February 4, 2009
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Q&A: Faith-Based Hiring and the Obama Administration
President Barack Obama has signaled he may overturn a Bush administration policy that permits faith-based groups receiving federal funding to consider religion when hiring. Church-state scholar Ira "Chip" Lupu explores the history of faith-based hiring law and discusses how the Obama administration might change it. Go to the Q&A »

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Graphic:
 Faith-Based Aid Favored - With Reservations
Survey Report:
Public Views of Faith-Based Initiatives
Q&A:
 John DiIulio on Faith-Based Initiatives in an Obama Administration

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Special Report: Evolution and Religion
Two hundred years after Charles Darwin's birthday (Feb. 12), evolution and religion remain a combustible mix. A new special report gives an overview of the debate, examines its social and legal dimensions and reviews the life and ideas of an unlikely revolutionary. See resources on evolution »
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Jan. 30 - Religion News Service
Report: African-Americans Surpass Others in Religiosity
Pew Forum research shows African-Americans are more religiously observant than the U.S. population as a whole.

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Top Religion Headlines
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Feb. 4 - The Associated Press
Vatican: Holocaust Denier Must Recant

Feb. 3 - The Associated Press
Diverse Group To Advise Faith-Based Office

Feb. 3 - Time
The Tide Shifts Against the Death Penalty

Feb. 3 - The Christian Science Monitor
How Pastors Are Soothing Congregants in Recessionary Times

Feb. 3 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Obama Keeping Stem-Cell Advocates Waiting

Feb. 3 - The Independent
A Coup for Maliki and a Secular Iraq

Feb. 2 - The Canadian Press
Do Obama's Nods to Non-Believers Signal Turning Tide for U.S. Atheists?

Feb. 2 - The Associated Press
Obama Administration Drops 'War on Terror' Phrase

Jan. 31 - The Washington Post
Progressive Faith Groups Now Trying To Shift Debate

Jan. 29 - Time
Rural Churches Grapple with a Pastor Exodus

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