Wednesday’s religion round-up

Federal authorities charged two Chicago men with plotting terrorist attacks in Europe, including the offices of the Danish newspaper that published anti-Muslim cartoons several years ago. An anti-abortion activist is calling on people to burn effigies of Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, e-Bay says it will block an auction to raise money for the […]

Federal authorities charged two Chicago men with plotting terrorist attacks in Europe, including the offices of the Danish newspaper that published anti-Muslim cartoons several years ago. An anti-abortion activist is calling on people to burn effigies of Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid, e-Bay says it will block an auction to raise money for the man charged with killing abortion provider George Tiller, and a federal court dismissed a Christian adoption agency’s challenge to President Obama’s policy on embryonic stem-cell research.

A Georgia court ruled that a breakaway Episcopal church in Savannah must cede property rights to the Diocese of Georgia. Franklin Graham paid Sarah Palin $1,664 to deliver food to western Alaska while she was governor of the state, and evangelicals are trying to convert those frosty secularists in New England. A former Home Depot cashier says he was fired for wearing a button reading “One Nation Under God.”

A slain New Jersey priest talked about firing the janitor accused of killing him, according to court records and discredited NYT reporter Jayson Blair will speak at a journalism seminar next month. This topic is ethics.


A leading Jewish school in England is appealing a ruling that it unlawfully discriminated against a prospective student because his mother is not Jewish. A predominantly Muslim part of Indonesia is trying to ban women from wearing tight pants.

And yet hipsters here get away with skinny jeans.

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