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April 15, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Fight against death penalty gains momentum in states
The fight against the death penalty is gaining momentum, opponents of the practice say, with Connecticut's decision this month to abolish capital punishment making it the fifth state in five years to so do.
April 12, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Families of murder victims played key role in Connecticut’s path to repealing death penalty
The vote to repeal Connecticut's death penalty brought a moment of triumph for Elizabeth Brancato, a lifelong opponent of capital punishment despite the murder of her mother in 1979.
April 11, 2012 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer: Passion for social issues may have doomed Santorum
Most presidential candidates would have brushed aside the young woman's challenge, perhaps mumbling something polite about agreeing to disagree.
April 11, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Gov. Haslam allows evolution bill to become TN law
A bill that encourages classroom debate over evolution will become law in Tennessee, despite a veto campaign mounted by scientists and civil libertarians who say it will reopen a decades-old controversy over teaching creationism to the state’s schoolchildren.
April 11, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: School vouchers gain ground
Louisiana is poised to establish the nation's most expansive system of school choice by adopting a package of vouchers and other tools that would give many parents control over the use of tax dollars to educate their children.
April 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Santorum out, evangelicals edge closer to Romney, but warily
Rick Santorum had been the last best hope of Christian conservatives who opposed Mitt Romney, derided by many as a “Massachusetts moderate.”
April 10, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Oklahoma, weighing 'personhood' law, may be next US abortion flashpoint
A proposed law in Oklahoma that would grant embryos full rights as people from the moment of conception may represent the next big challenge to the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
April 10, 2012 - The Boston Herald
Boston Herald: Barack Obama faces pressure over same-sex marriage
President Barack Obama, who has fended off questions about his position on same-sex marriage for nearly a year and a half by saying his views are  "evolving," faces increasing pressure within his party as momentum builds to declare support for marriage equality in the party’s official platform.
April 08, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: As states OK school vouchers, fight over public dollars for private education turns to courts
Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.
April 08, 2012 - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Times Free Press: Southern Baptists seek fairness in national immigration debate
Twice before, the Southern Baptist Convention has called for the federal government to do something about illegal immigration.
April 08, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Seeking to clear a path between yoga and Islam
As a community activist in Queens, Muhammad Rashid has fought for the rights of immigrants held in detention, sought the preservation of local movie theaters and held a street fair to promote diversity.
April 07, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Obama praised – and pummeled – on matters of faith
President Obama stood before an audience of distinguished Christian clergy and lay leaders and took on the mantle of pastor in chief.
April 06, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Cuban dissenters find a niche in church
Last year, as Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro took to his state-run newspaper Granma to defend the dictator as a revolutionary hero.
April 05, 2012 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: 'Personhood' becomes ground for debate in Naperville
When Katie O'Connor and her husband thought about having a child through in vitro fertilization two years ago, they knew that the technique — which often results in the destruction of surplus embryos — went against the teachings of the Catholic Church in which they had been raised.
April 05, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Richard Land's rant on Trayvon Martin case stings some Southern Baptists
The Southern Baptist Convention has spent more than a decade trying to leave behind the racially divided past that created it.
April 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Catholic fund cuts off aid over groups’ affiliations
For three years now, Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws.
April 05, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Outremont Easter procession cancelled due to district’s conflict with Hasidic Jews
The half-century-old Easter procession at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Montreal’s Outremont district has been cancelled, caught in the crosswinds of a conflict over faith and public space.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Romney finally puts it all together
For the first time in a competitive primary, Mitt Romney won some elusive demographics.
April 03, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Massachusetts leads fight on right to marry
Massachusetts will once again take center stage in the national debate over same-sex marriage as the state becomes the first to go before a United States appeals court to challenge a federal law that defines marriage as a union only of a man and a woman.
April 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Clergy group to air ad against AL immigration law
Ahead of Easter and Passover, faith leaders across Alabama have asked state lawmakers to hear "the cries of their people", reflect and revise what they deem the toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.
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