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We value your comments, suggestions and feedback, so please e-mail us. Quote of the Week: "When I came here four years ago, one thing I found striking was all the greenery that had begun to come back. And I was reminded of a passage from the book of Job. `There is hope for a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.' The work ahead will not be easy, and there will be setbacks. There will be challenges along the way. But thanks to you, thanks to the great people of this great city, New Orleans is blossoming again.
" —President Obama, speaking Sunday (Aug. 29) at Xavier University in Louisiana.
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Beck wants to lead, but will evangelicals follow? By Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON (RNS) Southern Baptist executive Richard Land was pleased at how religious Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally turned out to be. Bishop Harry Jackson, a black evangelical leader, was pleasantly surprised that the Fox News talk show host said things "some of my close friends could have written." And Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. was among the faith leaders to enlist in Beck's new "Black Robe Regiment." In the wake of the conservative commentator's rally on the National Mall last weekend (Aug. 28), some evangelical leaders say he sounded all the right religious notes. But…
The State Department says the imam planning to build the Islamic center near Ground Zero is wrapping up his diplomatic tour of the Persian Gulf early, returning to the U.S. on Wednesday.
On Tuesday in Dubai, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told a group of intellectuals that the fight over the mosque is about more than "a piece of real estate" and could shape the future of Muslim relations in the U.S.
RNS CHURCH MERGE—(RNS1-AUG27) Margaret Conetsco, 85, sits next to a wooden life-size statue of St. William inside the newly formed SS Robert & William Catholic Church in Euclid, Ohio. Conetsco donated the statue after her former church, St. Robert, merged with St. William. A statue of St. Robert was brought over, but St. William's never had a statue of St. William. For use with RNS-CHURCH-MERGE, transmitted Aug. 27, 2010. RNS photo by Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer.
RNS-MUSLIMS-911 Not all victims of 9/11 are remembered equally. So say Muslims who lost loved on 9/11. They say opponents of the proposed Park51 Islamic community center near Ground Zero, by conflating the project and Islam in general with terrorism, not only disregard that many Muslims were killed on 9/11, but equate Muslim victims with the terrorists who committed the attacks. Omar Sacirbey reports.
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RNS-JEWISH-CHICKENS: Orthodox ritual chicken slaughter brings protests
(RNS) Nicole Neroulias writes about efforts to convince ultra-Orthodox Jews to change or cancel their annual chicken slaughtering ritual before the Yom Kippur observance. About 850. With photos.
RNS-RAMADAN-SCHOOLS RNS-RAMADAN-SCHOOLS: Muslims want holy days on school calendars
NEW
YORK (RNS) There are only about 10 school districts in the U.S. that
give Muslim students time off to celebrate the end of Ramadan, and so
far efforts to add Eid al-Fitr to the school calendar here in the
nation's largest school system have fallen flat. Nicole Neroulias
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