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April 06, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Cuban dissenters find a niche in church
Last year, as Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro took to his state-run newspaper Granma to defend the dictator as a revolutionary hero.
April 05, 2012 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: 'Personhood' becomes ground for debate in Naperville
When Katie O'Connor and her husband thought about having a child through in vitro fertilization two years ago, they knew that the technique — which often results in the destruction of surplus embryos — went against the teachings of the Catholic Church in which they had been raised.
April 05, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Richard Land's rant on Trayvon Martin case stings some Southern Baptists
The Southern Baptist Convention has spent more than a decade trying to leave behind the racially divided past that created it.
April 05, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Unchristian acts distort message of Jesus Christ
THIS WEEKEND, Christians around the world will mark the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. But what has been the legacy of the man with a simple message of love and peace, who sacrificed himself for humankind more than 2,000 years ago?
April 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Catholic fund cuts off aid over groups’ affiliations
For three years now, Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws.
April 05, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Outremont Easter procession cancelled due to district’s conflict with Hasidic Jews
The half-century-old Easter procession at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Montreal’s Outremont district has been cancelled, caught in the crosswinds of a conflict over faith and public space.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Romney finally puts it all together
For the first time in a competitive primary, Mitt Romney won some elusive demographics.
April 04, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Opinion: David Cameron the Christian embraces a moderate religious patriotism
When David Cameron talks about "we Christians" at a Downing Street reception, almost the last explanation that would occur to anyone is that he is being sincere.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: The two views on India’s Narendra Modi
He is widely touted as a possible future prime minister of India, but he is a pariah in much of the Western world.
April 04, 2012 - The Moscow Times
Moscow Times: Church looks for place to put its homeless tent
Snow came down Tuesday, an unwelcome and unexpected April shower, the tail end of a harsh winter that has seemingly decided to never end — temperatures are predicted to go down to minus 7 degrees Celsius on Thursday night.
April 04, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Opinion: Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Europe
Rabbi Shneur Kesselman estimates that he has been the victim of 100 or so anti-Semitic confrontations since he arrived in the southern Swedish city of Malm in 2004.
April 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Octogenarian Islamist cleric an unlikely revolutionary
At 86 years old, ghost-like, hard of hearing and dependent on eye drops to blink, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an unlikely revolutionary.
April 03, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Hip-hop echoes of an Arab Spring
Lebanon hasn’t had much in the way of an Arab Spring.
April 03, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Massachusetts leads fight on right to marry
Massachusetts will once again take center stage in the national debate over same-sex marriage as the state becomes the first to go before a United States appeals court to challenge a federal law that defines marriage as a union only of a man and a woman.
April 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Clergy group to air ad against AL immigration law
Ahead of Easter and Passover, faith leaders across Alabama have asked state lawmakers to hear "the cries of their people", reflect and revise what they deem the toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.
April 03, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto star: Kitchen appliances help observant Jews keep kosher
A $50 kitchen appliance feature has become the answer to a millennia-old challenge for observant Jews.
April 03, 2012 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Book: Fears of anti-Mormon backlash haunt Romney aides
Mitt Romney’s aides were so worried about an anti-Mormon backlash against their candidate in Iowa that they may have missed a more immediate threat: Rick Santorum.
April 02, 2012 - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post: Minorities tested to the limit
Eltilib Saga says she is facing an uphill battle to enter university.
April 02, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: French Catholic school a refuge for Muslims
It’s the Friday before mid-term break at Tour Sainte, and there’s a giddy mood in the yard as the children file out past Stéphane Thiébaut, the school principal. “Bonnes vacances,” he calls out to the parents and teachers milling about in the spring sunshine.
April 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mali’s neighbors impose financial sanctions on the country in effort to reverse coup
The body representing West African nations on Monday imposed severe financial sanctions on Mali, after a 72-hour deadline elapsed and the soldiers that recently seized power failed to fully restore constitutional order.
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