While Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is aggressively courting evangelical Christians and Catholics, a new group has been formed to enhance the faith-based outreach of Democratic candidates and liberal advocacy groups.

The Eleison Group plans to expand on the work of Common Good Strategies, which was instrumental in the religious outreach of the 2006 campaigns of Democratic Governors Ted Strickland, Jennifer Granholm, and Kathleen Sebelius, as well as those of U.S. Senators Bob Casey, Jr., (D-Pennsylvania) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)...