#1 Catholics, Muslims agree on forum aimed at easing tensions

VATICAN CITY - Catholic and Muslims leaders announced a new Catholic-Muslim Forum to regularize dialogue between the two faiths and sooth lingering tensions sparked by a papal speech in late 2006.'

#2 Response ‘cool’ to look at social inequalities

NEW ORLEANS - Episcopal Bishop Charles Jenkins is floating the idea of a new effort to battle social and economic inequalities in New Orleans, perhaps modeled on the work of a South Africa post-apartheid commission.

#3 Trend of later marriage may hurt church rolls

PRINCETON, N.J.- As increasing numbers of young people postpone marriage and children, other life choices - like returning to church - are affected as well, according to a leading scholar of American Protestantism.