Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Muslims upset by NYPD to boycott mayor's breakfast (AP)
• Fearing split, pastors urge GOP candidates to quit (AP)
• Military wives turn to Bible for marriage advice (AP)
• Religion news in brief (AP)
• Russian court rejects proposed ban of Hindu text (AP)
• Clerics clash in Church of the Nativity (Reuters)
• Christmas Church Attacks by Islam's Boko Haram in Nigeria (Time.com)
• After Christmas Violence in Nigeria, Muslims Becomes Targets (The Atlantic Wire)
• A Christian on Hitchens' Atheism and Lowe's Muslim Problem (Time.com)
• A spitting incident sets off Israeli frustration with Jewish zealotry (The Christian Science Monitor)

Muslims upset by NYPD to boycott mayor's breakfast (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:14 PM PST AP - Several Muslim leaders have declined invitations to the mayor's annual year-end interfaith breakfast, saying they're upset at police department efforts to infiltrate mosques and spy on Muslim neighborhoods.

Fearing split, pastors urge GOP candidates to quit (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 04:53 PM PST AP - Two politically active pastors in Iowa's robust evangelical conservative movement said Wednesday that an effort has been under way to persuade either Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann to consider quitting the Republican presidential race and endorsing the other to avoid splintering this influential voting bloc's influence in the state's caucuses.

Military wives turn to Bible for marriage advice (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:59 AM PST AP - With husbands deployed or off preparing for war, some young wives at this sprawling Army installation have spent much of their marriages so far alone.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:56 AM PST AP - Low rates of vaccinations in Ashland prompts study request

Russian court rejects proposed ban of Hindu text (AP) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 07:52 AM PST AP - A Russian court decided Wednesday not to ban a religious text central to the global Hare Krishna movement, rejecting claims that the text is "extremist" and ending a case that has angered Hindus around the world.

Clerics clash in Church of the Nativity (Reuters) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 06:55 AM PST Reuters - A Christmas cleaning of the Church of the Nativity turned into scuffles on Wednesday between rival Christian clerics zealously guarding denominational turf at the holy site.

Christmas Church Attacks by Islam's Boko Haram in Nigeria (Time.com) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 05:00 AM PST Time.com - The country is almost equally divided between Christianity and Islam. The Christmas Day attacks that took three dozen lives are not making coexistence any easier

After Christmas Violence in Nigeria, Muslims Becomes Targets (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 04:25 AM PST The Atlantic Wire - Related: Radical Sect in Nigeria Kills More Than 100

A Christian on Hitchens' Atheism and Lowe's Muslim Problem (Time.com) Posted: 28 Dec 2011 12:00 AM PST Time.com - A believer discusses bigotry among so-called Christians and fundamentalism among the so-called atheists

A spitting incident sets off Israeli frustration with Jewish zealotry (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 27 Dec 2011 12:34 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The harassment of an 8-year-old girl by ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh is shaking Israel’s self image to the core, stirring nationwide outrage about escalating religious zealotry and creeping public segregation of women.

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