"In recent years the term (faith-based) has come into public use as an abbreviation of "faith-based initiative", e.g. U.S. President George W. Bush's proposal to grant religious charitable social-service groups federal money via the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. "Faith-based" is often used as a euphemism for "religious" in this context, in order to avoid the thorny issue of whether such funding is permissible under the Establishment Clause." - Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith-based#History  Amy Sample Ward