KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP, 5/9/08) — A Malaysian Islamic court allowed a Muslim convert Thursday to return to her original faith of Buddhism, setting a precedent that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights.

NEW YORK (AP, 5/9/08) — In the days since Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, Eh Taw Dwe has heard only snippets about the villages he left behind when he fled the country.

(AP, 5/9/08) — When "Horton Hears a Who," is there a sermon to be heard?

VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP, 5/9/08) — A man with a guitar and a megaphone climbed atop a convenience store roof to serenade commuters with his musical protest of high gasoline prices — until police halted the impromptu concert.

(AP, 5/9/08) — Prominent evangelicals urged Christian conservatives Wednesday to support "an expansion of our concerns beyond single-issue politics," angering some leaders on the religious right who have been closely allied with the Republican Party.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (ENI, 5/9/08) — Nigerian Christian and Muslim religious leaders are meeting in the northern city of Maiduguri, seeking ways to rebuild broken relationships that were once harmonious between the two largest faiths in Africa's most populous nation.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (5/8/08) — Barring any visa troubles, some 3,000 Christians from Stone-Campbell churches in at least 28 countries are expected to be in Nashville, Tenn., for the 2008 World Convention, the gathering of the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches / Churches of Christ (sometimes called “independent”) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

NEW YORK (ENI, 5/8/08) — Bartholomeos I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, has joined the Dalai Lama as one of two international religious figures named in the "Time 100" list, the people deemed by Time magazine to be the world's most influential people.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP, 5/8/08) — The leader of an apocalyptic sect in northeastern New Mexico has been arrested and charged with felony sex crimes against children.

WARSAW (ENI, 5/8/08) — A group of Russian Orthodox entrepreneurs has found a way to ease the continuing post-Soviet shortage of places of worship by devising a plan to provide instant prefabricated churches that can be assembled in 24 hours.