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November 01, 2012 - Religion News Service
RNS: Hawaii Democrat poised to be first Hindu in Congress
Hindu Americans have run America’s major companies and universities, won Nobel prizes and Olympic gold medals, directed blockbuster movies, and even flown into space. But one profession has so far been out of reach: Member of Congress.
October 28, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Mormon church is conspicuously absent in Md. same-sex marriage referendum
Maryland activists working to overturn same-sex marriage have had to get used to one surprising absence from their religious coalition: Mormons.
October 26, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Vatican synod warns of 'eclipse' of faith in rich countries
The Roman Catholic faith in many advanced countries risks being "eclipsed" by an increasingly secularised and materialistic world, bishops who discussed strategies on how to woo lapsed faithful back to the fold said on Friday.
October 25, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Jerusalem's secular Israeli minority showing life
Hundreds of people packed a Jerusalem community center recently for what many in Jerusalem consider a subversive act: They attended a lecture on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath.
October 25, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Most French see Islam too influential in society: poll
An increasing majority of people in France believe Islam plays too influential a role in their society and almost half see Muslims as a threat to their national identity, according to a poll published on Thursday.
October 17, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Catholicism and sex shops: the struggle for Poland’s soul
At the sound of a bell from the altar, relayed over loud-speakers, about 50,000 people at an open-air mass last month in the Polish capital dropped down to kneel in the street.
October 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Islam making inroads in Haiti since devastating 2010 earthquake
School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country.
October 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: 10 years after Bali bombings, local militants still pose threat
Ansyaad Mbai, the director of Indonesia’s National Counterterrorism Agency, has a genealogy of terrorism spread across his office wall.
October 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mitt Romney meets with Rev. Billy Graham
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney met Thursday with Rev. Billy Graham, and the aging evangelist pledged to do "all I can" to help the GOP nominee win the presidency.
October 10, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Moderate Islamic preachers gain followers in Indonesia
When protests against the low-budget, anti-Islam "Innocence of Muslims" video flared across the Islamic world last month, Indonesia's Habib Munzir Almusawa preached a different message to his tens of thousands of followers in Jakarta: Just ignore it.
October 10, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Tunisian university becomes front in religious battles
The serene university in this Tunis suburb hardly looked like a tinderbox of religious strife on a recent sunny morning.
October 09, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Evangelical leaders urge support for Romney
Evangelical leaders worried that Mitt Romney's Mormonism could suppress conservative turnout on Election Day are intensifying appeals for Christians to vote.
October 09, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LAT: Biden-Ryan debate highlights nation's Catholic political divide
Dr. Jack Dolehide remembers the trinity on display in his boyhood home in Chicago in the 1960s: There, in the center, was an iconic image of Jesus. On one side, Mayor Richard J. Daley, the city's legendary Democratic boss. On the other, President Kennedy.
October 08, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In Missouri, clergy in the fray of Akin race, seeing it as start of a ‘battle for the soul’ of GOP
Nearly 400 Missouri pastors gathered at the podium of a hotel ballroom recently to pray over the kneeling figure of Rep. Todd Akin, a Senate candidate whose campaign had been pronounced dead by national Republican leaders weeks before.
October 08, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Radicalism prompts warnings in France
Jewish and Muslim leaders here warned on Monday of rising anti-Semitism among young Muslims, two days after the police arrested 11 men and fatally shot one in raids in a handful of cities aimed at young radical French Muslims.
October 07, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Hundreds of pastors back political candidates, defy tax rules
Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.
October 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: German Catholic Church links tax to the sacraments
It is a paradox of modern Germany that church and state remain so intimately tied.
October 01, 2012 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Daystar, TBN ready for Messiah in Jerusalem
If the Messiah descends from the Mount of Olives as foretold in the Bible, America's two biggest Christian broadcasters are well-positioned to cover it live thanks to recent acquisitions of adjacent Jerusalem studios on a hill overlooking the Old City.
September 28, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy
The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics.
September 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Uruguay lawmakers narrowly approve legalizing abortion, ground-breaking step in Latin America
Legislators have voted in Uruguay by a razor-thin margin to legalize abortion.
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