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March 06, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Minn. school district settles bullying lawsuits
Minnesota's largest school district on Monday voted to settle a pair of lawsuits over a policy that was criticized for failing to protect gay students  from bullying.
March 06, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Turkey is seeking to reassure its non-Muslim citizens
After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities.
March 06, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Uproar over Catholic cardinal's comments on radio opposing gay marriage
RADIO 4’S Today programme was once described as the British at prayer. Within minutes of Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s appearance on yesterday‘s programme, speaking about gay marriage, much of the congregation was in uproar.
March 06, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Norway’s indigenous Sami people turn to Israel for help in reviving old tribal language
Norway’s Sami people, an indigenous community with roots as reindeer herders in the northern reaches of Scandinavia and Russia, are looking south to Israel for help preserving their fading native language.
March 06, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Syrian Christians worry about life after Bashar Assad
For 40 years, Um Michael has found comfort and serenity amid the soaring pillars and ancient icons of St. Mary's Greek Orthodox cathedral.
March 06, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In France, halal meat drama enters election campaign
In a bitterly divisive presidential election campaign, France is once again torn by an uncomfortable struggle over the place of Muslims in a society pledged to secularism but deeply rooted in Christianity.
March 05, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Suit to test protections of religious employers
A former Metro Council member’s lawsuit against the nation’s largest Protestant denomination has been transferred to federal court, where it is poised to test both the limits on religious institutions’ immunity from employee lawsuits and the breadth of the new Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
March 05, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Muslims rally in support of NYPD surveillance tactics, say police ‘not trying to hurt us’
Qazi Qayyoom, an imam in Queens, says he believes the New York Police Department is keeping his community safe, and if that means some Muslims are monitored, so be it.
March 05, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Ethiopians trade holy water for AIDS drugs
Cast out from her family, Tigist arrived at Ethiopia's Entoto Mountain believing that a spring here welled with holy water that would rid her body of HIV.
March 04, 2012 - Religion News Service
RNS: Effort made to change conceptions of Shariah
Against a backdrop of heartland fears that U.S. Muslims seek to impose Islamic law on American courts, a leading Muslim group will launch a campaign on Monday to dispel what it called misconceptions about Shariah.
March 04, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Cuban Santeros, ignored by John Paul II in 1998, cool to Benedict XVI as his visit nears
They cast snail shells to read their fortunes, proudly wear colorful necklaces to ward off illness, dress all in white and dance in "bata" drum ceremonies.
March 04, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Anger and compassion for Arab justice who stays silent during zionist hymn
It was supposed to be a passing of the torch, yet another solemn state ceremony at the president’s residence in Jerusalem.
March 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: For Egypt’s women, equality will take a second revolution
A year ago, on International Women’s Day, a few hundred Egyptian women paraded through Cairo’s Tahrir Square only to be booed, spat on and jostled by several dozen men.
March 04, 2012 - South China Morning Post
Morning Post: Bigger CPPCC role on stability
The Communist Party's fourth most powerful figure, the chief of the government's advisory body, has called on other advisers to play a bigger role in religious and ethnic affairs in order to help resolve conflicts during a politically sensitive year....
March 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: NJ Muslims, officials discuss NYPD surveillance
New Jersey's attorney general told Muslim leaders Saturday that he was still looking into the extent of New York Police Department surveillance operations in the state, yet stopped short of promising a formal investigation during a meeting that both sides characterized as productive.
March 03, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: From ‘nominal Catholic’ to clarion of faith
Rick Santorum was, in his own words, a “nominal Catholic” when he met Karen Garver, a neonatal nurse and law student, in 1988. As they made plans to marry and he decided to enter politics, she sent him to her father for advice.
March 03, 2012 - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Post-Dispatch: Archdiocese defends firing of gay St. Louis County teacher
After a teacher at St. Ann Catholic School in Normandy had been fired in February for planning to marry his male partner in New York later this month, officials with the Archdiocese of St. Louis pointed to a document the teacher had signed when he applied for the job.
March 03, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: At al-Azhar mosque, struggle over Islam roils a revered Egyptian institution
They came by the thousands, pouring through the ancient stone archways and into the gleaming white marble courtyard of al-Azhar mosque.
March 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Sarkozy nixes halal meat in schools for Muslims
The issue of France's Muslims moved front and center into the presidential campaign with the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, excluding on Saturday any special indulgences for halal meat or separate swimming hours for Muslim women in public pools.
March 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Florida mulls outlaw of Shariah, other foreign laws; critics say bill addresses made-up threat
A measure to ban the use of foreign laws in domestic courtrooms is progressing in Florida's statehouse, one of dozens of similar efforts across the country that critics call an unwarranted campaign driven by fear of Muslims.
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