The Christian Post reports:

Over 1,000 pastors are set to defy the IRS next month by intentionally preaching on politics. The ultimate goal is to reach the court so that the “muzzle” on churches can be declared unconstitutional.

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Apprising Ministries fills you in and suggests that you stay tuned as there indeed may be more to this. View article →

News Max reports:

Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That’s a worrisome message for the nation’s first African-American president, who can’t afford to lose any voters from his base in a tight race.

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Lifesite News reports:

A priest who helped found a gay ‘marriage’ advocacy group for Catholics has been suspended from distributing the sacraments or representing himself publicly as a cleric by his bishop.

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Americans United for Separation of Church and State is once again attempting to intimidate churches into silence during election season by using an unconstitutional law. Alliance Defending Freedom reports that AU sent over 60,000 letters to churches across the country attempting to intimidate them into not becoming involved in “partisan politicking” during the election. The letter warns: “If the IRS determines that your house of worship has engaged in unlawful intervention, it can revoke the institution’s tax-exempt status or levy significant fines on the house of worship or its leaders.” View article →

Apprising Ministries with the latest on this sad story which even touched the publishing horn of the SBC. View article →

The Christian Post reports:

The Coptic Orthodox Church Diocese of Los Angeles is condemning an anti-Muslim film that has enraged the Arab world and may have been created by a man who occasionally attends churches within the diocese.

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The Baptist Press reports:

Media giants such as Facebook, Google and Apple should voluntarily abide by the First Amendment’s free speech requirement and fulfill their role as “gatekeepers to new web-based communications platforms,” according to a new proposal from the National Religious Broadcasters.

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The Christian News Network reports:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to woo voters in the state of Virginia yesterday by slamming the Democratic party for removing the mention of God from their platform and claiming that he would never make such an omission, while being careful not to use any language that referenced the god of Mormons.

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Christian Newswire reports:

In recent months, the media has been flooded with images of citizens gathering in city centers and lining the streets holding banners, waving signs, and speaking up for their religious freedom. Simultaneously, American courtrooms are now bursting with lawsuits brought by businesses and religious organizations demanding protection of their rights of conscience.

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Life News reports:

After massive public backlash, Democrats have put God back in their platform, but it took three votes on the floor of the Democratic convention to do so.

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ABC News reports:

For Democrats, there is no God in 2012 — at least as far as the party’s platform is concerned.

Nor is there a Jerusalem.

Democrats removed those two words, and the passages surrounding them, from the 2012 party platform as it was released this week.

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The Christian Science Monitor informs us that self-professed messiah Sun-myung Moon, who believed he was ordained by God to minister to the world “built up a global commercial empire, founding the Washington Times 30 years ago along with newspapers in Seoul and Tokyo and numerous other enterprises in fields ranging from publishing to tourism to fishing.” View article →

Life News reports:

The movie Field of Dreams promised, “If you build it, they will come.” The Planned Parenthood abortion business built a big stage and set up a large area for Democrats to attend their rally today. And no one came.

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Fox News reports:

Democrats unveiled a party platform at their national convention Monday that echoes President Obama’s call for higher taxes on wealthier Americans while backing same-sex marriage and abortion rights.

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Life News reports that a recently released list of speakers for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, is noticeably lacking in pro-life advocates. Rather, the “list is long on speakers who have spent their entire political careers advocating for abortion.” As a result, some pro-life supporters have labeled the DNC as a “Celebration of Abortion.” View article →

The Washington Post reports:

Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major political party, sat in the Wolfeboro Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday as, one by one, members of his congregation credited him for bringing the faith more into the public eye.

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The Christian Post reports:

On Sunday, the Pennsylvania Pastors Network launched its second Pulpit Sunday where preachers in the state didn’t shy away from politics.

Pastors throughout Pennsylvania are signing up to preach about cultural and moral issues every first Sunday of the month until the November elections.

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Fox News reports:

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed messiah who turned his Unification Church into a worldwide religious movement and befriended North Korean leaders as well as U.S. presidents, has died, church officials said Monday. He was 92.

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