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The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.
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Experts: Palin's religion misunderstood
An unusual video showing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, being blessed by a Kenyan bishop against witchcraft has rattled liberal bloggers and fueled scorn among her detractors, but religious experts say the matter has been blown out of proportion by ignorance and intolerance.
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Watchdog group files 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday' complaints with IRS
A Washington-based watchdog group has filed six complaints with the Internal Revenue Service after dozens of clergy participated in a challenge to rules that ban politicking from the pulpit.
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A Chinese Muslim in Gitmo legal limbo
Though eligible for freedom, detainee labeled a foe of China is going nowhere.
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Justices poised for full docket
The Supreme Court reconvenes next week to hear cases on a wide variety of issues, such as government involvement in religion, "dirty words" on broadcast television and the treatment of Muslim terrorism suspects.
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Pastors using pulpits to endorse candidates, defy IRS regulations
Pastor Luke Emrich prepared his sermon this week knowing his remarks could invite an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service.
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Partisan Sunday Sermons Test Federal Tax Laws
The Rev. Fran Pultro shrugged off federal laws restricting his role in partisan politics Sunday, telling 45 people at Calvary Chapel on the King's Highway in Philadelphia that preserving conservative social values was of the utmost importance in this election.
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Orange County pastors test the IRS rule against politicking
Dozens nationwide use their pulpits to endorse presidential candidates.
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33 Pastors Flout Tax Law With Political Sermons
Defying a federal law that prohibits U.S. clergy from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, an evangelical Christian minister told his congregation Sunday that voting for Sen. Barack Obama would be evidence of "severe moral schizophrenia."
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Iraqi Christians protest end to legislative quotas
Iraq's prime minister sought safeguards Sunday for small religious communities in this mainly Muslim country as Christians protested parliament's decision to stop setting aside seats for minorities on provincial councils.
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China's Muslims say Ramadan a time of repression
All that was left on the chin of the Muslim man praying at the huge brownstone mosque was a small patch of stubble. He said officials had forced young men in China's far western Xinjiang region to cut off their beards at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
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