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• US Presbyterian church ordains openly gay minister (AP)
• Muslim, Christian graves desecrated in Israeli city (Reuters)
• Romney's Mormonism in focus at political meeting (Reuters)
• Future unknown for SD ghost town bought by church (AP)
• Hertz: Muslim workers failed to follow break rules (Reuters)
• Mass. church shot during Revolution gets overhaul (AP)
• Wheaton's (Unofficial) Homecoming for Gay Evangelicals (Time.com)
• Hertz suspends 34 Muslim drivers in prayer dispute (AP)

US Presbyterian church ordains openly gay minister (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 05:34 PM PDT AP - The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has officially ordained a 56-year-old Wisconsin man as its first openly gay minister.

Muslim, Christian graves desecrated in Israeli city (Reuters) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - Dozens of gravestones were desecrated at adjacent Muslim and Christian cemeteries overlooking the sea at Jaffa and a fire-bomb was thrown at a nearby synagogue, on Saturday, Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.

Romney's Mormonism in focus at political meeting (Reuters) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 02:29 PM PDT Reuters - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wooed evangelical Christian voters on Saturday with promises he would protect families, but found his Mormon religion at center stage at a conference of social conservatives.

Future unknown for SD ghost town bought by church (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 12:50 PM PDT AP - The saloon is long empty. The roadside jail cells, rusted and worn. Even the swing sets peek from behind knee-high brush after decades of neglect.

Hertz: Muslim workers failed to follow break rules (Reuters) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 12:18 PM PDT Reuters - Hertz rental car company, which was met with protests for suspending 34 Muslim shuttle drivers in Seattle in a dispute over prayer breaks, said it would reinstate the workers if they agreed to clock in and out.

Mass. church shot during Revolution gets overhaul (AP) Posted: 08 Oct 2011 10:06 AM PDT AP - Since the 18th century, Christ Church Cambridge has survived more than just the rattling, pounding and drenching of New England weather.

Wheaton's (Unofficial) Homecoming for Gay Evangelicals (Time.com) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 10:40 PM PDT Time.com - They're loud, they're proud and they'll be wearing rainbows at Wheaton College's big football game. How the OneWheaton alumni group is helping LGBT students at the Harvard of Evangelical schools, where being gay can get you kicked out

Hertz suspends 34 Muslim drivers in prayer dispute (AP) Posted: 07 Oct 2011 06:11 PM PDT AP - Thirty-four Muslim drivers for Hertz claimed they were suspended for praying during work hours, but the company contended they were reprimanded for abusing break times.

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