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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.
January 02, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: At least 50 killed in ethnic clashes in Nigeria
Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria’s Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman has said, and according to police, mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.
January 02, 2012 - The Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle: Catholic leader sees possibility of healing an ancient rift
The Houston priest appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to lead what amounts to a nationwide diocese for Anglican converts to Catholicism said Monday that the new Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter represents a momentous step toward healing the rift between the Vatican and the Anglican church.
January 02, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Israel's ultra-orthodox problem
Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment.
January 01, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews dress up as concentration camp victims in protest, drawing sharp criticism
Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism inside Israel’s insular ultra-Orthodox community.
January 01, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Moderate Islamist party pulls out of Algerian government coalition ahead of April election
A moderate Islamist party pulled out of Algeria’s governing coalition on Sunday, saying that 2012 is the year of competition — not alliances.
January 01, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope Benedict XVI: ‘Young people’ need to be ‘builders of peace’
Pope Benedict XVI in his New Year’s homily Sunday praised young people as key to securing a future of hope despite what he called “shadows on the horizon of today’s world.”
December 31, 2011 - The Economist
The Economist: In the beginning were the words
Religions invite stereotypes, holy texts even more so. Non-Muslims often see Islam as a faith followed by people who hew so closely to an unchanging set of words that they ignore awkward new facts sooner than contradict its message.
December 30, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: The surprising success of the Confession app
When they launched their first Roman Catholic mobile phone application early this year, the founders of the Indiana-based startup Little i Apps had hoped their product would reach a small, niche market of fellow Catholics.
December 29, 2011 - Reuters
Reuters: Iowa's evangelicals moving to Santorum
Signs that Rick Santorum is suddenly a contender in the race for the Republican nomination for president were all over Iowa on Thursday.
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