Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• NY Muslims say bigotry behind cemetery order (AP)
• Obama answers the question: Why are you a Christian? (Reuters)
• Survey: Americans don't know much about religion (AP)
• Efforts Rising to Ordain Women as Roman Catholic Priests (Time.com)
• Atheists and Jews top religious knowledge survey (Reuters)
• Israel stops Jewish activist yacht on way to Gaza (Reuters)
• Bishop Eddie Long: Will case force open talk in black church about sexuality? (The Christian Science Monitor)

NY Muslims say bigotry behind cemetery order (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:24 PM PDT AP - Members of a small Muslim community in rural upstate New York say the uproar over a planned mosque near ground zero is behind attempts by local officials to shut down the community's graveyard and remove the two bodies buried there.

Obama answers the question: Why are you a Christian? (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:54 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama spoke openly about his faith on Tuesday, describing himself as a "Christian by choice" while reiterating his belief in the importance of religious tolerance.

Survey: Americans don't know much about religion (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:42 PM PDT AP - A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.

Efforts Rising to Ordain Women as Roman Catholic Priests (Time.com) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:25 AM PDT Time.com - A priest in Chicago speaks out for the first time about helping a woman into the Roman Catholic priesthood. Observers say there may be more like him than you would think

Atheists and Jews top religious knowledge survey (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:15 AM PDT Reuters - They may not believe in God or gods but they know a thing or two about them.

Israel stops Jewish activist yacht on way to Gaza (Reuters) Posted: 28 Sep 2010 12:20 PM PDT Reuters - The Israeli navy boarded a yacht in the Mediterranean on Tuesday to prevent 10 Jewish activists sailing to Gaza to protest against Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.

Bishop Eddie Long: Will case force open talk in black church about sexuality? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 27 Sep 2010 02:04 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - "I am not a perfect man," Atlanta pastor Bishop Eddie Long told his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church flock Sunday, after saying he would fight like David against Goliath the civil claims that he used his pulpit power to coerce four young male parishioners into having sex.

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