It’s the National Day of Prayer, and evangelicals are rallying on Capitol Hill this morning. POTUS, who discontinued White House prayer day ceremonies but nonetheless issued a proclamation, is headed to Ground Zero to mark the death of Osama bin Laden this afternoon.
CNN profiles the bin Laden family‘s unique understanding of Islamic family values. Taking out OBL got a thumbs up from Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the guy behind the controversial Islamic center near Ground Zero. WaPo’s fact checker asks whether OBL was, or wasn’t, a “Muslim leader.”
The guy who was wanted in connection with last year’s bombing of a mosque in Jacksonville, Fla., was shot and killed by FBI agents in Oklahoma. Another man wanted in connection with a barbershop murder in Massachusetts turned himself in to New York police with the help of a local pastor.
Seventh-day Adventist students can continue working in a Tennessee nursing home (with the not-so-appealing name of the Laurelbrook Sanitarium) without violating child labor laws, a federal appeals court ruled.
Gay alumni and their supporters are rallying around gay and lesbian students at the evangelical flagship Wheaton College.
The LAT says Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney will have to duke it out to see who’s the better Mormon Republican. Interesting story from last week about military training as Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell is repealed: one Marine asks why his “religious beliefs” are being set aside in favor of political correctness. The answer: they’re not.
Remember the Kansas Jehovah’s Witness who sued to get a “bloodless” liver transplant because Medicaid only pays for regular transplants? She won.
The Vatican promised to discipline a Canadian bishop who pleaded guilty to keeping a stash of kiddie porn. South Korean media have more details about the apparent self-crucifixion of a man who was later found dead.
Down Under, they’re fighting over churches’ right to discriminate even when they receive direct government funding. Turkey is getting in touch with its Christian heritage.
Entertainment Weekly gives Roland Joffe’s new “convoluted” Opus Dei epic “There Be Dragons” a C+. (Joffe talks to our own Dan Burke about the film here)
CT talks to actor Mark Ruffalo (top left) about his new film, “Sympathy for Delicious,” and how to respond when God hands us a “bag of doo-doo” in life. Catholic hipster theologian Tom Beaudoin explores the theology of Lady Gaga.
— Kevin Eckstrom
