Wolrd Religion

A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated televangelist Frederick Price's defamation lawsuit claiming ABC's "20/20" news program used a fictionalized sermon portraying himself as a wealthy braggart out of context.

The clip ABC aired of the prosperity preacher it aired was actually a sermon on greed in which the preacher slips into the role of a fictional character who is wealthy but unhappy.

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The American public continues to express conflicted views of Islam.

Favorable opinions of Islam have declined since 2005, but there has been virtually no change over the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence.

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Girls in the polygamous community of Bountiful "were to be treated like poison snakes" and taught that their role was to "have lots of children and obey the men," says an affidavit filed in the B.C. Supreme Court in connection to a landmark polygamy case.

"The boys were taught not to interact with the girls and that the girls were to be treated like 'poison snakes,' " says the affidavit, filed earlier this month by Truman Oler, 28, who grew up in Bountiful and left the community when he was about 21.

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