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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.
March 19, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Lebanon’s religious leaders to hold summit on uprisings
Lebanon’s top Muslim and Christian religious leaders will meet in a spiritual summit at the weekend to discuss fast-moving developments in the region, media reports said Sunday.
March 19, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The Pope's Cuba gamble
With only a week to go until Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to make the second papal visit to Cuba in 14 years, joyful anticipation ought to be buoying the island's Christians.
March 19, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Rabbi, three children shot dead outside Jewish school in France
France was plunged into mourning and national outrage Monday by the terrorist-style killings of three young children and a rabbi as they gathered for classes at a Jewish school in a quiet residential neighborhood of Toulouse.
March 19, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Supreme Court refuses church-state case involving child sex abuse by clergy
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case challenging the use of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state as a shield to block a negligence lawsuit against a Roman Catholic archdiocese that hired and supervised a priest accused of being a pedophile.
March 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Supreme Court stays out of dispute over Christian campus groups' challenge to Calif. policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a request by Christian groups on a college campus to allow them to limit membership based on religious beliefs.
March 19, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Rick Santorum has embraced Spanish priest behind devout Catholic group Opus Dei
In January 2002, prominent Catholics from around the world gathered in Rome to celebrate the Spanish priest who founded one of the church's most conservative and devout groups, Opus Dei.
March 19, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Cardinal Dolan's contraception fight with Obama
Just inside the heavy front door of the 19th-century neo-Gothic mansion at 452 Madison Avenue, the official residence of Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, rests a telling clue about the resident’s personality.
March 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: On maiden visit to Cuba and Mexico, Pope Benedict can't escape predecessor's outsize shadow
For his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the region's most Roman Catholic country -- and its least.
March 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Butchers beef up French Presidential campaign
The French butcher who cuts and tresses your meat with care, and serves as city dwellers' link to the land, is falling on hard times, unable to find new blood to keep his iconic image alive — as supermarkets and Arab butchers selling halal meat at cheaper prices thrive.
March 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Egyptians pay final respects to their Pope
Tens of thousands of Coptic Christians lined up outside a cathedral in the Egyptian capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to the spiritual leader of their ancient church, whose body was seated inside on an ornate throne.
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