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Oral Roberts University names new president (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2009 06:14 PM CST AP - Oral Roberts University has a new president more than a year after the evangelical school's former leader and son of its namesake founder stepped down amid a spending scandal.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2009 11:09 AM CST AP - The leader of the Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Roman Catholic lay group, plans a national summit to mobilize volunteers in response to the nation's economic crisis.

US Muslims hopeful but wary of status under Obama (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2009 11:09 AM CST AP - Many American Muslim leaders are eager to help President Barack Obama improve the U.S. image in the Islamic world, but they worry that their contribution might not always be welcome. The broad suspicion that has dogged them at home since the Sept. 11 attacks continues to keep many U.S. groups from working with the Muslim community, they say.

Lion cub greets pope with a roar in the Vatican (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2009 09:25 AM CST AP - Pope Benedict XVI has been greeted by an unusual guest during his weekly audience at the Vatican: a feisty lion cub.

Israel's chief rabbinate severs ties with Vatican (AP) Posted: 28 Jan 2009 04:27 PM CST AP - Israel's chief rabbinate severed ties with the Vatican on Wednesday to protest a papal decision to reinstate a bishop who publicly denied 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The Jewish state's highest religious authority sent a letter to the Holy See expressing "sorrow and pain" at the papal decision.

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