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March 22, 2012 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: US panel on religious freedom reports Cuban violations
A week before Pope Benedict XVI visits Cuba, a U.S. government panel on religious freedom has alleged “serious” violations on the island, including arrests of pastors and “pressure to prohibit democracy and human rights activists” from church activities.
March 22, 2012 - Religion News Service
RNS: Anti-Shariah movement loses steam in state legislatures
At this point in 2011, 22 state legislatures had either passed or were considering bills to prohibit judges from considering either Islamic law, known as Shariah, or foreign law in their decisions.
March 22, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Allegations of opulence refocus attention on TBN, world's largest Christian broadcaster
Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have faced plenty of mountains building their religious broadcast empire — among them allegations of a homosexual tryst and a prolonged battle with the Federal Communications Commission — but the most recent attack on the founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network comes from their own flesh and blood.
March 22, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Immigration, marriage laws leave same-sex couples in limbo
Love may cross oceans and borders, but tens of thousands of same-sex couples in the United States live under the threat of separation because federal law prohibits immigration authorities from treating them the same as married opposite-sex couples.
March 22, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Immigration issues touch many denominations
The Bible tells its readers to obey the law, but it also tells them to welcome strangers and foreigners.
March 22, 2012 - The Moscow Times
Moscow Times: Madonna vows to defy anti-gay law at St. Petersburg concert
Wherever Madonna goes, controversy follows.
March 22, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy Newspapers: In macho Mexico, a woman aims for the presidency
In a society that clings to macho ways, Mexican voters find themselves for the first time mulling a field of presidential candidates that includes a woman.
March 21, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Horrific anti-China protests become Tibet's norm
For more than a year the deadly protests have swept the Tibetan plateau, waves of people burning themselves alive in a widening challenge to Chinese rule.
March 21, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Md. Senate panel considers abortion-reporting bill
Proponents of a bill to require hospitals and abortion providers to report the number of pregnancies they terminate argue the measure would improve women’s health care.
March 21, 2012 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: Evangelical states sketchy for Romney
Mitt Romney’s lopsided victory in Illinois this week showed again that he’s hard to beat in states with more moderate, less evangelical-minded voters — a good sign for the former Massachusetts governor when that describes most of the big prizes left on the Republican primary schedule.
March 20, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Expat atheists, like believers, seek fellowship
Non-believers tend to agree that losing one’s religion is a long process, not an overnight event.
March 20, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Sharia widespread in local community
A LAWYER has revealed he has prepared more than 1000 wills for Australian Muslims using Islamic law, while other lawyers and Muslim leaders say sharia is used informally by most of the Islamic community.
March 20, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Human Rights Watch alleges serious abuses by some Syrian rebel soldiers
Even as Syria’s security forces have tortured and massacred civilians and anti-government activists, armed members of the Syrian opposition have carried out “serious human rights abuses” against Syrian soldiers and some civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
March 20, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Dutch church is accused of castrating young men
A young man in the care of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands was surgically castrated decades ago after complaining about sexual abuse, according to new evidence that only adds to the scandal engulfing the church there.
March 20, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Albany boosts private schools
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have proposed increasing public funding for religious and private schools, potentially reversing years of cuts and handing the Roman Catholic Church a political victory.
March 20, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Violent rampages during culture war set to shift French politics
It is as if France has been frozen in horror, its institutions paralyzed, its politics halted, its leaders unable to respond.
March 19, 2012 - The Weekly Standard
Weekly Standard: Deadly Diversity
In Nigeria, thousands of people have been killed in recent months, and tens of thousands in the last decade.
March 19, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Pope Shenouda III
As the pope of the largest and oldest Christian community in the Middle East, Shenouda III belonged to a Coptic tradition that can be traced back to when St Mark introduced Christianity to Egypt in the 1st century AD.
March 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Rick Santorum courts conservative Christians as evangelicals embrace him
When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candidate, he had a simple message: Rick Santorum is one of us, and your parishioners should vote for him.
March 19, 2012 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: Many hope Pope Benedict will address tough issues in Cuba
For centuries, pilgrims have come to the Our Lady of Charity shrine with wishes for a cure for ill health, a better economy, and improved relationships.
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