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ABC News: God has no place in politics and should not have been used by churches in the United States to influence the presidential election, a council representing 342 Christian groups around the world said.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) told U.S. member churches in a letter released late yesterday, Nov. 3, that they should not ask whose side God was on in an election but only offer "a moral and spiritual compass for their community, their nation and the world."

The letter by WCC General Secretary Rev. Samuel Kobia chided some U.S. churches for presenting God in partisan terms.

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