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Monday’s religion round-up

Daniel Burke

Attorney General Eric Holder said hate crimes against Muslims have “escalated dramatically” since 9/11. The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Del. filed for bankruptcy on the night before a series of clergy sex abuse cases was to go to court. Utah’s plans to protect assets in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints after its leader went to jail have gone seriously awry.

A Catholic priest imprisoned for killing a nun 29 years ago now says he’s innocent, a Franciscan priest who sired a child and became the subject of a front-page story in the New York Times has been suspended from parish duties, and the retired leader of a New Age religion that preached nuclear Armageddon died. Atheists are divided about how mean to be to believers. Minister Louis Farrakhan warned followers not to be “pacified” by President Obama’s election.

Christian parents in Nigeria are killing children believed to be witches. German prosecutors have filed a complaint against a British bishop who denies elements of the Holocaust, Christians in Honduras are turning to a Catholic figurine amid the political crisis, and couples from Middle Eastern countries that don’t recognize interfaith marriages are eloping to Cyprus. A man killed 15 people — including the prayer leader — at a mosque in Iraq.


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