Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Attorney General warns against alienating Muslims (Reuters)
• Boston church aims to bring back lapsed Catholics (AP)
• Exhibit introduces Hindu holy art to US audiences (AP)
• Pope receives ashes atop head in penitence rite (AP)
• Hundreds of Anglicans moving to Catholic church (AP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Study debunks stereotypes of US Muslim radicals (AFP/Getty Images/File)

Attorney General warns against alienating Muslims (Reuters) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:44 PM PST Reuters - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday warned against alienating the U.S. Muslim community, in a veiled criticism of a congressional probe into the radicalization of Muslims at home.

Boston church aims to bring back lapsed Catholics (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 04:42 PM PST AP - Cardinal Sean O'Malley kicked off a massive ad campaign Wednesday to draw Boston's vast population of lapsed Catholics back to the church by inviting them to "come home."

Exhibit introduces Hindu holy art to US audiences (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:00 PM PST AP - Hinduism is the world's third largest religion and its oldest continuously practiced one, so it's somewhat surprising there has never been a major museum exhibition on Vishnu, one of its most important deities.

Pope receives ashes atop head in penitence rite (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 09:41 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI is marking the solemn opening of the Catholic church's Lenten period with an Ash Wednesday service in an ancient Roman basilica.

Hundreds of Anglicans moving to Catholic church (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:51 AM PST AP - Hundreds of disaffected Anglicans left the Church of England to become Roman Catholics on Ash Wednesday, the Christian day of penance.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 08:00 AM PST AP - Major work has been completed on a Vatican-ordered investigation of Roman Catholic sisters in the United States.

Study debunks stereotypes of US Muslim radicals (AFP/Getty Images/File) Posted: 09 Mar 2011 01:48 AM PST AFP/Getty Images/File - Whether an ordinary US Muslim becomes a violent extremist cannot be determined by the length of his beard or how often he goes to the mosque, experts say, urging Americans to avoid stereotypes.

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