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3 states still ban religious clothing for teachers (AP)
Religion News in Brief (AP)
Polish Catholic group wants IVF outlawed (AFP)
Hindu and Jew urge Madonna to take up Gypsy cause (AP)

3 states still ban religious clothing for teachers (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 12:38 PM PDT

AP - A law backed by the Ku Klux Klan nearly a century ago to keep Catholics out of public schools is still on the books in Oregon, one of the last states in the nation to prohibit teachers from wearing religious clothing in classrooms.

Religion News in Brief (AP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 11:16 AM PDT

AP - Federal officials says the JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in the northern Colorado city of Greeley was wrong to fire more than 100 Muslim workers who walked out during Ramadan last year in a dispute over prayer breaks.

Polish Catholic group wants IVF outlawed (AFP)

Posted: 02 Sep 2009 09:01 AM PDT

AFP - A draft law proposed by a group of Polish Roman Catholics aiming to criminalise in vitro fertilisation (IVF) will be tabled in parliament next week, a senior parliamentarian said Wednesday.