Yr hmbl aggregator is exhausted and inspired after two days of shop talk with 200 fellow scribes at the Religion Newswriters Association conference in Durham, N.C.
Special congrats to the awardees, especially the fetching Cassels Award winner, who holds a special place in this aggregator’s heart. The winning work will soon be posted at RNA.org.
Now to the news.
A group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists is backing an ambitious project that seeks to register 5 million new conservative Christians to vote in the 2012 election, the LA Times reports. Liberals say they plan to match the religious right’s might in battleground states.
Muslim groups denounced the FBI’s use of training material that characterized Prophet Muhammad as a “cult leader” and linked Muslims’ religious devotion to a potential for violence.
A former church member stormed into a Florida church and opened fire, shooting and wounding the pastor and associate pastor from behind before he was wrestled to the ground.
Anti-gay-marriage activists says Dems lost Anthony Weiner’s congressional seat in part because Orthodox Jews were upset over the state’s legalization of SSM.
Norwegian confessed mass murderer Anders Breivik was prevented from making statements at a court appearance today.
Wisconsin atheists are suing the Treasury Department and IRS, saying that the housing allowance for ministers is unconstitutional.
The Air Force Chief of Staff issued a memo telling AF leaders to “avoid the actual or apparent use of their position to promote their personal religious beliefs to their subordinates.”
The French ban on praying in the street has driven thousands of Muslim worshippers into makeshift prayer sites, including a disused fire brigade barracks.
The Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero is opening a temporary space at the site where a photo exhibit will be the first public program. Those photos will be scrutinized like the Dead Sea Scrolls, twenty of which, by the way, will be shown publicly for the first time in Times Square next month.
A group of American Muslims and Christians left Tehran after talks with Iranian clerics on the two Americans hikers jailed there.
Pope Benedict XVI says that he’s looking forward to praying with Protestants later this week in the Augustinian monastery where Martin Luther “began his path.”
An Illinois couple is suing two B&B’s after the inns refused to host a civil union ceremony.
The National Labor Relations board says St. Xavier University — St. Xavier U! — is not religious enough to qualify for immunity from NRLB oversight.
CT asks where the legal line should be in religious rituals that scare children.The issue arose after a Pennsylvania woman made her 7-year-old daughter eat the heart of a sacrificed chicken.Yum.
Yr hmbl aggregator,
Daniel Burke
