Top Religion Stories

Christianity Today reported these as the top ten religion news stories of 2007:

1. Taliban kidnap of Korean short-term mission team, killing two
2. Atheism tops the bestseller charts
3. Presidential campaigns start early, with some faith surprises
4. Ruth Graham’s death
5. Anglican Communion fractures over Scripture, homosexuality
6. Three Christians tortured and killed in eastern Turkey
7. Lions of the Religious Right pass away (Jerry Falwell and D. James Kennedy)
8. President of Evangelical Theological Society returns to Catholicism
9. Campaign to oust NAE's Richard Cizik fails
10. Supreme Court upholds 2003 federal partial-birth abortion ban