Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• French culture minister under fire over book (AP)
• Banned from churches, sex offenders go to court (AP)
• 'American Qur'an' blends US life, Quranic verses (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Parents in prayer death get 6 months in jail (AP)

French culture minister under fire over book (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 02:32 PM PDT AP - Criticism is mounting against French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand over an autobiographical book in which he describes paying boys for sex in Thailand.

Banned from churches, sex offenders go to court (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 12:08 PM PDT AP - Convicted sex offender James Nichols said he was trying to better himself by going to church. But the police who arrested him explained: The church is off-limits because it has a daycare center.

'American Qur'an' blends US life, Quranic verses (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 09:29 AM PDT AP - The scene is seared into the American psyche: the residents of New Orleans engulfed by flood waters, perched on rooftops and desperate for help as corpses float past and helicopters whirl overhead.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 08:05 AM PDT AP - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have revised a recent statement on salvation, Jews and evangelizing in response to Jewish concerns over the document.

Parents in prayer death get 6 months in jail (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2009 05:04 AM PDT AP - A central Wisconsin couple who prayed rather than seek medical care for their 11-year-old dying daughter were sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail and 10 years probation in the girl's death.

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