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Newsday: Farmingville church draws immigrants
Ruben Cruzate was the longtime head of Latino outreach at a major evangelical church in Smithtown when a parishioner suggested he become a "missionary" -- not in another country, but in the immigrant stronghold of Farmingville.
AP: Islam making inroads in Haiti since devastating 2010 earthquake
School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country.
AP: Mitt Romney meets with Rev. Billy Graham
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with Rev. Billy Graham, and the aging evangelist pledged to do "all I can" to help the GOP nominee win the presidency.
AP: Evangelical leaders urge support for Romney
Evangelical leaders worried that Mitt Romney's Mormonism could suppress conservative turnout on Election Day are intensifying appeals for Christians to vote.
LAT: Biden-Ryan debate highlights nation's Catholic political divide
Dr. Jack Dolehide remembers the trinity on display in his boyhood home in Chicago in the 1960s: There, in the center, was an iconic image of Jesus. On one side, Mayor Richard J. Daley, the city's legendary Democratic boss. On the other, President Kennedy.
Wash. Post: In Missouri, clergy in the fray of Akin race, seeing it as start of a ‘battle for the soul’ of GOP
Nearly 400 Missouri pastors gathered at the podium of a hotel ballroom recently to pray over the kneeling figure of Rep. Todd Akin, a Senate candidate whose campaign had been pronounced dead by national Republican leaders weeks before.
Orlando Sentinel: Clash over same-sex marriage motivates voters
President Barack Obama sparked a burst of enthusiasm from Florida's gay and lesbian voters and a backlash from conservative Christians in May when he proclaimed unequivocal support for same-sex marriage.
Reuters: Hundreds of pastors back political candidates, defy tax rules
Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.
NYT: Voters in Florida are set to weigh in on two contentious ballot questions
n a year in which most states have steered clear of contentious ballot initiatives, Florida voters are facing two proposed constitutional amendments — one on abortion, the other on the separation of church and state — that could have far-reaching repercussions.
Orlando Sentinel: Amendment 8 pits religious groups against backers of church-state separation
Dead almost 120 years, James Blaine — the GOP presidential candidate in 1884 — is making an appearance in Florida's 2012 election.
Des Moines Register: Ryan courts Catholics during Dubuque stop
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s visit Monday night to a Catholic college in this historically Catholic city underscores the competition in this presidential race over a religious group whose political views cross party lines in key areas.
LA Times: Daystar, TBN ready for Messiah in Jerusalem
If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible, America's two biggest Christian broadcasters are well-positioned to cover it live thanks to recent acquisitions of adjacent Jerusalem studios on a hill overlooking the Old City.
NPR: Catholic bishops ramp up same-sex marriage fight
When the archbishop of Newark, N.J., said that people who support same-sex marriage should refrain from communion, he was just one of several bishops taking aim at such unions.
AP: Christian right election-year rally set for Philly
Christian conservatives who blame "moral depravity" for everything from the recession to terrorism are converging on Philadelphia for a rally they hope will spark a religious revival as Election Day nears.
AP: Uruguay lawmakers narrowly approve legalizing abortion, ground-breaking step in Latin America
Legislators have voted in Uruguay by a razor-thin margin to legalize abortion.
NYT: Republicans intensify drive to win over Jewish voters
Using billboards, television advertisements and finely honed voter lists, Republicans here and in other battleground states have intensified an effort to lure a small but potentially significant group of new or wavering voters from President Obama.
AP: NYC schools dispensing morning-after pill to girls
It's a campaign believed to be unprecedented in its size and aggressiveness: New York City is dispensing the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14 at more than 50 public high schools, sometimes even before they have had sex.
AP: Uruguay Congress debates legalizing abortion, a groundbreaking step in Latin America
Uruguay’s congress appeared ready on Tuesday to legalize abortion, a groundbreaking move in Latin America, where no country save Cuba has made abortions accessible to all women during the first trimester of pregnancy.
AP: Rise of evangelicals changes Brazilian fashion
Strolling down the main shopping drag in this working-class Rio de Janeiro suburb, it's not the second-skin dresses in shocking pink spandex that catch the eye or even the strapless tops with strategically placed peekaboo paneling.
LA Times: In San Francisco, Prop. 8 backer to head Catholic Church
The announcement by Pope Benedict XVI has been dubbed the "Bombshell by the Bay."
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