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January 24, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Look forward to the death of organized religion: Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins - scientist, bestselling author and the world's foremost atheist- comes across as mild-mannered and genial but doesn't believe in pulling his punches.
January 24, 2012 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Mormon church skips pre-session meeting with lawmakers
For the first time in decades, legislative leaders didn’t hold their annual pre-session meeting with LDS Church officials, but the reason for the change in the practice is unclear.
January 23, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Dean criticises Catholic Church's 'lack of ecumenism'
The demoralised state of the Catholic Church in Ireland “may have something to do with its lack of ecumenism”, the Very Rev Robert MacCarthy (71), Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, has said.
January 23, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In police training, a dark film on U.S. Muslims
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a  doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.
January 23, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Car designers to craft 'green' popemobile
Pope Benedict XVI's popemobile may be getting an ecological upgrade.
January 22, 2012 - Richmond Times-Dispatch
Times-Dispatch: Sikh city planner becomes Charlottesville mayor
A longtime city planner has become the mayor of Charlottesville.
January 19, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Presbyterian group breaks away over gay clergy
Presbyterians opposed to gay clergy split from the church on Thursday, announcing in Orlando a new denomination called the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians.
January 19, 2012 - The National Post
National Post: Opinion: Even atheists should read the Bible
Religious extremists often frighten me, offend me, disgust me. But in terms of provoking irritation, none compare to the militantly godless.
January 18, 2012 - The State
The State: S.C. evangelicals divided, frustrated
More than two-thirds of South Carolina’s evangelical voters do not want Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney to become the GOP’s nominee for president, according to a new poll from Monmouth University.
January 16, 2012 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Beliefs of Mormon religion becoming an inescapable issue
The Rev. R. Philip Roberts, the president of a Southern Baptist seminary in Kansas City, Mo., is an evangelist with a particular goal: countering Mormon beliefs.
January 15, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: More US Catholics using church legal system to challenge bishops; outgrowth of abuse scandal
Parents upset by the admission policy at a parochial school.
January 13, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Congress’s chaplains try to instill civility in a quarrelsome flock
The Rev. Patrick J. Conroy invited all the members of the House of Representatives and their families to the holiday reception he was hosting last month as the chamber’s chaplain.
January 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: The price of communism: Czech churches to get $6.6 billion in compensation
Churches were seized, priests jailed or even executed and those allowed to lead religious services did so under the watchful eye of the secret police
January 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Appeals court upholds federal block of Oklahoma ban on Islamic law
A proposed constitutional amendment that would ban Oklahoma courts from considering international or Islamic law discriminates against religions, and a Muslim community leader has the right to challenge its constitutionality, a federal appeals court said yesterday.
January 09, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Millions of Filipino Catholics join mammoth procession despite president’s terror warning
Millions of Roman Catholic devotees paraded with a statue of Christ through the Philippine capital under a massive police cordon Monday after the president warned that terrorists might target the raucous annual procession.
January 09, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Mormon church’s plans for land upset Harlem
The wider world does not often glimpse the internal disputes of the Mormon Church.
January 06, 2012 - The Toronto Star
The Star: An Ethiopian Christmas
The scene felt like it was straight out of a fairytale book from other lands.
January 06, 2012 - Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
Journal Sentinel: Dolan’s elevation to cardinal continues his rise
Friday's announcement that New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan will be elevated to cardinal in February reflects his growing prominence in the American Catholic Church, and near meteoric rise since leaving the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in 2009.
January 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Zimbabwe police stop Anglican prayer retreat under security laws, order 80 clerics to disperse
Zimbabwean police stopped a retreat of 80 clergy over claims that their prayer gathering was not given police clearance under sweeping security laws, the country’s mainstream Anglican church said Tuesday.
January 02, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Baird defends Office of Religious Freedom from skeptics
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says his department’s new Office of Religious Freedom won’t become a vehicle for playing domestic politics in Canada’s immigrant communities.
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