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May 04, 2012 - The Daily Star
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.
May 01, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Bill proposes full legal status for humanist weddings
THE GOVERNMENT is expected to agree today to back legislation giving humanists the same status as organised religions and civil registrars in conducting marriage ceremonies.
April 30, 2012 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Reform Judaism focuses on youth
Rabbi Jonah Pesner, who helped to lead a grass-roots revolution in the Union for Reform Judaism, visited Pittsburgh last week promoting plans to engage young families in synagogue life.
April 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Sikh group launches phone app to report unfair airport screeners, 2 complaints already made
A Sikh advocacy group has launched a free mobile application that allows travellers to complain immediately to the government about unfair treatment by airport security screeners.
April 28, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Montague and Capulet as Shiite and Sunni
It is not poison or a dagger that takes the lives of the young lovers, but a suicide bomb.
April 27, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: With prison ministry, Colson linked religion and reform
“Since the 1960s, prison reform has been seen as a leftist cause,” Robert Perkinson, a historian and the author of “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire,” said this week.
April 23, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: ‘Islam is calling for peace’
Islamic culture is not calling for violence, said Abdulla Al-Mulla, Director of the Qatar Islamic Cultural Center.
April 23, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Russians show support for Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill
Tens of thousands of people came to the square in front of a Moscow cathedral Sunday in a show of support for the Russian Orthodox Church, which is facing criticism for its close ties to the Kremlin and the wealth of its leaders.
April 23, 2012 - NPR
NPR: Vatican reprimand of U.S. nuns divides faithful
The Vatican reprimanded America's largest organization of Catholic nuns, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.
April 22, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Russian Orthodox Church is in spiritual crisis, critics say
His unruly mane of white hair giving him the look of Moses, Father Georgy Edelstein struggled over the grayish snow that is the late-spring landscape of this barren village, heading to his church for Good Friday services.
April 19, 2012 - National Post
National Post: Presbyterians to probe maternity homes in wake of Post forced adoption revelations
The Presbyterian Church in Canada has launched an internal review of its historic maternity home practices, becoming the third church to do so since the National Post last month began an investigation into coerced and forced adoptions targeting unmarried mothers between the 1940s and 1980s.
April 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Top Egyptian Islamic cleric visits Jerusalem
A top Egyptian Islamic cleric paid a rare visit to Jerusalem Wednesday, breaking with decades of opposition by Muslim leaders on traveling to areas under Israeli control.
April 18, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Vatican reprimands a group of U.S. nuns and plans changes
The Vatican has appointed an American bishop to rein in the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States, saying that an investigation found that the group had “serious doctrinal problems.”
April 17, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Projecting the Catholic Church as an all-male community is wrong
The 2012 Dublin International Eucharistic Congress has commissioned four icons to reflect the theme of the congress: communion with Christ and with one another.
April 16, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Thailand’s Buddhists take up arms against insurgency
A few hours’ drive from the white-sand beaches of Phuket—one of the world’s top tourist destinations—a deadly insurgency is terrorizing Thailand’s south.
April 15, 2012 - The Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Orthodox Christians take steps toward unity
As Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter today, they have resurrected a movement toward unity in America, where they are divided into a hodgepodge of overlapping ethnic jurisdictions.
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 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 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 01, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Despite papal visits, ministering to Cuba's Catholics still difficult
After two papal visits, the Roman Catholic Church enjoys growing support from long-suffering Cubans yet support from the Communist Party that rules this island nation can be described as reluctant at best.
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