Obama quits race row preachers' church

Barack Obama said today he had resigned his 20-year church membership “with some sadness” in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his long-time pastor the Rev Jeremiah Wright and fiery remarks by another minister.

“This is not a decision I come to lightly ... and it is one I make with some sadness,” the Democrat presidential hopeful said at a press conference in Aberdeen, South Dakota, after campaign chiefs released a letter of resignation sent to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, on Friday.