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UPI: World's Christian populations surveyed
There are 2.18 billion Christians around the world, nearly a third of the estimated 2010 global population of 6.9 billion, a demographic study found.
Catholic World News: Christians remain world's largest religious bloc
Christianity remains the world’s largest religion, measured by the number of the faithful.
St. Petersburg Times: For Obama, religion remains an issue
Bundled in winter coats and holding hands, President Barack Obama and his family left the White House last Sunday and strolled through a park to St. John's Episcopal Church.
Today's Zaman: Dialogue and justice
The 4th UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum was held in Doha, Qatar, Dec. 11-13 with strong international participation.
Gulf Times: Positive change in perception on Muslim-West ties: survey
A panel at the UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Forum in Doha tackled the subject of Muslim-Western relations in the context of the post-9/11 period.
Peninsula: Respect Arab democracies, West urged
A top European diplomat yesterday called on the West to stop patronising the Arab Spring and respect the results of the democratic elections that are taking place in the post-revolution Arab countries.
National Catholic Reporter: Survey of Catholics illuminates life in the pews
The research team, commissioned by The National Catholic Reporter (NCR), which included William D'Antonio of The Catholic University of America (CUA), Mary Gautier of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University and Michele Dillon of the University of New Hampshire, recently completed the fifth survey of U.S. Catholics.
Detroit Free Press: Hindu American Foundation holds forum in Farmington Hills, works to spread message of pluralism and peace
The Hindu American Foundation held a forum Saturday in Farmington Hills, raising $30,000 from local residents to help spread its message of pluralism and peace.
Denver Post: Campaign seeks lapsed Catholics' return to fold
Catholics Come Home, a lay organization faithful to church teachings, is launching the church's first nationwide television ad campaign inviting millions of inactive and former Catholics to return to the fold.
Wash. Post: Religious lobbying groups multiply on Capitol Hill
The field of religious advocacy has mushroomed on Capitol Hill in recent decades, a new survey shows, with the number of groups growing fivefold since 1970 and hundreds of millions spent each year to influence issues from school vouchers and immigration to the right of women overseas to have abortions.
NCR: Opinion: Faith and globalization: the Italian perspective
The 21st century is unlikely to see a fundamental conflict of political ideology in the way the 20th century was dominated by it.
Huff. Post: Why Harvard's Humanist chaplaincy is announcing two atheist-led initiatives at Park51 Islamic center
With Republican debates dominating the political conversation in recent weeks, the most circulated religion-related stories have pitted the "Godly" against the "Godless."
CNN: Latino evangelicals challenge Alabama brethren on immigration
When the Alabama legislature approved what is considered the nation's toughest anti-illegal immigration law, much of the state's religious community was quick to condemn it.
America Magazine: Whom do Catholics support in 2012?
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life provides a portal into their data on all questions of religion and politics in the scope of the upcoming 2012 presidential election.
Time: The candidate religious voters want in 2012
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life this afternoon released a report on presidential preferences for religious groups.
Holland Sentinel: Skeptics in the Pub offers place for questioners
Growing up in Zeeland in the 1970s, it was simply common knowledge that Sundays were not for play.
RNS: U.S. Muslims get their turn at reality TV
From rich housewives to hoarders to the Kardashian clan, practically every kind of family has received the reality TV treatment — except for American Muslims.
Courier-Journal: GOP campaign prompts critics of the Mormon faith
A Mormon congregation of more than 1,000 listened attentively at the Hurstbourne Parkway meeting house on a recent Sunday as the speakers preached and gave testimonies.
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah churches reach out to ‘lost’ generation
A year ago, Tyler Pruitt was skeptical of Christianity.
ENS: Christian conversion opens new world, strains old one
Yifei Shen kept her conversion to Christianity and the Episcopal faith a secret from her family for months.
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