Religious leaders meeting in Pittsburgh outside the G-20 Summit were told their concerns for the poor will be discussed at the conclave. The White House Faith-based (…) office held a town hall meeting in New Hampshire (primary state already?) on fatherhood, and Catholics, Lutherans and Methodists will mark 10 years since they agreed on how Christians are saved. Four teachers at an Episcopal school in Florida say they were fired only to be replaced by younger, more buxom women.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I will convene a meeting on the environment in New Orleans next month, the presiding bishop of the ELCA said it would be “devastating” if conservatives withheld donations, and Philippine nationals claiming to be Jehovah’s Witnesses allegedly forged $116 billion in bonds to finance religious missions. A rabbi told a House committee considering a gender discrimination bill that equal treatment is “a core teaching shared by an array of faith traditions” and a former bank robber found Jesus in a Florida county jail. A Florida woman who stabbed a priest outside the confessional last April will not serve jail time.

Pope Benedict XVI will visit Portugal’s Fatima shrine next year and maybe Britain, too, according to the British press. Beyonce says she won’t be a “Naughty Girl” when she performs in Muslim Malaysia next month. Under court orders, a Roman Catholic magazine in Poland must pay nearly $11,000 to a woman for equating her advocacy of legalized abortion with Nazism. Polygamy charges against a FLDS community in British Columbia have been tossed out and a Spanish court says a woman can testify while wearing a burka a facing away from the gallery.

Finally, a Guantanamo prisoner says he has lost faith in President Obama. “I say to him now that he has gone astray,” he said.