Fewer Spaniards say they are Catholic: study (AFP)

People sunbathe as people taking part in the AFP - The proportion of Spaniards who say they are Roman Catholic has fallen to 73 percent from around 80 percent eight years ago, according to a survey released Thursday by the CIS research centre.
Rise of independent groups influencing Judaism (AP)

In this July 16, 2010 photo, members of the religious group Minyan Tehillah, Gershon Marx, right, of Somerville, and Lieba Savitt of Somerville, holding her one-year-old son Eliyah, prepare for a Saturday morning Kabbalat Shabbat worship service at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, in Cambridge, Mass. The group is an 'independent minyan,' and dozens of these unaffiliated Jewish worship communities have sprung up in the past decade, mixing elements of the mainstream denominations while answering to none of them. A Torah scroll is in the foreground. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)AP - They gather blocks from Harvard Square to greet the Sabbath with communal prayer, their eyes winced closed, hands clapping as they sing in fervent Hebrew. The group worships in the Jewish Orthodox tradition, but it's not traditional.
New Russia holiday marked as Kremlin boosts Church (Reuters)

Orthodox priests conduct a service marking adoption of Christianity, in the center of Moscow, July 28, 2010. Russia officially celebrated a new holiday on Wednesday marking its conversion to Christianity in 988, the latest Kremlin boost to an Orthodox Church that has grown increasingly powerful since the fall of Communism. REUTERS/Mikhail Voskresensky (RUSSIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY POLITICS)Reuters - Russia marked its adoption of Christianity in 988 on Wednesday with a new public holiday, the latest show of Kremlin support for an Orthodox Church that has grown increasingly powerful since the fall of Communism.
Pilgrims must pay to attend 2 pope events in UK (AP)
AP - Pilgrims will have to pay as much as 25 pounds ($39) to attend one of the two public events in England to be led by Pope Benedict XVI during his visit in September, church officials said Wednesday.
Official: Ukraine church blast kills 1, wounds 8 (AP)
AP - A bomb blast Wednesday at a southern Orthodox church in Ukraine has killed one person and wounded eight, officials said
Religion News in Brief (AP)
AP - The highest court in the United Methodist Church will review its 2005 ruling that allowed a clergyman to bar a noncelibate gay man from joining a congregation.
Jewish collector's heirs sue Hungary for return of art works (AFP)

Visitors look at paintings of Renaissance master El Greco in Beaux Arts Museum in Brussels on February 2010. The heirs of a Jewish banker whose vast art collection was allegedly confiscated during World War II have sued the Hungarian government demanding its return, a report said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Georges Gobet)AFP - The heirs of a Jewish banker whose vast art collection was allegedly confiscated during World War II have sued the Hungarian government demanding its return, a report said Wednesday.
Indonesia's Muslims told to switch off gossip TV (Reuters)
Reuters - Indonesia's highest Islamic authority has forbidden Muslims from viewing gossipy content in the country's media after a celebrity sex clip scandal dominated television news in the past month.
NY probing fake nun linked to notorious 'church' (AP)
AP - New York's attorney general is on the trail of a fake nun who dons a habit and cross to solicit donations for a phony church with a violent past.
Malaysian Muslims party on despite religious crackdown (AFP)

A tourist walks through a bar decorated with balloons for the weekend in Kuala Lumpur. Malays, who make up 60 percent of the population, are forbidden to have sex out of wedlock or drink alcohol under the Sharia legal system which runs in parallel to the civil courts in Malaysia. Despite this Kuala Lumpur's top clubs are packed with fashionably dressed youngsters including Muslim Malays.(AFP/Saeed Khan)AFP - Dusk has fallen and the party is just beginning for 29-year-old Asyikin, one of the many young Malay Muslims who hang out in Kuala Lumpur's vibrant Bukit Bintang nightlife district.
Gay Lutheran pastors to join church roster (AP)
AP - Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in the nation's largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination.
Saudi cleric says Muslim women can respect veil bans (AFP)

Saudi women sit at a book cafe in the coastal city of Jeddah in May 2010. A leading Saudi cleric hit out at France for moving to ban Muslim face-veils, but approved Muslim women foregoing veils when visiting a country which outlaws them, a Saudi paper reported on Saturday.(AFP/File/Amer Hilabi)AFP - A leading Saudi cleric hit out at France for moving to ban Muslim face-veils, but approved Muslim women foregoing veils when visiting a country which outlaws them, a Saudi paper reported on Saturday.
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