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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup: Romney courts evangelicals, a Neo-Nazi becomes Baptist, and not-so-Catholic Brazil

Hoping to appeal to Jewish voters, Romney is going to Israel. Behind-the-scenes, Romney courts evangelicals.

Mormons court everybody - with Facebook.

The head of the Assemblies of God, the nation's largest Pentecostal body, accuses Obama of "twisting Scripture" to defend gay marriage.

Pope picks fellow German to lead the doctrine-enforcing office that's trying to keep American nuns in line.

Speaking of the nuns, they're off the bus.

Former financial officer of the Roman Catholic Church in Philly pleads guilty to stealing $900,000 from the church.

Brazil: A record decline in Catholics in what is considered the world's largest Catholic country.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference taps businessman Charles Steele Jr. as its new CEO.

A Neo-Nazi sheds the hate and embraces the Baptists.

Thirty arrested in sectarian violence in Myanmar, where Muslims and Buddhists are clashing.

And hope in India, as Hindu-Muslim violence ebbs. The NYT explains.

- Lauren Markoe, Washington, D.C.,  still praying for small "p" power


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