This Week in Religion (November 5)

Evangelical leader Dobson leaving radio show  
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.
 Dobson, 73,
and the board of directors both agreed about the moves, which will go
into effect at the end of February, ministry officials said. The
decision to part ways was amicable and long anticipated, said Gary
Schneeberger, spokesman for the Colorado Springs-based group.
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   Lutherans ask for forgiveness for 16th-Century persecutions 
 GENEVA (RNS/ENI) Lutheran World Federation leaders plan to apologize
for their ancestors' 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists, religious
reformers whose successors include Mennonites and the Amish.
 "We ask for forgiveness -- from God and from our Mennonite sisters
and brothers -- for the harm that our forebears in the sixteenth
century committed to Anabaptists," says a statement adopted unanimously
on Monday (Oct. 26) by the LWF's council.
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