Religion News in Brief

2010-03-03T09:32:50Z

<div id="subtitle">Religion News in Brief</div><div><p>Pope Benedict XVI will make a two-day visit to Spain in November, with a stop in Barcelona to consecrate the famed Sagrada Familia church, his spokesman said.</p><p>The Rick Warren gets $2.4M in donations, double his request from earlier in week</div><div><p>Evangelical pastor Rick Warren's plea for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch brought in $2.4 million, Warren announced to cheers during a sermon at the church on Saturday.</p><p>Warren said the amoun...

Rick Warren Donations

2010-01-02T20:45:51Z

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008 file photo, Pastor Rick Warren signs his book "The Purpose of Christmas" at Barnes & Noble bookstore in New York. Evangelical pastor Rick Warren says his call for donations to fill a $900,000 deficit at his Southern California megachurch has brought in $2.4 million. (AP Photo/

OC megachurch pastor asks for urgent donations

2010-02-23T07:46:02Z

<div id="subtitle">Orange County megachurch pastor asks for nearly $1 million in donations by January 1</div><div><p>Evangelical pastor Rick Warren appealed to parishioners at his Orange County megachurch Wednesday to help fill a $900,000 deficit by the first of the year.</p><p>Warren made the appeal in...

Anti-Gay Pastor Rick Warren Begs For $900,000

2010-02-23T07:45:10Z

<div id="subtitle">Rick Warren is begging parishioners for $900,000 before January 1</div><div><p> <p>The Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-selling book 'The Purpose Driven Life', is begging parishioners for $900,000 before January 1.</p> <p>In a...

Warren Rethinks Uganda Anti-Gay Bill Stance

2010-02-23T17:48:00Z

<div id="subtitle">Rick Warren has reversed course on a proposed anti-gay bill in Uganda</div><div><p> <p>The Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-selling book 'The Purpose Driven Life', has reversed course on a proposed anti-gay bil...

Rick Warren's Conflicting Gay Message

2010-02-23T22:58:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Rev. Rick Warren returns to the spotlight with a mixed gay message</div><div><p> <p>The Reverend Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church and author of the best-selling book 'The Purpose Driven Life', is slowly returning to the spotlight with a mixed gay message.</p> <...

Guests for the Sunday TV news shows

2010-02-24T00:01:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Guests for the Sunday TV news shows</div><div><p>Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:</p><p>___</p><p>ABC's "This Week" — Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, independent from Vermont.</p><p>___&am...

Correction: Rick Warren-Reader's Digest story

2010-02-24T08:51:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Correction: Rick Warren-Reader's Digest story</div><div><p>In a Nov. 4 story about the end of a publishing partnership between pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest, The Associated Press erroneo...

Rick Warren, Reader's Digest part ways on project

2010-02-24T09:47:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Publishing venture pairing Pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest crumbles within a year</div><div><p>A joint publishing venture between influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest magazine has collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great fanfa...

Megachurch pastor Rick Warren addresses US Muslims

2010-02-26T13:25:33Z

<div id="subtitle">Pastor Rick Warren tells Islamic convention Muslims and Christians must work together</div><div><p>Defying some of his fellow conservative Christian critics, one of the most prominent religious leaders in the country told several thousand American Muslims on Saturday that "the two largest faiths on the planet" must work together to combat stereotypes and solve global p...

Rick Warren

2009-07-04T18:30:23Z

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren speaks at the Islamic Society of North America 46th annual convention in Washington, Saturday July 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

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Pastor Rick Warren to address American Muslims

2010-02-26T14:17:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Megapastor Rick Warren, major Jewish leaders befriend largest American Muslim group</div><div><p>Sayyid Syeed remembers an interfaith event several years ago when a Jewish leader went to embrace him, saw someone snapping a photo, then suddenly pulled back.</p><p>"He said to the man, `Stop,'" Syeed recalled, "`I'll lose my job.'"</p&am...

Religion Today

2009-07-01T08:45:39Z

FILE - In this June 23, 2009 file photo, evangelical pastor Rick Warren speaks to about 800 people under a large tent at St. Vincent's Episcopal Cathedral Church in Bedford, Texas. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam, file)

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Warren tells breakaway Episcopalians to love all

2010-02-26T17:43:45Z

<div id="subtitle">Megachurch pastor Rick Warren tells breakaway Episcopalians to love people, not world's values</div><div><p>Christians must show love to all people, even if they don't support their values, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren on Tuesday told breakaway Episcopalians and other Anglicans splitting from their national church over gay clergy and other issues.</...

Episcopal Split Warren

2009-06-23T18:47:28Z

Evangelical pastor Rick Warren speaks to about 800 people under a large tent at St. Vincent's Episcopal Cathedral Church in Bedford, Texas, Tuesday, June 23, 2009. About 800 Episcopalians splitting from their national church over a dispute about gay clergy gathered to hear the evangelical megachurch pastor, who said they need to love people but not the wo...

Florida News - January 20, 2009

2009-04-30T06:49:47Z

012009 met inauguration by Brandon Kruse/The Palm Beach Post -- Supporters pray with Rick Warren while he gives the inaugural invocation to the millions of attendees who braved the cold to see the Presidential Inauguration Tuesday afternoon in Washington, D.C

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Obama Inauguration

2009-04-29T21:31:35Z

The Rev. Rick Warren, of the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., gives the invocation as President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, left, bow their heads during swearing-in ceremonies at the U.S. Capito...

Orange County News - January 20, 2009

2009-04-29T12:49:53Z

Mike Johnston watches as Saddleback Church's Rick Warren, on television, gives the invocation at the inauguration ceremonies for Barrack Obama. The Johnston's invited members of their small group to their home in Lak...

King Holiday Atlanta

2009-04-28T21:14:43Z

The Rev. Rick Warren delivers the King Day keynote address at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. King's nephew Issac Newton Farris is shown in the background. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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