WASHINGTON — A group of Ohio ministers has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the organization that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast because it received money six years ago from an alleged Islamic terrorist organization trying to finance illicit lobbying.
The activist group Clergy Voice complained Wednesday that the Fellowship Foundation violated its obligation as a tax-exempt organization not to deal with such entities.
The foundation, an Arlington, Va.-based religious enterprise associated with a house at 133 C St. SE in the District of Columbia where several members of the House and Senate have rented rooms, acknowledged Wednesday that it had received two $25,000 checks, in May and June 2004, from the Islamic American Relief Agency.
Denver Post wire services
