Tuesday’s religion round-up

President Obama will travel to Fort Hood today for a memorial service dedicated to the victims of last week’s shooting. Meanwhile, journalists and investigators continue dig into Maj. Nidal Hasan’s background. Federal law enforcement officials said he corresponded with a radical American imam now living in Yemen who led a Virginia mosque attended by two […]

President Obama will travel to Fort Hood today for a memorial service dedicated to the victims of last week’s shooting. Meanwhile, journalists and investigators continue dig into Maj. Nidal Hasan’s background. Federal law enforcement officials said he corresponded with a radical American imam now living in Yemen who led a Virginia mosque attended by two 9/11 hijackers. The mosque, however, says that Hasan was not an active member. Hasan also allegedly told co-workers that the military should release Muslim soldiers as conscientious objectors asking them to go to war against other Muslims. In 2007, while Hasan was a psychiatric resident at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, instead of giving a presentation on a medical topic, he lectured on Islam, suicide bombing and threats the military faces from its Muslims members, who may be conflicted over fighting fellow Muslims overseas.

The U.S. Catholic Bishops say they “will remain vigilant and involved” as the health-care reform bill moves to the Senate. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., says the IRS should investigate the bishop’s “political hardball” on the abortion-amendment debate. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the Rhode Island Democrat who criticized the bishops for opposing health-care reform unless it omitted federal funding of abortion and the state’s Catholic bishop, who questioned Kennedy’s Catholic bona fides, have cancelled their meeting.

Scott Roeder told the AP he killed abortion doctor George Tiller to protect unborn children. An Ohio woman says a Seventh-Day Adventist hospital refused to help her get pregnant because she’s not married. The New Mexico teenager accused of killing a nun tried to commit suicide.


The White House faith-based office has a new Web site. Progressive Catholic women religious say the Vatican investigation is an affront to their dignity, and the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican is caught between his faith and his service to the pro-abortion rights president he serves.

The Lutheran Church of Sweden consecrated a female pastor who is believed to be the first openly gay Christian bishop. China is still mad at the Dalai Lama, and Mexico’s Catholic clergy are looking for help amid the drug-cartel violence. A 16th century Hebrew Bible looted by the Nazis was returned on Monday. French businesses are reluctant to accommodate Muslim fashions.

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