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Obama Campaign Taps Young Assistant to Reach Out to Faith Community

By UCN on May 15, 2012 7:52 AM

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands after speaking at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at the University at Albany on May 8, 2012 in Albany, New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America)

President Obama's re-election campaign has tapped a 23-year-old executive assistant in the White House faith-based office to head up its outreach to religious communities.

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Day of Prayer In Colorado Ruled Unconstitutional

By UCN on May 15, 2012 7:16 AM

Kathy Daniels, left, and Jeanne Krueger, both of Millcreek Township, near Erie, Pa., attend the National Day of Prayer event at Erie City Hall Council chambers on May 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Erie Times-News, Jack Hanrahan)

A Colorado appeals court panel recently ruled that the state's Day of Prayer is "predominantly religious" and violates the constitutional rights of nonbelievers.

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Catholic Bishops Ask Girl Scout Leaders to Clarify Programs, Material

By UCN on May 12, 2012 4:58 PM

The sometimes tense relationship between the Catholic Church and the Girl Scouts appears to be moving toward a resolution, as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has asked scout leaders to clarify programs and material that some religious conservatives think promote contraception and abortion.

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Ann Romney Says Mormon Faith Should Not Be an Issue In Presidential Campaign

By UCN on May 12, 2012 4:55 PM

Wife of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Ann Romney (2R) listens as Mitt Romney delivers the commencement address at Arthur L. Williams Stadium on the campus of Liberty University on May 12, 2012 in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Jared Soares/Getty Images North America)

Ann Romney said Friday that she hoped people wouldn't make their family's Mormon faith an issue in the presidential campaign.

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DNC Delivers Prebuttal to Mitt Romney's Commencement Speech at Liberty University

By UCN on May 11, 2012 5:21 PM

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (C) and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (L) talk with students during a roundtable discussion at Otterbein University April 27, 2012 in Westerville, Ohio. (Jay LaPrete/Getty Images North America)

Mitt Romney's commencement speech at Liberty University on Saturday may be a significant moment for the presumptive Republican nominee's relationship with the evangelical community, but Democrats are not ready to give up the powerful voting bloc and are even trying to use this weekend's speech to draw a distinction with Romney.

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New Poll: 1 in 6 Americans Still Believe Obama Is A Muslim, Romney Sees Support Among Evangelicals Jump

By UCN on May 10, 2012 1:51 PM

After nearly four years in the Oval Office, President Obama is incorrectly thought to be Muslim by one in six American voters, and only one quarter of voters can correctly identify him as a Protestant, according to a new poll.

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More Nonbelievers Getting Involved In Politics Than Ever More

By UCN on May 10, 2012 9:22 AM

Cristina Rad speaks to the crowd at the Reason Rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC (ep_jhu / Flickr)

One of the biggest growth areas in political activism around religion is coming from an unlikely source: the nonreligious. And it's happening far from the marbled corridors of power in the nation's capital.

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"Mojave Cross" War Memorial Fight Is Over Thanks to Land Swap Deal

By UCN on May 9, 2012 6:07 PM

The war memorial known as the "Mojave Cross" sat on an outcrop known as Sunrise Rock in the Mojave Desert until it was vandalized and stolen in May 2010. (Liberty Legal Institute via AP file)

A federal judge has approved a land swap that could end an 11-year legal battle over the right to display a cross memorializing war veterans in a remote part of the Mojave Desert.

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Alabama Town Votes to Return Bible Verse On City Welcome Signs

By UCN on May 9, 2012 2:56 PM

City council members unanimously voted Tuesday to return the bible verse to the town's welcome signs.

Sylvania city council members unanimously voted to return the Bible verse to the city welcome signs Tuesday.

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Conservative Catholics Upset Over Kathleen Sebelius' Georgetown University Speech

By UCN on May 8, 2012 8:29 AM

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addresses the second annual National Summit on Preventing Youth Violence April 2, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images North America)

Last month liberal Catholics were upset over House Republican budget chief Paul Ryan using a Georgetown University platform to defend his hard-line fiscal plan as a natural outgrowth of his Catholic faith. Dozens of Georgetown faculty and administrators wrote a letter welcoming Ryan but blasting his understanding of Catholic teaching and asking him to explain his views during his talk at the university's Public Policy Institute.

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