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Chicago Tribune: Naperville not putting out welcome mat for Islamic religious center
For years, HOPE United Church of Christ advertised on its front lawn plans to build a church on 14 acres it owned just southwest of Naperville, and the minister there says he never heard so much as a peep of displeasure.
Columbus Dispatch: Top court may alter religious-employment law
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that could change how religious institutions hire and fire people.
AP: An Interview with David Masci About the Ministerial Exception
AP Radio Religion Editor Steve Coleman talks to Senior Researcher David Masci about a Supreme Court case involving a legal doctrine known as the "ministerial exception."
Christian Post: Joel Osteen on CNN: I Could Vote for a Muslim or Jewish President
Joel Osteen offers a strong statement of support for the Israeli people in an interview with CNN's Pierce Morgan Tuesday night, in which the Lakewood Church pastor also discusses whether he would vote for a Jewish or Muslim presidential candidate.
First Things: Whither marriage?

Proponents of same-sex marriage frame their cause in terms of civil rights. There are no significant moral or cultural differences between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples, they presume, and therefore limiting marriage to heterosexual couples amounts to discrimination.

Christian Post: Supreme Court to hear case on church authority, hiring rights
One of the most important religious cases disputed in years, involving the separation of church and state, will soon come before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Muslim News: USA: American Muslims seeking integration are met with discrimination
In a survey conducted earlier this year, a large majority of Muslims demonstrated their affiliation with the American way of life.
Korea Times: Opinion: Religious persecution on the rise
History was supposed to have ended.
Sacramento Bee: Davis' little blue mosque built with community support
They call it the little mosque that could.
AFP: Christians top target of abuse: Vatican
Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican's foreign minister told the UN summit on Tuesday.
CS Monitor: Opinion: Millennial Generation challenges religion in America
While most religions believe their doctrines and practices to be eternal verities, all denominations, like other institutions, must continually enlist and renew the commitment of each new generation if they are to survive and carry on their work.
Christian Post: Palestinian bid for U.N. recognition a sign of the 'last days,' says prophecy author
Christian evangelist and end times author Hal Lindsey believes a push by the Palestinian Authority for statehood recognition by the United Nations is tied to biblical prophecies and is more proof that Christians are living in the "last days."
Catholic Culture: Supreme Court case could affect suits against Church for discimination
A case pending before the US Supreme Court could produce an important new precedent regarding the right of religious groups to set standards for their ministers and other employees.
Salon: How Rick Perry courts the Zionist vote
At a press conference in New York on Tuesday billed "pro-Israel," Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry was flanked by Orthodox Jewish leaders.
Huffington Post: Surveying U.S. and French Muslims
The results of two interesting surveys were released recently: one by the Pew Research Center on U.S. Muslims' lives and attitudes and one by IFOP (the leading French market research and opinion poll institute) on French Muslims and the evolution of their socio-religious attitudes over the past two decades.
Wash. Post: In GOP race, public prayers seem more political than personal
Among the Republican candidates running for president in 2012, there’s been a whole lot of praying in public.
CFR: Muslims in the United States

Since 9/11, the U.S. war on terror abroad and domestic terror incidents involving U.S. and immigrant Muslims have focused attention on Islam in the United States.

WSJ: Converts vs. 'Cradle Catholics'
Do converts to the faith make better evangelists than "cradle Catholics"? Pope Benedict XVI seems to think so.
Al Jazeera: Arabs and Muslims carve a place in the U.S.
"USA! USA!" chanted the mob of hundreds as it tried to march towards Bridgeview's Mosque Foundation just southwest of Chicago.
Toledo Blade: Area Muslims strive to counter 'Islamophobia'

Ten years ago Sunday, Toledo attorney Linda Mansour was watching the 9/11 terror attacks on a courthouse TV when friends and colleagues gave her hugs and words of support.

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