As word spread that a gunman had opened fire at Fort Hood leaving a trail of carnage, a chilling realization swept across the U.S. Muslim community: He has an Islamic name.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. In a Nov. 4 story about the end of a publishing partnership between pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest, The Associated Press erroneously reported that subscriptions to the Purpose Driven Connection totaled 2,500 to 5,000 per month. Subscriptions were growing by 2,500 to 5,000 per month, a project editor said. A Reader's Digest spokesman declined to release figures but said subscriptions "fell far short of expectations."

STERLING, Va. U.S. mosques fearful of a backlash after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas are stepping up security.

LAKE FOREST, Calif. A joint publishing venture between influential pastor Rick Warren and Reader's Digest magazine has collapsed less than a year after it was announced with great fanfare.

SEATTLE When some 600 atheists, agnostics and other nonreligious folks gather in Seattle starting Friday for a Freedom From Religion Foundation convention, there will be an emphatically nonprayer breakfast.

AMELIA, Ohio An Ohio village's Christmas parade has been canceled amid concerns over possible lawsuits, expected protests and logistical problems.

SACRAMEN TO, Calif. One of the hardest things Ed Donaghy has ever done was leave his ministry as a Catholic priest. For months, he agonized over his conflicting desires to have a family and serve as a priest in the Sacramento Diocese.

Voices of faith: Is it God's job to protect us?

LOS ANGELES When the Rev. Tom Eggebeen took over as interim pastor at Covenant Presbyterian Church three years ago, he looked around and knew it needed a jump start.

CHICAGO Christian Science practitioner Shirley Paulson says witnessing the miraculous consequences of prayer has convinced her that patients should be free to choose the kind of health care that works best for them.

CHICAGO For decades, Sister Donna Quinn has championed the rights of women to use contraception, seek ordination and end unwanted pregnancies.

WASHINGTON As the health care battle moved forward last week, Phil Davis, a senior Christian Science church official, hurriedly delivered bundles of letters to Senate offices promoting a little-noticed proposal in the legislation requiring insurers to consider covering the church's prayer treatments just as they do other medical expenses.

CHICAGO JoBe Cerny, most famous for being the voice of the Pillsbury Doughboy, was on one recent rainy morning sitting in a studio at his Cerny/American Creative, a production company/recording studio on Illinois Street in Chicago. He was drinking coffee and nibbling at some doughnuts and listening to the voice of Jesus Christ as he died on the cross.

Behold Bruce Feiler's optimism. You and your relatives, he says with conviction, can talk about religion and politics at Thanksgiving and survive.

Church volunteers greet visitors entering the lobby. The worship band begins its set and a pastor offers to pray privately with anyone during the service.

The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season.

DENVER James Dobson, the voice of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, will no longer host its flagship radio broadcast and is cutting formal ties with the organization that he founded more than 30 years ago, the evangelical group said Friday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Usually, during the "sharing of the peace" at Hosanna! Lutheran Church in Liberty, Mo., congregants mingle throughout the sanctuary, greeting each other with handshakes and hugs.

LONDON A leading Jewish school asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it racially discriminated against a boy when it refused to accept him as a pupil because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish.

Voices of faith: What can one do about the faithful churchgoers who act hateful?

Tears spring easily to the eyes of Yelena Brooks, a member of the congregation of St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church in Boise, when she talks about the Kursk Root icon.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. This is a busy time for Wiccans as they prepare for the pagan New Year.

WATERTOWN, Mass. It's hard to tell in the quiet of a color-splashed autumn morning, but Redeemer Fellowship Church is trying to set roots in a rough neighborhood. For churches, anyway.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. They were nine corporate funders, executives who help decide where their company's philanthropy goes, walking the same route hundreds of Charlotte, N.C.'s working poor and homeless take every day.

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. The Diocese of South Carolina voted Saturday to distance itself but not completely split from the national Episcopal Church because of church positions on same-sex unions and ordination of gays.

The series of weekend conventions of Jehovah's Witnesses being held at Toyota Center in Kennewick this summer continues today and Sunday. The convention is in Spanish.

Lutheran Church of the Master in Pasco is planning a night of ice cream and fellowship Thursday at the park near Maya Angelou Elementary School at 6001 Road 84.

Several events are planned at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Kennewick through Thursday as part of Parish Mission Week.

HERMISTON -- The Christian women's club Time Out will meet at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Pheasant Cafe banquet room in Hermiston.

A garage sale and bake sale to raise money for mission work in Haiti is from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 15-16 at 6514 W. Ninth Place, Kennewick.

Riverview United Methodist Church in Pasco will hold beach parties from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday and Aug. 17.

Cathedral of Joy in Richland is holding the 2008 "No Hungry Child" Golf Tournament on Aug. 17 at Canyon Lakes Golf Course.