Yahoo! News: Religion News

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• Claim surfaces of Anne Frank baptism by Mormons (AP)
• States, Catholics sue over contraceptives rule (Reuters)
• Chicago mayor: City police wouldn't spy on Muslims (AP)
• High noon in Oxford: Dawkins vs the archbishop (Reuters)
• Singer Charlotte Church settles phone hack claim (AP)
• One-year-old boy may have drowned at Indianapolis church (Reuters)
• Politics of Rick Santorum's theology: Is faith a kingmaker or deal-breaker? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Claim surfaces of Anne Frank baptism by Mormons (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:21 PM PST AP - A new claim has surfaced that the Mormon church has posthumously baptized a Holocaust victim, this time Anne Frank.

States, Catholics sue over contraceptives rule (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:56 PM PST Reuters - Seven states, Catholic groups and individuals on Thursday filed the first major lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new contraceptive regulations, arguing that the policy violated the constitutional rights to religious freedom.

Chicago mayor: City police wouldn't spy on Muslims (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 02:21 PM PST AP - Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday there's no way Chicago police officers would spy on Muslims or conduct surveillance operations in their communities like those carried out by New York officers in that city and neighboring New Jersey.

High noon in Oxford: Dawkins vs the archbishop (Reuters) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 12:55 PM PST Reuters - In the blue corner, the leader of the Church of England. In the red corner, the world's most prominent critic of religion.

Singer Charlotte Church settles phone hack claim (AP) Posted: 23 Feb 2012 04:59 AM PST AP - Lawyers have told Britain's High Court that singer Charlotte Church has settled her claims against the publisher of the News of the World over alleged phone hacking.

One-year-old boy may have drowned at Indianapolis church (Reuters) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 08:02 PM PST Reuters - Police were investigating on Wednesday the possible drowning of a 1-year-old boy in a baptismal pool at a church in Indianapolis where he attended a day care center.

Politics of Rick Santorum's theology: Is faith a kingmaker or deal-breaker? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 02:05 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - The language of personal faith appears to be helping GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum turn lingering doubts among Protestant evangelicals about Mitt Romney's Mormonism (and even President Obama's Christianity) into a poll surge.

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