Monday’s religion round-up

Focus on the Family patriarch James Dobson is stepping down from its signature radio broadcast, the Catholic bishop of Brooklyn is making robocalls on behalf of a City Council candidate, and an Oklahoma town plans to open the country’s first and only all-Christian prison (insert joke here). The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota elected a straight […]

Focus on the Family patriarch James Dobson is stepping down from its signature radio broadcast, the Catholic bishop of Brooklyn is making robocalls on behalf of a City Council candidate, and an Oklahoma town plans to open the country’s first and only all-Christian prison (insert joke here).

The Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota elected a straight male, instead of a lesbian, as bishop. Native Americans in Massachusetts say an offshore wind farm will ruin their sacred rituals, which require a clear view of sunrise. Washington’s state Capitol has banned religious displays in an attempt to avert the Christmas wars.

Texas churches may pave the way for Episcopalians to become Catholics, a Muslim doctor applying for jobs in Dallas was told she couldn’t wear her headscarf, and Scientology is having a tough fall.


Genetics, not piety, may explain why churchgoers tend to be such teetotalers, and the State Department has secretly resettled 60 Yemeni Jews in the U.S.

Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury in two weeks, the Vatican says married Anglican priests who want to convert will be considered on a case-by-case basis, and 10,000 pilgrims gathered at a Irish shrine hoping to see the Virgin Mary, despite pleas from an archbishop to ignore it.

Muslims in Egypt are re-thinking their guidelines on the veil, the Dutch are marking the fifth anniversary of filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was killed by a Muslim fanatic, and the Dalai Lama says China overpoliticizes his travels.

AP photo is of van Gogh.

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