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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two U.S. officials say preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests the suspects in the Boston Marathon attack were motivated by their religious views but were apparently not tied to any Islamic terrorist groups. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
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North Carolina Won’t Establish State Religion
Posted by admin on April 4th, 2013
It turns out North Carolina won’t be establishing its own religion after all. A resolution proposed this week by GOP state lawmakers that said the state has the right to declare an official religion will never come to a vote. The legislation, House Joint Resolution… Tweet This Post
Lawmakers Want State Religion in North Carolina
Posted by admin on April 3rd, 2013
Republican lawmakers in North Carolina introduced a bill to allow the state “to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies statewide,” WRAL-TV reports. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: A fascinating correlation between religion & politics, in 1 map
Posted by admin on March 11th, 2013
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No Comments »Baha’is most persecuted religion in Iran: U.N. investigator
Posted by admin on October 22nd, 2012
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Members of the Baha’i community in Iran are the most persecuted religious minority in the Islamic Republic, where suppression of alternative faiths is growing worse, U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed said on Monday. Shaheed also warned that the increasingly harsh sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Baha'is, investigator, Iran, Most, persecuted, Religion, U.N. No Comments »Fewer Americans Have a Religion, Fewer Protestant
Posted by admin on October 9th, 2012
Nearly 20 percent of Americans do not identify with any particular religion, according to a new poll. The number is much higher among younger Americans, according to the survey from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. For the first time less than half… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Secretary Clinton Delivers Powerful Religion Speech After Middle East Embassy Attacks
Posted by admin on September 14th, 2012
Secretary Clinton delivered a powerful and personal speech about religion at an Eid ul-Fitr reception, marking the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan. The speech, at times, was a direct response to the attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in the Middle East, and the… Tweet This Post
Romney Accuses Obama of Waging “War on Religion”
Posted by admin on August 9th, 2012
Continuing his recent shift from talking solely about economic issues, Mitt Romney’s campaign released a new ad which reaches out to religious voters by decrying Obama’s “war on religion.” Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
