Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• 'Amazing Grace' is a global music sensation (AP)
• Correction: Muslims-Passports Seized story (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Clarification: Pope story (AP)
• Analysis: Islam no bloc in Obama speeches to Muslims (Reuters)
• Obama seeks better ties with skeptical Muslim world (Reuters)
• Muslims say Obama failing to keep Cairo promises (Reuters)
• Muslim group: More pilgrims' passports delayed (AP)
• Obama sees progress in US relations with Muslims (AP)
• Obama says Indonesia's unity is inspiration to world (AFP)

'Amazing Grace' is a global music sensation (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:08 PM PST AP - It has endured for more than two centuries, offering hope to those grieving or searching for meaning to life. With its simple melody and message of salvation, "Amazing Grace" is a global music sensation.

Correction: Muslims-Passports Seized story (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 11:42 AM PST AP - In a story Nov. 9 about delays for shipments containing passports of people planning religious pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia, The Associated Press misidentified an agency mentioned in the story. The correct name is U.S. Customs and Border Protection, not U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 10:34 AM PST AP - Gay rights activists in Minnesota thought 2012 would be the year they could finally make a serious push for gay marriage in the state, but a surprise Republican takeover of the Legislature has them back on the defensive instead.

Clarification: Pope story (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:25 AM PST AP - In a story Nov. 7, The Associated Press reported that Barcelona architect Antoni Gaudi died a few years after the Sagrada Familia basilica was begun. Gaudi died in 1926; construction on the still-unfinished basilica began in 1882.

Analysis: Islam no bloc in Obama speeches to Muslims (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 09:02 AM PST Reuters - When President Barack Obama first addressed the Muslim world in its traditional heartland last year, his speech was laden with references to the past, to Islam and to the tensions plaguing the Middle East.

Obama seeks better ties with skeptical Muslim world (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 06:39 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama held up his boyhood home of Indonesia as an example to the Muslim world in a speech on Wednesday in which he said America was not at war with Islam but acknowledged it was hard to eradicate "years of mistrust."

Muslims say Obama failing to keep Cairo promises (Reuters) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 04:55 AM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama's pledge on Wednesday to strive for better relations with the Muslim world drew skepticism in Cairo, where last year he called for a new beginning in the Middle East after years of mistrust.

Muslim group: More pilgrims' passports delayed (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2010 06:39 PM PST AP - A Muslim civil rights group said Tuesday it's concerned that the U.S. government is delaying the shipment of passports to those who are trying to make religious pilgrimages to Saudi Arabia.

Obama sees progress in US relations with Muslims (AP) Posted: 09 Nov 2010 06:34 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is using his visit to Indonesia to deliver a progress report on how the United States is doing at repairing frayed relations with Muslims around the world.

Obama says Indonesia's unity is inspiration to world (AFP) Posted: 10 Nov 2010 12:26 AM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama Wednesday celebrated Indonesia's evolution from the rule of the "iron fist" to democracy and lauded his boyhood home's spirit of tolerance as a model for Islam and the West.

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