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• Religion news in brief (AP)
• 5 years after headlines, SC monks grow mushrooms (AP)
• Church leaders mourn death of Cardinal Bevilacqua (AP)
• Ga. church members plead for help after Fla. crash (AP)
• US Muslims seek clemency for condemned US-Iranian (AP)

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 11:41 AM PST AP - Jesus at mountaintop ski resort in US allowed to stay after feds reverse statue's eviction

5 years after headlines, SC monks grow mushrooms (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 11:25 AM PST AP - Five years after an animal rights group complained about the treatment of chickens at an egg farm run by a Roman Catholic abbey in South Carolina, the monks are now earning their daily bread by growing mushrooms. It hasn't been easy or without frustration.

Church leaders mourn death of Cardinal Bevilacqua (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 03:34 PM PST AP - Church leaders called on parishioners Wednesday to pray for the soul of retired Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua, who led them for more than 15 years but was also an uncharged central figure in a child sex-abuse case that involves the alleged shuffling of predator priests.

Ga. church members plead for help after Fla. crash (AP) Posted: 01 Feb 2012 04:16 AM PST AP - Members of a small Brazilian church outside Atlanta are trying to find ways to pay for bringing the bodies of members killed in a deadly Florida interstate pileup back to Georgia and then, hopefully, on to their native country to bury them.

US Muslims seek clemency for condemned US-Iranian (AP) Posted: 31 Jan 2012 06:57 PM PST AP - An American Muslim group appealed Tuesday to Iran's supreme leader to show clemency for an ex-U.S. military translator with dual citizenship condemned to death on accusations of being a CIA spy.

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