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November 13, 2011 - CNN
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.
November 09, 2011 - America Magazine
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.
November 08, 2011 - Time
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.
November 07, 2011 - The Holland Sentinel
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.
November 07, 2011 - Religion News Service
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.
November 06, 2011 - The Courier-Journal
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.
November 03, 2011 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah churches reach out to ‘lost’ generation
A year ago, Tyler Pruitt was skeptical of Christianity.
November 01, 2011 - Episcopal News Service
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.
October 30, 2011 - The Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem Post: Opinion: Are young rabbis turning on Israel?
For all the theological, ritualistic and institutional differences separating the Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform movements, for all their divergent approaches to revelation, halacha and communal decision- making, what distinguishes the groups in the minds of many ordinary American Jews comes down to branding.
October 28, 2011 - Desert News
Desert News: Muslim reality show proves they're 'not from Mars'
A new reality television show may offer some viewers their first glimpses into the lives of Muslim Americans, showing that they face the same challenges and experience the same joys as any other American."
October 28, 2011 - The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun: The state of North American evangelicalism
The North American media seem obsessed with evangelical Protestants. Except for the occasional article about Pope Benedict XVI, evangelicals tend to be the dominant religion news makers. After all, evangelicals are often controversial.
October 25, 2011 - The Jewish Weekly
Jewish Weekly: Opinion: How many U.S. Jews, and who cares?
The last national Jewish population study, done in 2000-2001, was pretty much a disaster.
October 25, 2011 - Catholic Online
Catholic Online: 'Liberal' Muslims support 'gay rights' movement?
Born in Malaysia, the 49-year-old singer-songwriter and organization cofounder said, "the community we are building is very different from most of the mosques you would walk into.
October 24, 2011 - National Catholic Reporter
Catholic Reporter: New survey offers portrait of U.S. Catholics
Our research team has now carried out the fifth survey of American Catholics.
October 24, 2011 - National Catholic Reporter
Catholic Reporter: What is core to American Catholics in 2011
The term “cafeteria Catholic” has been used for many years to refer to the fact that Catholics tend to selectively prioritize certain aspects of Catholic theology and tradition while seeing other strands as comparatively less important to the practice of Catholicism.
October 19, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Mitt Romney takes on Mormon ‘cult’ comments and the religious test for office
It was only a few seconds, but at Tuesday night’s debate, Republican presidential hopeful (and Mormon) Mitt Romney gave some of his most extensive religious comments yet of the 2012 presidential campaign, saying, “That idea that we should choose people based on their religion is the one that I find to be most troubling.”
October 19, 2011 - NPR
NPR: U.S. Hispanics choose churches outside Catholicism
As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they're also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith.
October 19, 2011 - The Huffington Post
Huff. Post: Muslim scholars issue fatwa declaring no conflict between Islamic law and U.S. Constitution
Islamic scholars tired of conservative charges that Muslims in the United States constitute a radical fifth column bent on subverting American values and obligated by their religion to launch jihadist terror attacks are fighting back by issuing a fatwa.
October 17, 2011 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Nonbelievers striving for humanist connections
On a recent Sunday, as millions of Americans met to celebrate their belief in God, 18 people met in Harvard Square to celebrate their lack of religious conviction.
October 07, 2011 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Naperville not putting out welcome mat for Islamic religious center
For years, HOPE United Church of Christ advertised on its front lawn plans to build a church on 14 acres it owned just southwest of Naperville, and the minister there says he never heard so much as a peep of displeasure.
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