Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Congregations struggle in aging, decaying churches (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Opponents pack hearing on mosque near ground zero (AP)
• Clinton asks Jewish support to free worker in Cuba (AP)

Congregations struggle in aging, decaying churches (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 11:39 AM PDT AP - About halfway through Sunday service at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, as worshipers passed around the collection plate, a chorus of screams pierced the air.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 14 Jul 2010 10:06 AM PDT AP - A Muslim group whose teachings are considered dangerous by some scholars canceled its annual U.S. meeting after a suburban Chicago hotel backed out of hosting the event.

Opponents pack hearing on mosque near ground zero (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2010 08:56 PM PDT AP - Dozens of opponents and some supporters of a mosque planned near ground zero attended a raucous hearing Tuesday about whether the building where the Muslim place of worship would be created warrants designation as a city landmark and should be protected from development.

Clinton asks Jewish support to free worker in Cuba (AP) Posted: 13 Jul 2010 06:56 PM PDT AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Jewish groups to join the campaign to persuade Cuba to release a U.S. government contractor detained on the communist island for seven months without charge.

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