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Southern Baptist pastor appeals suit over Obama’s birth
(RNS) Southern Baptist gadfly Wiley Drake will appeal a court's dismissal of his suit claiming President Obama was not born in the U.S. and is ineligible for the presidency.
Obama has a Hawaiian birth certificate but Drake and others in the "birther" movement claim he is not a natural...
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Feds tell Tenn. officials to protect Muslims’ building rights
WASHINGTON (RNS) Islam is a valid religion that is entitled to constitutional protection, said a U.S. attorney who stepped into a debate about a proposed mosque and Islamic center in Tennessee.
"To suggest that Islam is not a religion is quite simply ridiculous," said U.S. Attorney Je...
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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
The Obama administration has filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the rights of Muslims to build a disputed mosque in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in what one church-state expert called a "rather unusual move."
Four Muslim men were convicted on Monday on charges of attempting to plant...
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Tea party more religious than U.S., less than conservative Christians
WASHINGTON (RNS) American who identify with the "tea party" are more religious than the general population, but are less religious than conservative Christians, according to a new American Values poll.
The survey by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute found that 11 perc...
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Pastor at center of Quran burn could face $200,000 bill
(RNS) The Florida pastor who abruptly called off plans to burn hundreds of Qurans could still face a $200,000 bill from law enforcement agencies that were called in to provide security at the protest.
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., pulled th...
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COMMENTARY: A test of faith for Jesus, and for us
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (RNS) It's a long journey from The Sagamore, the one-time clubhouse to the fabulously wealthy who summered here in the Adirondacks, to next Sunday's stint in the pulpit of a middle-class congregation in New Mexico.
It is more than a journey along the westward migrati...
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Indiana Rep. Mike Pence wins Values Voter straw poll
WASHINGTON (RNS) Rep. Mike Pence, a fast-rising conservative firebrand from Indiana, was the surprise winner of a straw poll on Saturday (Sept. 18) among 17 possible Republican presidential candidates at the 2010 Values Voter Summit.
Pence beat out better known conservative leaders, i...
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Skateboarder an overnight sensation after rescuing Quran
(RNS) At the end of a summer characterized by unprecedented levels of Islamophobia, Muslim Americans and their allies have found an expected reason to smile: Jake Isom, a skateboarder with a rat-tail from Amarillo, Texas.
Last Saturday (Sept. 18), Isom, 23, snatched a kerosene-soaked...
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Poll: Glenn Beck the wrong leader to head religious movement
(RNS) Glenn Beck's recent "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington focused more on faith than politics, but most Americans don't consider the conservative broadcaster the right person to lead a religious movement -- or even know what religion he follows, according to a new poll.
Fewer th...
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Wednesday’s roundup
The State Department says the imam planning to build the Islamic center near Ground Zero is wrapping up his diplomatic tour of the Persian Gulf early, returning to the U.S. on Wednesday.
On Tuesday in Dubai, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told a group of intellectuals that the fight over the...
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