Atheists continue battle against World Trade Center cross at memorialBy Dan Merica, CNN Washington (CNN) – Eleven years after the World Trade Center attack, the billion dollar memorial and museum dedicated to the victims of 9/11 is just half that - a memorial without an operating museum. And though a dispute between New York City’s mayor and New York’s governor is responsible for delaying the opening, a separate legal battle is aimed at blocking one museum exhibit in particular: a large cross made of one of the twin tower’s T-beams that became a national symbol in the days after the 2001 attacks. A national group called American Atheists is suing the museum to stop the display of the cross, arguing that a religious symbol has no place in a memorial that’s backed by public funds and that is supposed to serve as a monument to victims of many different religions - and to those who had no religion at all. “It is important that it not be displayed to the exclusion of everyone else,” said David Silverman, president of the American Atheists, which first filed suit in July 2011. “This case is about inclusion, it is not about the elimination of religion, it is about the inclusion of everyone.”
September 10th, 2012
10:16 AM ET
My Take: The Mother Teresa you don’t know
By David Van Biema, Special to CNN Fifteen years may be less than an instant in celestial time, but here on earth it's a lot of news cycles. Mother Teresa departed this Earth on September 5, 1997. What more can we say about the woman who became synonymous with love for the "poorest of the poor," picking up a Nobel and tweaking the conscience of millions? What do we know about her now that we didn't know then? A lot, it turns out. Here's a quick Blessed Mother Teresa primer, emphasizing the stuff that you probably don’t know, some of which we only learned recently. 1. She was born a rich girl.
September 10th, 2012
05:28 AM ET
Belief Blog's Morning Speed Read for Monday, September 10
By Arielle Hawkins, CNN 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. From the Blog: CNN: From Kurt Warner’s wife to ‘Christian famous’
CNN: Christian pastor – once sentenced to death in Iran – is released, group says |
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Editor's note: David Van Biema, the chief religion writer at Time Magazine for ten years, is author of the illustrated biography "
