Monday’s round up

Osama Bin Laden issued a new message in which he says that the war in Afghanistan is “hopeless” for the U.S. The Dalai Lama met with high-ranking U.S. officials in India ahead of his October visit to New York and Washington. The Vatican will tell the ultra-conservative Society of St. Pius X to respect Jews […]

Osama Bin Laden issued a new message in which he says that the war in Afghanistan is “hopeless” for the U.S. The Dalai Lama met with high-ranking U.S. officials in India ahead of his October visit to New York and Washington. The Vatican will tell the ultra-conservative Society of St. Pius X to respect Jews and other Christians. A Michigan order of Catholic sisters said a Vatican-ordered investigation was a “pleasant conversation” with no questions asked. Seven Episcopal bishops, fresh from a meeting earlier this month with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, say individual Episcopal dioceses and churches should be allowed to sign on to a Anglican covenant. The “resident fundamentalist” on President Obama’s faith-based (…) council says he may quit.

An Idaho court ruled that a homeless shelter can discriminate against non-Christians because the shelter is not a “dwelling” and an Indiana court said a lawsuit seeking to remove a star of David carved into the U.S. Supreme Court is frivolous. An anti-abortion group has chapters in 29 states working to define fertlized embryos as “persons” and shop owners in a tiny town in Lancaster, Pa., said they would rather shutter their shops than serve pagans. A Texas church marked 10 years since a gunman killed seven and wounded seven others gathered for a Christian rock concert.

“Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown says he was an Episcopalian but quit as a teenager when the Bible ceased to “make sense” to him. A Catholic bishop is upset that Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal will consider claims by an altar boy that he was “fired” because he’s gay. An Austrian man who prayed for deliverance while trapped in an elevator went to a Viennese parish to thank God after his prayer was answered. He was crushed to death when a stone altar fell on him.


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