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June 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Reasserting and redefining Jewish culture in Poland
sitting at a Warsaw sidewalk café with her long dreadlocks wrapped in a colorful turquoise and orange scarf — said she first learned of her Jewish roots about a decade ago.
June 05, 2012 - The Washington Post
WaPo: Proposition 8: Appeals court won’t reconsider ruling that gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional
A federal appeals court said Tuesday that it would not reconsider a ruling that struck down California’s Proposition 8 amendment banning same-sex marriage, another sign that the issue will soon move to the Supreme Court.
June 04, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Obama and Romney shun confrontation on religion
Maybe the economy is a political black hole, sucking every other issue into an impossibly dense void.
June 04, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Faith scholars who backed Obama before see weakening Democratic interest in religious voters
In 2008, Barack Obama took aim at the "pew gap," the overwhelming Republican edge among voters who regularly attend church.
June 04, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Nigeria's Boko Haram a holy war? Maybe not entirely
Nigerian Roman Catholic Archbishop John Onaiyekan, on a visit to Kenya, said the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency is as rooted in bad governance as much as in its push for Islamic sharia law.
June 04, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Hostility between Muslims and German nationalists rattles a former capital
The people who live in the trim row houses with well-tended gardens that line the streets of this spa town along the Rhine like to boast of their city's tolerance, which dates to its time as the capital of West Germany and home to dozens of foreign embassies.
June 04, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Utah is Romney’s key to West
Mitt Romney’s campaign has opened headquarters in state after state over the past year, only to shutter them weeks later after the primary race there ended.
June 03, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Lebanon, a worrying sectarian spillover from Syria
Rival Sunni and Alawite factions fought on Saturday some of the heaviest gunbattles seen in Lebanon's second largest city since the dark days of the the civil war which ended more than two decades ago.
June 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In occupied Tibetan monastery, a reason for fiery deaths
One young Tibetan monk walked down a street kicking Chinese military vehicles, then left a suicide note condemning an official ban on a religious ceremony.
June 02, 2012 - The Telegraph
Telegraph: The Shabiha: Inside Assad's death squads
The door to Dr Mousab Azzawi's clinic, on the Mediterranean coast of Syria, was always open to anyone who needed help.
June 01, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Contraception? Gay Marriage? Abortion? GOP holds fire on culture wars aims at jobs, economy
What "religious freedom" bill?
June 01, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Black pastor reaches across the Southern Baptist divide
The Rev. Fred Luter Jr. well remembers the first time he ventured from his native New Orleans to preach in Crowley, a rice-growing town in the heart of Louisiana's Cajun country.
May 31, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Muslims accuse Ethiopian government of meddling in mosques
Ethiopia's Muslims have been protesting 'state interference' in their affairs for the past six months.
May 31, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Russian Church is a strong voice opposing intervention in Syria
As the West sought to pressure the Kremlin recently to help stop the killing in Syria, diplomats from Damascus were ushered into the heart of one of Russian Orthodoxy's main shrines.
May 31, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Revered Jerusalem church comes alive at night
After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites.
May 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope breaks silence over Vatican leaks scandal, says he’s saddened but grateful for trusty aides
Pope Benedict XVI broke his silence Wednesday over the leaked documents scandal that has convulsed the Vatican, saying he was saddened by the betrayal but grateful to those aides who work faithfully and in silence to help him do his job.
May 30, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Liberia proves the power of prayer
Sometimes there is an opportunity to document that the power of God is real.
May 30, 2012 - The Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel: Are gay rights civil rights?
Shortly after President Barack Obama endorsed same-sex marriage, the NAACP reiterated its contention that gay rights -- including the right to marry -- are civil rights.
May 30, 2012 - National Post
National Post: Catholic schools’ opposition to gay clubs revives public-funding debate
The Ontario government’s decision forcing Catholic schools to host anti-bullying groups called “gay-straight alliances” has brought to the fore a deep divide between Roman Catholic teaching and secular society, even calling into question whether public funding for Catholic schools should continue.
May 29, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Romney's run evokes pride, fear in Mormons
Tourists stroll among the faithful, their conversations competing with the birds and fountains. Old couples walk hand in hand amid a steady stream of brides and grooms emerging from the massive granite temple.
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