EU trade chief apologizes for Jewish comments (AP)
AP - The EU's trade chief apologized Friday for blaming Jews and the "Jewish lobby" in Washington...

NY Catholic, Jewish, Muslim police tour Holy Land (Reuters)
A view of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, and the Dome of the Rock, on the left, in the Old City of Jerusalem, in a file photo. REUTERS/Ammar AwadReuters - Brian Reilly's visit to Jerusalem had a special touch this year because Jewish and Musl...

Back from the USSR, Judaism enjoys German renaissance (AFP)
A procession walks into the synagogue for a ceremony to ordain rabbis Moshe Baumel and Shlomo Afanasev by the Central Council of German Jews in the historic synagogue of the Jewish Community of Leipzig.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - Judaism is making a comeback in Germany 65 years after the Holocaust, thanks largely to imm...

Farrakhan supports planned mosque near ground zero (AP)
AP - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said Thursday an Islamic community center and mosqu...

Paris mosque slams burger chain's Muslim outreach (AP)
Consumers queue at in fast-food chain restaurant which offer Halal burgers in Fleury Merogis, south of Paris, Wednesday, Sept.1 2010. Starting Wednesday, bacon burgers are a thing of the past in 22 outlets of French fast food chain Quick, where offerings are being tailored to meet the dietary needs of France's large Muslim community. The business decision to target an under-exploited market has unsettled some in France as the country debates what integration means and prepares to ban burqas. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)AP - Note to big companies hoping to tap into France's lucrative but long-neglected Muslim consum...

John Walker Lindh seeks Ind. prison prayer ruling (AP)
FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2002, file photo John Walker Lindh is seen in a photo released by the Alexandria County Sheriff's Department in Alexandria, Va., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2002. The American Civil Liberties Union last Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, filed a motion in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis on behalf of Lindh, an American-born Taliban fighter to order a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where they are being held, to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell block to pray as a group, in accordance with their beliefs. (AP Photo/Alexandria County Sheriff's Department)AP - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge...

Builders of NYC mosque face financial hurdles (AP)
VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)AP - The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center s...

Mormon church, Jewish leaders tackle proxy baptism (AP)
AP - The Mormon church says it has changed its genealogical database to better prevent the names ...

Methodist survey aims to stop membership decline (AP)
Doug Kniptash, of Carmel, Ind., speaks at The Garden, a contemporary service of St. Luke's United Methodist Church at the Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre in Indianapolis on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. A clip from the movie 'The Wizard of Oz'is shown on a screen in the background. 'Worship is like going to a mall,' the church's senior pastor, the Rev. Kent Millard said. 'There are all kinds of stores. Some people like specialty shops. Some like department stores. When you have variety, people can go where they like.' (AP Photo/Tom Strickland) (AP Photo/Tom Strickland)AP - It's the conundrum Protestant denominations with declining memberships and shrinking budgets...

New York imams say Muslims are Americans, too (Reuters)
VIDEO: The proposed construction of a 100-million-dollar, 13-story mosque and Islamic center near Ground Zero in New York City, has stirred raw emotions in the United States as the country prepares to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Duration: 01:00(afp.com)Reuters - New York City Muslims declared themselves just as American as opponents of an Islamic c...

Police release 911 tape after church slaying (AP)
AP - Police have released a tape of a 911 call in which a man suspected of fatally shooting a Mor...

Religion News in Brief (AP)
AP - A lawsuit filed by a federal agency claims Somali Muslim workers at a meatpacking plant in N...

New York imam: Mosque fight about Muslim role (AP)
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, right, leads the prayers during an Iftar ceremony hosts by Dubia Scholl of Government in Dubai, United Arab Emirates,Tuesday Aug. 31, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - The imam leading plans for an Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New Yo...

Book based on interviews with pope due out this year (Reuters)
Reuters - Pope Benedict has granted a series of interviews to a German journalist who will publis...

Felipe Oliveira Baptista named Lacoste's artistic director (AFP)
Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista at the end of his Fall-Winter 2009 Haute Couture collection show in Paris 2008. Baptista has been appointed creative director of Lacoste, the label with the distinctive crocodile logo announced Tuesday.(AFP/File/Pierre Verdy)AFP - Portuguese designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista has been appointed creative director of Lacost...