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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright was an early concern,

After he moved to Chicago in the mid-1980s to work as a community organizer, Barack Obama forged close ties with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- joining the pastor’s Trinity United Church of Christ in 1988 and using the topic of a Wright sermon, "the audacity of hope," as the title of his most recent best-selling book.

But more than a year ago -- long before some of Wright’s more incendiary sermons became hot-button videos on YouTube, forcing Obama to publicly renounce his pastor last week -- the Obama campaign had a sense that Wright's sharp tongue might spell trouble for the Illinois senator: Read More from the LA Times

Pope to Visit US

Pope Benedict XVI will travel to the United States for the first time as pontiff next year to meet with President Bush, address the United Nations and visit ground zero, a Vatican official told American bishops Monday. Benedict will visit only Washington and New York during his April 15-20 trip, despite invitations from bishops elsewhere around the country.

He will celebrate public Mass at the new Nationals Park stadium in Washington and at Yankee Stadium, according to Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican ambassador to the United States. Read more By RACHEL ZOLL,AP Religion Writer

Religion, Whom Should We Follow?

There are more than 200 version of the Bible in more than 300 Languages. How can anyone possibly know what religion he or she should truly believe in? Did God in any version ever name a particular religion as the one we should follow? With every religion, their Bible state that they are the true religion, that they are preaching the true word of God. Really? How can any of them really say that? As of today, there hasn't been any proof submitted that when Moses returned from the mountains carrying the Ten Commandments, it said, Jehovah Witness, or Seventh Day Adventists or even Mormon was the only and the righteous religion. Read more