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May 23, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities.
May 22, 2013 - The Times of India
Times of India: Anti-Muslim sentiments on rise in UK: British minister
Britain's first ever minister for faith Sayeeda Warsi told TOI in an exclusive interview that "UK is witnessing a rising level of anti-Muslim sentiments" with hate crimes increasing by the day.
May 22, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Brotherhood's Egypt, blasphemy charges against Christians surge ahead
A blasphemy trial against a Christian teacher in this Egyptian city renowned for its Pharaonic monuments is among a wave of cases that have Egyptian Christians worried they can be jailed for insulting Islam on the flimsiest of evidence.
May 22, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philly Inquirer: Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of infant
Catherine and Herbert Schaible, the Philadelphia faith-healing couple convicted once of manslaughter for allowing their sick toddler to die, were charged Wednesday with third-degree murder in the death of another son, infant Brandon.
May 21, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: A founder of the revolution is barred from office, shocking Iranians
The decision on Tuesday to bar the presidential candidacy of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a founding father of the revolution and a former president, shocked Iranians, particularly among the 70 percent of the population that is under 35 and grew up when he served in many leading positions.
May 20, 2013 - Deseret News
Deseret News: Muslim leaders in U.S. facing challenges inside and outside the faith
Soon after two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on April 15, Muslim groups joined others in denouncing the deadly violence.
May 20, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Myanmar, a movement for Muslim and Buddhist tolerance
Days after communal violence rocked central Myanmar in late March, leaving more than 40 people dead and raising tensions in the mostly Buddhist country, a group of Muslims and a group of Buddhists decided enough was enough.
May 18, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: Turkey's political imams: The Gulenists fight back
In a recent sermon Fethullah Gulen, Turkey’s most powerful Muslim cleric, preached against hubris. Delivered in rural Pennsylvania, where Mr Gulen lives in self-imposed exile, it was broadcast from his website with an electrifying effect. Was the holy man alluding to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister?
May 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope decries more concern over banks than people; leads Vatican rally, meets with Merkel
Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church’s moral conscience, hours after he held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with Germany’s leader.
May 17, 2013 - The Times of London
The Times: Britain is losing its faith in church, census shows
The number of British-born Christians is falling steeply while a youthful Muslim population is on the rise, according to census figures published yesterday.
May 17, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Pentecostals praise God in ‘language of angels’
Pastor Ronald Rice is pacing and sweating, roaring and crying as he warns his west Salt Lake City Pentecostal congregation about what he calls the "dangers of drifting."
May 17, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Seminary graduates not always ministering from the pulpit
Alethea Allen, a Virginia resident, graduated this week from Wesley Theological Seminary in Northwest Washington after years of divinity classes. But she has no intention of becoming a minister.
May 14, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary
When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel.
May 13, 2013 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Missionaries urge Korea to lift travel ban
Kim Jin-dae hoped he could persuade the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lift its ban on travel to countries it deemed as too dangerous for Korean passport holders, but he knew better.
May 13, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Africa, Asia See Boom in Priests as Europe Withers
The number of Catholic priests in Africa and Asia has shot up over the past decade while decreasing in Europe, mirroring trends in the numbers of Catholic faithful that helped lead to the election of Pope Francis as the first non-European pope in over a millennium.
May 08, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Islamists rely on TV sheiks to woo the masses in Egypt
Secular youth used Facebook and Twitter two years ago to help topple President Hosni Mubarak from power, but now Salafi Islamists are gaining sway in Egypt because of TV sheiks like Khaled Abdullah.
May 08, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Is there a God? The Vatican invites Mexicans to discuss.
A Vatican envoy has arrived in Mexico with a message: God is not dead.
May 07, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: France struggles to fight radical Islam in its jails
In France, the path to radical Islam often begins with a minor offence that throws a young man into an overcrowded, violent jail and produces a hardened convert ready for jihad.
May 06, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Iran warns Syrian rebels after report of shrine desecration
Iran’s Shiite leaders warned of regional sectarian conflict after reports that Syrian rebels raided a Shiite shrine in a suburb of Damascus last week, destroying the site and making off with the remains of the revered Shiite figure buried there.
May 06, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Anti-blasphemy protests in Bangladesh turn violent
Violence erupted across Bangladesh on Monday as Islamist fundamentalists demanding passage of an anti-blasphemy law clashed with security forces, leaving a trail of property damage and at least 22 people dead after a second day of unrest.
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