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• Correction: Praying Passengers (AP)
• Appeals court reinstates case by Muslim over scarf (AP)
• Pope's Germany trip to focus on faith's future (AP)
• Organizers expect massive turnout at pope's event (AP)
• English Catholics claim 900 Anglican converts (AP)

Correction: Praying Passengers (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 02:32 PM PDT AP - In a story March 13 about a flight crew that became alarmed at the behavior of three men conducting an elaborate orthodox Jewish prayer ritual, The Associated Press incorrectly reported that airline officials learned from law enforcement that the men were performing the ritual known as tefillin. Tefillin is not a ritual. It is the name of the leather boxes and straps used in the ritual. The ritual is commonly called laying the tefillin.

Appeals court reinstates case by Muslim over scarf (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 01:26 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court unanimously reinstated a lawsuit Tuesday filed by a Muslim woman who accused Southern California jailers of violating her religious freedom when they ordered her to take off her head scarf in a courthouse holding cell.

Pope's Germany trip to focus on faith's future (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 08:12 AM PDT AP - Germany's bishops say Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit to his homeland will focus on the future of faith in a country that saw record numbers of Roman Catholics leave the church in 2010.

Organizers expect massive turnout at pope's event (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:13 AM PDT AP - Organizers say they expect as many as 1.5 million people to attend the Catholic church's World Youth Day event to be led by Pope Benedict XVI in Madrid.

English Catholics claim 900 Anglican converts (AP) Posted: 15 Mar 2011 07:07 AM PDT AP - About 900 members of the Church of England have taken the first step toward becoming Catholics, the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales said Tuesday.

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