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Yahoo! News: Religion News

USA (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

The Christian Science Monitor - At the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, President Obama said he is ordering an expansion and refocusing of the office of faith-based initiatives started under former President George W. Bush. Obama said such initiatives will not blur the lines between church and state nor show any favoritism.

Holocaust denial: Vatican shifts into damage control (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 02:00 AM CST

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful as he celebrates his weekly general audience in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, February 4, 2009. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters)The Christian Science Monitor - After unprecedented outcry in Pope Benedict XVI's home country of Germany by Roman Catholic and Jewish leaders worldwide, the Vatican this week clarified efforts to reconcile with an ultra-right-wing set of bishops excommunicated in 1988, one of whom denies that the Holocaust, or the Shoah, took the lives of 6 million Jews during Nazi rule here in World War II.

Atheists welcome in Obama's big church (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2009 12:23 AM CST

President Barack Obama takes part in the National Prayer Service at the Washington National Cathedral with Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill Biden, on January 21, in Washington, DC. Obama has appealed to all worshippers to band together and assist society's most vulnerable at a time of acute economic crisis.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Win Mcnamee)AFP - America's perennial culture wars are being fought on a new front as President Barack Obama reaches out to adherents of all religious faiths -- and to atheists too.

Clinton reaching out to Muslims with Indonesia visit (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 05:09 PM CST

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, seen here in Washington, DC, has chosen to visit Indonesia on her first overseas trip because she wants to AFP - New US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has chosen to visit Indonesia on her first overseas trip because she wants to "reach out" to the Muslim world, a spokesman said Thursday.

Anglicans seek extended moratorium on gay bishops (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 03:30 PM CST

AP - Anglican leaders urged their churches Thursday to maintain a 5-year-old moratorium on consecrating another openly gay bishop and developing prayers for same-sex unions, as they try to restore unity in their fractured fellowship.

British Christians launch pro-God ads after atheist blitz (AFP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 02:09 PM CST

Comedy writer Ariane Sherine posing for pictures beside a London bus displaying an atheist ad campaign in January 2009. A British Christian group is to run a pro-God poster campaign on the side of London buses, to counter the atheist advertising blitz.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - A British Christian group is to run a pro-God poster campaign on the side of London buses, to counter a recent atheist advertising blitz which claimed there was no deity, it said Thursday.

White House: First couple still looking for church (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 02:01 PM CST

President Barack Obama speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, February 5, 2009. Saying the United States faced a potentially irreversible economic crisis, Obama on Thursday urged Congress to quickly pass a huge stimulus package as moderate senators scrambled to come up with a less expensive compromise plan. (Larry Downing/Reuters)AP - The White House says Michelle and Barack Obama have visited several churches and will see a few more, but haven't decided on a place to worship.

Obama says faith shouldn't be used to divide (AP)

Posted: 05 Feb 2009 08:53 AM CST

President Barack Obama pauses during a statement before signing the SCHIP legislation in the East Room of the White House on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)AP - President Barack Obama is telling the National Prayer Breakfast that even though faith too often has been used "as a tool to divide us from one another," there is no religion in the world that is based on hatred.

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