Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/us/religion us Religion News en-us Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:12:49 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/us/religion http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_us/us_baptizing_the_dead ap/20120214/us_baptizing_the_dead AP us Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:12:49 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_us/us_baptizing_the_dead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120214/capt.dff3971cf777431fa8384c0654c2a6e2-dff3971cf777431fa8384c0654c2a6e2-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=VtlIJvBWBIFaaEA2LMwgMA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="FILE-- This 1995 file photo shows Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Mormon church leaders have apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon temple ritual last month. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Mormon church leaders apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized, a controversial ritual that Mormons believe allows deceased people a way to the afterlife but offends members of many other religions.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_us/us_baptizing_the_dead"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120214/capt.dff3971cf777431fa8384c0654c2a6e2-dff3971cf777431fa8384c0654c2a6e2-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=VtlIJvBWBIFaaEA2LMwgMA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title="FILE-- This 1995 file photo shows Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Mormon church leaders have apologized to the family of Holocaust survivor and Jewish rights advocate Simon Wiesenthal after his parents were posthumously baptized in a Mormon temple ritual last month. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_religion ap/20120214/eu_britain_religion AP world Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:57:29 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_religion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120214/capt.51c6fda924a849da8b39222af862ccb5-51c6fda924a849da8b39222af862ccb5-0.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=Vf64U5G8S1ecmvYnvv4BSw--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="FILE - In this Thursday, May 13, 2010 file photo, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Conservative Party's co-chairman and minister without portfolio, arrives at Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, for the first cabinet meeting. Europe is threatened by a wave of 'militant secularism' and religion should play a bigger role in public life, Warsi said Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012, the latest British politician to embrace a subject long viewed as a political minefield. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - When it comes to religion, British politicians tend to heed the famous advice of Tony Blair's spin doctor, Alastair Campbell &mdash; "We don't do God." In contrast to the United States, the deity is rarely invoked on the campaign trail or in political speeches.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120214/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_religion"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120214/capt.51c6fda924a849da8b39222af862ccb5-51c6fda924a849da8b39222af862ccb5-0.jpg?x=78&y=130&q=85&sig=Vf64U5G8S1ecmvYnvv4BSw--" align="left" height="130" width="78" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Thursday, May 13, 2010 file photo, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Conservative Party's co-chairman and minister without portfolio, arrives at Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron official residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, for the first cabinet meeting. Europe is threatened by a wave of 'militant secularism' and religion should play a bigger role in public life, Warsi said Tuesday Feb. 14, 2012, the latest British politician to embrace a subject long viewed as a political minefield. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120213/ap_on_re_us/us_accidental_shooting_church ap/20120213/us_accidental_shooting_church AP us Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:42:30 GMT AP - Authorities say the daughter of a pastor is still in critical condition at a Florida hospital, a day after being accidentally shot in the head at a St. Petersburg church. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/lf_nm_life/us_us_catholics_romney nm/20120213/us_us_catholics_romney Reuters odd Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:01:17 GMT Reuters - Despite a battle over birth-control policy between the White House and Roman Catholic leaders, U.S. Catholics' political views differ little from those of non-Catholic voters, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120213/pl_nm/us_usa_campaign_poll_catholics nm/20120213/us_usa_campaign_poll_catholics Reuters politics Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:54:48 GMT Reuters - Despite a battle over birth-control policy between the White House and Roman Catholic leaders, U.S. Catholics' political views differ little from those of non-Catholic voters, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll results released on Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120213/ts_csm/466012 csm/20120213/466012 The Christian Science Monitor topstories Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:27:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - Sunday’s Grammy Awards opened with heads bowed in prayer for singer Whitney Houston, whose sudden death on Saturday at a Los Angeles hotel rocked the music world. “We had a death in the family.” intoned Grammy host LL Cool J.&nbsp; http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/ts_nm/us_usa_whitneyhouston nm/20120212/us_usa_whitneyhouston Reuters topstories Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:40:59 GMT Reuters - From the New Jersey church where Whitney Houston's singing career first took flight to the Beverly Hills hotel where her life abruptly ended, family and fans of the pop diva expressed their grief on Sunday with prayer, tears and raw anguish. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120212/ap_on_re_eu/eu_turkey_prime_minister ap/20120212/eu_turkey_prime_minister AP world Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:15:26 GMT AP - Turkey's state-run news agency says Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been discharged from hospital a day after undergoing what officials said was a "second and final" intestinal surgery. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120212/ts_nm/us_usa_whitneyhouston_profile nm/20120212/us_usa_whitneyhouston_profile Reuters topstories Sun, 12 Feb 2012 08:11:24 GMT Reuters - Whitney Houston, who was found dead in a Beverly Hills hotel room on Saturday, rose from a gospel church choir in New Jersey to become one of the best-selling and most-admired female singers of all time. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120211/pl_nm/us_usa_contraceptives_obama nm/20120211/us_usa_contraceptives_obama Reuters politics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:22:58 GMT Reuters - U.S. Catholic Church leaders said they will fight President Barack Obama's controversial birth-control insurance coverage policy despite his compromise that religious employers would not have to offer free contraceptives for workers, shifting the responsibility to insurers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_michelle_obama ap/20120211/us_michelle_obama AP politics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:48:52 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_michelle_obama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120211/capt.107333c2c01d4228b8f1ba35670c6b97-107333c2c01d4228b8f1ba35670c6b97-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=s7IBgwx._8sE5uADUSU8Bw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="First lady Michelle Obama dances the platypus dance with Perry the Platypus of the Phineas and Ferb show, left, and choreographer Rosero McCoy, right, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Orlando, Fla., during her three day national tour celebrating the second anniversary of Let's Move. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)" border="0" /></a>AP - Gearing up for a tough political season ahead, Michelle Obama said Saturday she's trying to get as much done as possible before the general election campaign starts to drown out everything else.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_michelle_obama"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120211/capt.107333c2c01d4228b8f1ba35670c6b97-107333c2c01d4228b8f1ba35670c6b97-0.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=s7IBgwx._8sE5uADUSU8Bw--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="First lady Michelle Obama dances the platypus dance with Perry the Platypus of the Phineas and Ferb show, left, and choreographer Rosero McCoy, right, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, in Orlando, Fla., during her three day national tour celebrating the second anniversary of Let's Move. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120211/ts_csm/465674 csm/20120211/465674 The Christian Science Monitor health Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:18:19 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama’s scramble to revise a controversial health-care mandate eased, but did not end, a sharp clash with Roman Catholic Church leaders that spread to Capitol Hill and beyond. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_birth_control_politics ap/20120211/us_birth_control_politics AP politics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:26:40 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_birth_control_politics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120210/capt.76ee4f7d6b4c4b3eb4502a4c1eda2739-76ee4f7d6b4c4b3eb4502a4c1eda2739-0.jpg?x=130&y=119&q=85&sig=CENKe6icd00XjLqAfCpVIQ--" align="left" height="119" width="130" alt="President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, where he announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)" border="0" /></a>AP - Under fierce election-year fire, President Barack Obama on Friday abruptly abandoned his stand that religious organizations must pay for birth control for workers, scrambling to end a furor raging from the Catholic Church to Congress to his re-election foes. He demanded that insurance companies step in to provide the coverage instead.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120211/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_birth_control_politics"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20120210/capt.76ee4f7d6b4c4b3eb4502a4c1eda2739-76ee4f7d6b4c4b3eb4502a4c1eda2739-0.jpg?x=130&y=119&q=85&sig=CENKe6icd00XjLqAfCpVIQ--" align="left" height="119" width="130" alt="photo" title="President Barack Obama concludes his remarks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, where he announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120210/ts_nm/us_usa_contraceptives nm/20120210/us_usa_contraceptives Reuters health Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:44:58 GMT Reuters - President Barack Obama, in an abrupt policy shift aimed at quelling an election-year firestorm, announced on Friday that religious employers would not be required to offer free birth control to workers and the onus would instead be put on insurers. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120210/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_birth_control_politics_reax ap/20120210/us_birth_control_politics_reax AP politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:49:42 GMT AP - The White House has support from a key Catholic health group on its compromise birth control policy. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120210/ts_csm/464834 csm/20120210/464834 The Christian Science Monitor health Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:43:20 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - So what does contraception at a Catholic hospital or college have to do with a $109 billion highway bill? http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20120210/ts_csm/464828 csm/20120210/464828 The Christian Science Monitor topstories Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:16:45 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - A New York man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he created and ran militant Muslim websites – including RevolutionMuslim.com – to encourage others to engage in violent actions to defend Islam from perceived attacks in the West. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_el_pr/us_graduation_no_prayer ap/20120209/us_graduation_no_prayer AP Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:55:07 GMT AP - A federal judge who was vilified by Republican presidential hopefuls for banning prayer at a Texas high school graduation delivered a scathing and unusually personal response Thursday, saying those who used the case to further political goals "should be ashamed." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120209/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_birth_control_biden ap/20120209/us_birth_control_biden AP politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:47:49 GMT AP - Vice President Joe Biden says he believes the Obama administration can address concerns raised by the Catholic church and religious groups about a new birth control policy that says church-affiliated employers must provide contraceptive coverage for their employees. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/religion/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20120209/lf_nm_life/us_britain_religion_women nm/20120209/us_britain_religion_women Reuters topstories Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:35:57 GMT Reuters - The Church of England moved closer to the consecration of women bishops on Wednesday when it voted against giving strengthened legal protection to traditionalists who favor an all-male clergy, a decision that could lead more to switch to Rome.