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• Ariz. school lands free Mass. Christian campus
• Texas cheerleaders win court battle over high school 'Bible banners'
• Pakistani leaders play religious card as protests boil
• Can religion save Africa's elephants and rhinos?
• German bishops get tough on Catholics who opt out of church tax
• Catholic official worried about Israel attacks

Ariz. school lands free Mass. Christian campus Posted: 21 Sep 2012 04:56 PM PDT The owners of an historic campus in the hills of western Massachusetts announced Friday that they'll give it away to a Christian college from Arizona that plans to eventually host 5,000 students there.

Texas cheerleaders win court battle over high school 'Bible banners' Posted: 21 Sep 2012 01:44 PM PDT SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Cheerleaders at a Texas high school have won a court order allowing them to continue featuring Biblical quotes on the large paper banners that they hold up for football players to tear through when they take the field at the game opening. The ruling by a Hardin County judge late Thursday over the so-called "Bible Banners" at the school in the east Texas town of Kountze marked the latest twist in a broader national clash over the separation of religion from public schools. ...

Pakistani leaders play religious card as protests boil Posted: 21 Sep 2012 12:11 PM PDT ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan shut down Friday in a government-sanctioned protest over a film made in the United States that mocks the Prophet Mohammad, highlighting the power of religious parties to shape the political agenda. Protesters incensed by the film and inspired by influential Pakistani religious parties set fire to a motorway toll booth just outside the capital and a cinema in the northwestern city of Peshawar in images broadcast live on television. ...

Can religion save Africa's elephants and rhinos? Posted: 21 Sep 2012 09:12 AM PDT Standing before a pile of charred elephant ivory as dusk covered the surrounding savannah, Christian, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders grasped hands and prayed. Let religion, they asked, help "God's ...

German bishops get tough on Catholics who opt out of church tax Posted: 21 Sep 2012 05:30 AM PDT PARIS (Reuters)- Germany's Roman Catholic bishops have decreed that people who opt out of a "church tax" should not be given sacraments and religious burials, getting tougher on worshippers who choose not to pay. Alarmed by a wave of dissenting Catholics quitting the faith, the bishops issued a decree on Thursday declaring such defection "a serious lapse" and listed a wide range of church activities from which they must be excluded. Germans officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a religious tax of 8 or 9 percent of their annual tax bill. ...

Catholic official worried about Israel attacks Posted: 20 Sep 2012 01:35 AM PDT After a series of attacks by vandals on Christian holy sites in Israel, normally tight-lipped Roman Catholic officials are beginning to speak out, publicly appealing to authorities to take a stronger stand against the violence.

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