News Corp Shopping Around BeliefNet

News Corp (NWS) is hoping to unload some of its online properties, including religion-centered social network Beliefnet, Kara Swisher reports.

Murdoch’s company purchased Beliefnet in late 2007 for an undisclosed sum.

The company may also be planning to unload Jamba/Jamster, which it bought 51 percent of in 2006 for $187.5 million, and finalized the purchase in 2008.

The Fox Digital Media group, which is the segment of News Corp that owns Beliefnet, lost money last quarter. News Corp’s most

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