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Selected religion-related news from around the Web
Guardian: Churchgoers and activists unite to announce 'pilgrimage for justice'
Ten weeks after the tents of Occupy movement were removed from outside St Paul's cathedral, a group has been launched seeking to cement the ties between churchgoers and activists with a march from London to Canterbury demanding social justice and greater economic equality.
AP: Group of California lawmakers approve first-in-nation ban on 'conversion' therapy in key vote
A first-of-its-kind ban on a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight is speeding through the California statehouse.
Wash. Times: Georgetown catches flak for Sebelius invite
In what has become an annual tradition, another Catholic university has come under fire for its choice of commencement speaker.
Toronto Star: Canada’s pro-life movement gets a slick, youthful rebranding
They will fight to protect the unborn, raise their voices against abortion in Canada — and maybe win an iPod.
Times of India: Cong leaders pitch for reservations for Muslims
In a bid to win the confidence of the state's Muslim community, senior state and national Congress leaders participated in a two-day conference on education organized by the All India Muslim Educational Society here.
AP: Chavez’s cross: Venezuelan leader increasingly turns to Christianity during cancer struggle
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has spent much of his career praising the socialist ideas of famed atheists such as Karl Marx and Fidel Castro.
Korea Herald: Buddhist order protests state ownership of relic
The Jogye Order, Korea’s largest Buddhist sect, on Friday protested the planned donation of a missing relic to the government.
AP: Islamist attacks saint’s tomb in Timbuktu
A new member of an Islamist group in north Mali attacked and burned a saint’s tomb classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Timbuktu, the spokesman for the group said Sunday.
Boston Globe: Growing demand for spiritual directors
Natalie Weaver, a 25-year-old musician who lives in Roxbury, does not go to church.
Globe and Mail: Opinion: How competition helped fuel the Arab Spring
As we pass the first anniversary of the Arab Spring, we still have questions about these historic convulsions.
Guardian: Egypt's generals wait in the wings as battle for democracy sours
There is a narrow footbridge overlooking the entrance to the ministry of defence in the Abbasiya district of Cairo. On Friday afternoon, this crowded bridge provided the best view of the frontline in the latest round of violent clashes between the army and demonstrators who suspect the country's ruling generals of wanting to hold on to power.
LA Times: Dynamic pragmatist becomes top Islamist contender in Egypt
The stage along the sea was a politically crafted advertisement for Egypt's diversity: An unveiled woman chatted with a bearded Islamist and a retired soccer star shared the spotlight with a young hero from last year's revolution.
Daily Star: Christians, Muslims affirm common values
Muslims and Christian leaders from across the Middle East and Denmark wrapped up a three-day conference on religious understanding Thursday in Beirut by highlighting values, such as mercy, respect and caring for the weak, which both faiths share.
National Post: Whipping boy
In the summer of 2011, a horrendous mass murder occurred in Norway, with more than 90 people, most of them teenagers and even children, being slaughtered in a co-ordinated bomb and gun attack.
LA Times: Russian gay activist fined for promoting homosexuality
The founder of the Moscow gay pride movement was convicted Friday of promoting homosexuality and fined $167 in the first prosecution under a controversial new St. Petersburg municipal law that human rights activists have denounced as homophobic.
AP: Trial postponed for fugitive Iraqi VP
The terror trial of Iraq's fugitive Sunni vice president was postponed Thursday as his lawyers appealed to have parliament create a special court to hear the case that has touched off a political crisis and could deepen the nation's sectarian divide.
Australian: Senator caught in Muslim slur row
A MALAYSIAN newspaper has quoted independent senator Nick Xenophon as declaring Islam is a "criminal organisation", after it misreported excerpts of a parliamentary speech in which the South Australian MP attacked the Church of Scientology.
AP: Billy Graham backs NC anti-gay marriage amendment
The Rev. Billy Graham urged North Carolina voters Wednesday to support an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, a move that an observer said was highly unusual but another said was in keeping with the minister's moral beliefs.
Tennessean: Foes of Vanderbilt's nondiscrimination policy point to Harvard
When Vanderbilt wanted its freshmen students to learn about ethics, the school turned to the late Rev. Peter Gomes to teach them. Gomes’ book, The Good Life, was required reading for the Vanderbilt class of 2015.
Guardian: Indonesia's atheists face battle for religious freedom
When Alex Aan picked up a copy of Karen Armstrong's Holy War from his local library in west Sumatra in 2005, he had little inkling of his own religious battle to come.
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