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Tuesday's Religion News Roundup: God loves Nessie, Obama still Christian, Where are the American imams?

A Christian textbook says the Loch Ness Monster is proof of Creationism; 44 percent of Americans don't know Obama's religion; American mosques in search of American imams.

Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: God loves Nessie, Obama still Christian, Where are the American imams?

A monster story! A Scottish newspaper reports that the Loch Ness Monster is offered as proof of Creationism in an American Christian textbook.

The Vatican says the sexual abuse scandal is but one reason men aren't itching to become priests. Wrongheaded parents is another.

An Iowa radio show host suggests the “Nuns on the Bus” should be “pistol whipped,” and his guest, a congressman, laughs it off.


Gallup poll: 44 percent of Americans can't name President Obama's religion; 34 percent know he's Christian and 11 percent, mostly Republicans, wrongly think he's Muslim.

The Supreme Court says it doesn't want to hear the case of the cross on San Diego's Mt. Soledad.

Russian Orthodoxy meets Native American spirituality in an Alaska cemetery.

American mosques want American imams but can't find them.

NPR says the FBI has investigated 100 suspected Muslim extremists in the military and tries to shed some light on religious violence in Nigeria.

Compared to Nigeria, Kashmir has been relatively peaceful for years, but the burning of a Sufi Muslim shrine has the region on alert.

Three ultra-Orthodox Jewish men were charged for defacing Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel graffiti.

– Lauren Markoe

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