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• SF archbishop jokes about recent DUI arrest

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith’s most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday without referring to … 1

• SF archbishop selection riles gay rights advocates

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith’s most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday without referring to …

• Induction of SF archbishop brings cheers, rebukes

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The installation of a new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco — a backer of California’s same-sex marriage ban — is drawing support and concern as …

• Churches using ‘souls to polls’ to rally vote

  October 2, 2012 in Nation/World MIAMI (AP) — It’s not just the collection plate that’s getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential battleground states and across the …

• Supreme Court Justices attend annual Red Mass

  September 30, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — An American archbishop has reminded a congregation that included six Supreme Court justices Sunday to be open to the spirit of God, beg for his blessings and … 1

• Thousands pray for US at ‘America for Jesus’ rally

  September 29, 2012 in Nation/World PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of conservative Christians gathered Saturday on Independence Mall in Philadelphia to pray for the future of the United States in the weeks before the presidential election. … 3

• Pastors protest Hobby Lobby on morning-after pill

  September 27, 2012 in Nation/World OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Christian activists attempted Thursday to deliver a petition to Hobby Lobby criticizing its challenge to a portion of the new federal health care law, but guards …

• AP IMPACT: Tragedy meant big money for NY minister

  September 24, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Rev. Carl Keyes was a little-known pastor of a small New York City congregation searching for members and money. When … 1

• Bill Nye warns: Creation views threaten US science

  September 24, 2012 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The man known to a generation of Americans as “The Science Guy” is condemning efforts by some Christian groups to cast doubts on evolution and lawmakers … 3

• AP IMPACT: Tragedy meant big money for NY minister

  September 22, 2012 NEW YORK (AP) — Before the Sept. 11 attacks, the Rev. Carl Keyes was a little-known pastor of a small New York City congregation searching for members and money. When …

• Bond at risk for Ohio Amish hate-crime defendants

  September 21, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Nine of 16 Amish convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have remained free, but the government asked Friday to have them locked …

• Ariz. school lands free Mass. Christian campus

  September 21, 2012 BOSTON (AP) — The owners of an historic campus in the hills of western Massachusetts announced Friday that they’ll give it away to a Christian college from Arizona that plans …

• Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio beard-cuttings

  September 21, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen men and women who rejected lenient plea deals are facing lengthy prison terms for their convictions in the hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in …

• Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio hair attacks

  September 20, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious …

• Prophet film puts spotlight on US Copts

  September 20, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The anti-Islamic movie trailer inflaming the Middle East opens with Muslims ransacking a Christian medical clinic and then segues into a flashback of Muhammad’s life. “Set … 1

• FBI: Operation tracking Chicago teen took months

  September 16, 2012 HILLSIDE, Ill. (AP) — The investigation started months ago, when the FBI noticed an email message: A man in the Chicago suburbs was using an account to distribute chatter about … 1

• Calif. filmmaker: I won’t return to besieged home

  September 15, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Southern California filmmaker linked to an anti-Islamic movie inflaming protests across the Middle East was interviewed Saturday at a Los Angeles sheriff’s station and afterward …

• Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar

  September 15, 2012 HILLSIDE, Ill. (AP) — Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors …

• Anger for Islam ties players behind prophet film

  September 15, 2012 DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — The shared belief that radical Islam threatens the world brought together an ex-convict, an insurance salesman and a Christian charity in production of a crudely crafted …

• Anger for Islam ties players behind prophet film

  September 14, 2012 DUARTE, Calif. (AP) — The shared belief that radical Islam threatens the world brought together an ex-convict, an insurance salesman and a Christian charity in production of a crudely crafted …

• Anti-Muslim film promoter outspoken on Islam

  September 14, 2012 HEMET, Calif. (AP) — The public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and …

• Anti-Muslim film promoter outspoken on Islam

  September 13, 2012 HEMET, Calif. (AP) — The public face for the anti-Muslim film inflaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and … 4

• Q&A: Coptic Christians on film sparking protests

  September 13, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The California man who made “Innocence of Muslims,” a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, is a Coptic Christian. The film has sparked protests in …

• Feds ID California man’s role in anti-Islam film

  September 13, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have identified a southern California man once convicted of financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim film that ignited mob violence against U.S. …

• APNewsBreak: US identifies anti-Muslim filmmaker

  September 13, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have identified a Coptic Christian in southern California who is on probation after his conviction for financial crimes as the key figure behind the anti-Muslim … 1

• California man confirms role in anti-Islam film

  September 13, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The anti-Muslim film implicated in mob protests against U.S. diplomatic missions in the Mideast received logistical help from a man once convicted of financial crimes and …

• California man confirms role in anti-Islam film

  September 12, 2012 LOS ANGELES (AP) — The search for those behind the provocative, anti-Muslim film that triggered mobs in Egypt and Libya led Wednesday to a California Coptic Christian convicted of financial …

• Prison seminary program expands in California

  September 12, 2012 NORCO, Calif. (AP) — Robert Ross’ mother died while he was in prison for robbing a bank and he hasn’t seen his 12-year-old son since the boy was in diapers. …

• Bishop’s conviction intensifies calls to step down

  September 7, 2012 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Calls for Bishop Robert Finn’s resignation intensified a day after he became the highest-ranking U.S. church official to be convicted of a crime related to …

• Mo. bishop’s bench trial averts longer jury trial

  September 7, 2012 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge’s conviction of the first American bishop criminally charged in the clergy sex abuse scandal spared young victims in the case from a longer, …

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