Several high-profile South Florida religious organizations and politicians joined a growing chorus of international condemnation Wednesday against a tiny Gainesville church whose pastor wants to observe the Sept. 11 anniversary with a large-scale Quran burning.

The Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami, the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, the Anti-Defamation League and the Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews all spoke out strongly against Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center, which has become an international name -- to the alarm of U.S. government officials -- for its planned protest against the Islamic faith it calls ``of the devil.''