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Court rules for Utah city in religious marker case (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 02:33 PM PST AP - Governments that receive donations of Ten Commandments displays and other monuments for public parks are not compelled to take everything they are offered, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

US Supreme Court rules against Utah sect (AFP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 02:16 PM PST AFP - The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled Wednesday that a public park in Utah does not have to place a monument by a small sect alongside one of the Ten Commandments.

Supreme Court lets city refuse religious monument (Reuters) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 10:00 AM PST Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a Utah city can refuse to put a religious group's monument in a public park near a similar Ten Commandments display.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 08:06 AM PST AP - Membership in the nation's two largest Christian church bodies, the Roman Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention, declined slightly in 2007, according to the latest edition of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches.

Catholic parish starts religious ed for autistic (AP) Posted: 25 Feb 2009 08:05 AM PST AP - Two autistic boys sat inside a parochial school classroom this month. In a setting stripped of unnecessary furniture and toys to avoid distraction, they studied pictograms of a bearded Jesus in a red sash and images of their family members and people helping each other.

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