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April 14, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: 10 presidential candidates disqualified in Egypt
Egypt’s presidential election commission on Saturday disqualified the top two Islamist contenders and the country’s former spy chief, sending shock waves through the volatile political establishment ahead of next month’s vote.
April 13, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Fertility treatment bans in Europe draw criticism
More than three decades after Britain produced the world's first test-tube baby, Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who need help having a child.
April 13, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: London ad campaign for 'gay conversion' shelved
LONDON MAYOR Boris Johnson has pulled an “offensive” Christian campaign advertising “gay conversion” which was due to appear on the city’s buses next week.
April 13, 2012 - The Guardian
The Guardian: 'Gay cure' Christian charity funded 20 MPs' interns
A Christian charity which sponsored a conference promoting the idea that gay people can be converted to heterosexuality has funded interns for an estimated 20 MPs, including some who are now ministers in the coalition government.
April 12, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: 'Islam-lite' Kosovars determined to stay secular
THE CALL to prayer drifting from the spindly minarets of Pristina’s Ottoman era mosques struggles to be heard over the din of the city.
April 12, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Opinion: Persecution against Christian minorities in the world
Recently, the human-rights activist, former Dutch politician, and Somali exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote about a global war on Christians in Muslim countries.
April 12, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Families of murder victims played key role in Connecticut’s path to repealing death penalty
The vote to repeal Connecticut's death penalty brought a moment of triumph for Elizabeth Brancato, a lifelong opponent of capital punishment despite the murder of her mother in 1979.
April 12, 2012 - The Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune: Catholic bishops call for national religious liberty campaign in parishes this summer
A panel of the nation’s Catholic bishops urged their colleagues Thursday to launch a two-week summer campaign in nearly 18,000 parishes to energize Catholics against what the bishops see as developing threats, in government policy and on college campuses, to the religious liberty of Catholics and people of other faiths.
April 12, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: The danger that Saudi Arabia will turn Syria into an Islamist hotbed
Even as a tentative ceasefire brings an uneasy calm to Syria, opposition leaders and US officials express skepticism that it will hold, particularly in the face of the Assad regime’s record of broken promises.
April 11, 2012 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer: Passion for social issues may have doomed Santorum
Most presidential candidates would have brushed aside the young woman's challenge, perhaps mumbling something polite about agreeing to disagree.
April 11, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: India puts Kashmir on table
India is willing to talk about the disputed territory of Kashmir with Pakistan as part of an effort to advance peace talks, India's top diplomat said, adding that Pakistan needs to take serious action against militants that use its soil to attack India.
April 11, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: The ‘Sinai Spring’ hasn’t altered Bedouin culture
Sinai is beautiful, blessed by wonderful beaches, high-reaching mountains, a desert that changes color with the moving sun, and natural resources aplenty.
April 11, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: Silenced priest told to reflect on situation
REDEMPTORIST PRIEST Fr Tony Flannery, who was silenced by the Vatican because of his views on contraception, celibacy and women’s ordination, has been advised by Rome to go to a monastery for a period where he would “pray and reflect” on his situation.
April 11, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Gov. Haslam allows evolution bill to become TN law
A bill that encourages classroom debate over evolution will become law in Tennessee, despite a veto campaign mounted by scientists and civil libertarians who say it will reopen a decades-old controversy over teaching creationism to the state’s schoolchildren.
April 11, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: School vouchers gain ground
Louisiana is poised to establish the nation's most expansive system of school choice by adopting a package of vouchers and other tools that would give many parents control over the use of tax dollars to educate their children.
April 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Santorum out, evangelicals edge closer to Romney, but warily
Rick Santorum had been the last best hope of Christian conservatives who opposed Mitt Romney, derided by many as a “Massachusetts moderate.”
April 11, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Coptic Christians fight for place in Egypt's political scene
Father Alfons Marzou shuffles across a complex that is home to sisters for the Catholic Missionaries of Charity, whose nuns provide medical care and food to impoverished children living amid heaps of garbage.
April 10, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: President and patriarch see eye to eye
President Michel Sleiman and Patriarch Beshara Rai’s simultaneous announcements of Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to Lebanon from Sept. 14-16 – during which he will sign the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for the Middle East – is a sign of the coordination and cooperation between the president and the patriarch.
April 10, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Oklahoma, weighing 'personhood' law, may be next US abortion flashpoint
A proposed law in Oklahoma that would grant embryos full rights as people from the moment of conception may represent the next big challenge to the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
April 10, 2012 - The Boston Herald
Boston Herald: Barack Obama faces pressure over same-sex marriage
President Barack Obama, who has fended off questions about his position on same-sex marriage for nearly a year and a half by saying his views are  "evolving," faces increasing pressure within his party as momentum builds to declare support for marriage equality in the party’s official platform.
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