Gays and lesbians in the Presbyterian Church (USA) celebrated the official end of the ban on noncelibate gay clergy. Advocates told HuffPo that they didn’t expect any ordinations on Sunday, but knew of several closeted clergy who planned to come out.
A standing-room only crowd packed a Boston church yesterday for a long-awaited Mass in support of gay and lesbian Catholics, capping a month of controversy after the archdiocese postponed the service.
A Manhattan judge dismissed a lawsuit by a former New York City firefighter who is trying to stop the construction of an Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan, NYT reports.
Since 9/11, Sikhs have reported at least 700 bias attacks perpetrated by people who mistake them for Muslims, the AP reports.
WaPo continued its series on Muslims in America by profiling a Somali-American trying to counter a wave of young men in Minneapolis who have joined al-Shabab, a militant Islamic group in Somalia. It’s not clear whether the dearth of support for Abdirizak Bihi stems from a communal reluctance to combat homegrown radicalism, or his own incompetence.
CNN explores how Hindus are assimilating in Texas.
Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with relatives of seamen held hostage by pirates, and encouraged pirates to be less piratical.
The Catholic bishops of the Philipines apologized for accepting free SUVs from lotto operators in an apparent exchange for political support.
Poland’s president made repeated apologies in a ceremony marking 70 years since Polish villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors in a WW2 massacre.
The European Court of Human Rights dismissed two challenges to Switzerland’s bans on the building of minarets.
The NYT profiles an Orthodox Jewish shamus whose motto is “put your tuchis on the table.” In other words, says PI Joe Levin, “‘Show me the proof.’ And that’s what I do. I bring my proof to the people.”
Mitt Romney made a joke about his Mormon underwear. Religion Dispatches thinks a Fox affiliate’s coverage of Mormonism is a joke.
The NYT catches up with the International House of Prayer in KC, which has prayed without ceasing for 12 years.
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