US pastor's sermons become issue in Obama presidential campaign

New York (ENI). Sermons by the former pastor of aspiring presidential candidate Barack Obama's Chicago church have become a heated issue in the US presidential campaign, triggering varying responses during the past week. The controversy centres on sermons delivered by Jeremiah A. Wright Jr, the recently retired senior pastor of the church, Trinity United Church of Christ, which is in a mainly African American Chicago neighbourhood. [472 words, ENI-08-0239]

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