JOS, Nigeria (AP) _ Security forces have imposed a curfew in central Nigeria after rioters armed with machetes slaughtered more than 200 people in renewed violence between Muslims and Christians.
Hundreds of people have fled their homes, fearing reprisal attacks.
Local journalists and a civil rights group say the bodies of the dead lined the streets of [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) _ President Barack Obama meets with his faith-based advisory council today to get its recommendations on issues ranging from poverty and climate change to reforming the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Critics have urged the office — a holdover from the previous administration — to withhold funding from religious charities that hire only [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ All but one of the U.S. Baptist missionaries charged with kidnapping in Haiti have now been released, but the group’s leader remains in custody.
Charisa Coulter was taken from her jail cell to the airport by U.S. Embassy staff on Monday — more than a month after she and nine other Americans [...]

NEW YORK (AP) _ For becoming a Christian and helping Israeli intelligence fight Hamas, Mosab Yousef has been disowned by his father — a founder of the Islamic militant group.
But the author of the memoir “Son of Hamas” says he now worships a God who will never disown him.
Since leaving Islam, Yousef has come to [...]

MARYVILLE, Ill. (AP) _ It’s been a year since a pastor was gunned down during a Sunday sermon at his southwestern Illinois church. Now, the First Baptist Church of Maryville is remembering the tragedy.
The church is inviting the public to its services this Sunday to recognize the life of the Rev. Fred Winters. Winters’ widow, [...]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ The Rev. Don Wildmon has resigned as chairman of the American Family Association, a Christian political movement he founded that now boasts millions of followers.
Wildmon says his resignation follows months of health problems, including hospitalizations for treatment of encephalitis, which he got from a mosquito bite, and cancer on his left [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ Two Americans still jailed on kidnapping charges in Haiti will have to wait for their freedom.
A Haitian judge says he’s not ready to release his decision after holding a final hearing.
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil says he’s consulting with prosecutors on the charges against Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter. Saint-Vil had said earlier [...]

BOONE, N.C. (AP) _ The Reverend Billy Graham has retired from preaching, but the 91-year-old evangelist is still writing books and offering spiritual counsel to callers and visitors.
The Reverend Franklin Graham says his father has spoken on the phone in recent months with President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, and was visited [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) _ A Haitian judge says he will likely order the release of the last two Americans detained for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the earthquake.
Judge Bernard Saint-Vil tells The Associated Press he expects to resolve the case after a hearing Tuesday. Saint-Vil said Monday he plans to [...]

BAGHDAD (AP) _ Iraqi Christians in Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul have rallied to protest attacks on Christians and to call for government protection.
International Christian Concern reports that hundreds of Iraqi Christian families have fled Mosul in recent weeks to escape “targeted killings” there.
Insurgents have often targeted Iraqi Christians. Last week, Iraq’s [...]