Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• At-risk religious lands being preserved nationwide (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Martin Luther has Wittenberg in a stir 500 years on (Reuters)
• Paul apologizes for disparaging church picnic (AP)
• Rotterdam court rejects Muslim scholar's lawsuit (AP)

At-risk religious lands being preserved nationwide (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 01:09 PM PDT AP - The stretch of shoreline owned by a Massachusetts religious order is a place where even the sounds add to the stillness. Bells jangle on buoys as birds chatter and the tide slides in a soft rush past scattered clammers.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 09:19 AM PDT AP - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America lost almost 91,000 members and 48 congregations last year, but saw a slight increase in per-congregant giving.

Martin Luther has Wittenberg in a stir 500 years on (Reuters) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 09:00 AM PDT Reuters - About 800 colorful statuettes of 16th-century Protestant reformer Martin Luther are popping up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first railed against some practices of the Roman Catholic church almost 500 years ago.

Paul apologizes for disparaging church picnic (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 08:11 AM PDT AP - Republican Rand Paul has apologized for saying he worried beer would be thrown at a church picnic he attended last weekend in western Kentucky.

Rotterdam court rejects Muslim scholar's lawsuit (AP) Posted: 11 Aug 2010 07:19 AM PDT AP - A Dutch court has rejected a wrongful dismissal lawsuit brought by prominent Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan, saying the city of Rotterdam had good reasons for ending his contract.

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