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July 04, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Malaysia PM to meet pope, plans diplomatic links
Malaysia's prime minister plans to meet Pope Benedict XVI this month as part of efforts to establish diplomatic ties with the Vatican, a government official said Monday.
July 01, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Dalai Lama calls Chinese insistence on picking his religious successor ‘a disgrace’
The Dalai Lama said Friday that China’s Communist leadership can play no role in deciding who succeeds him as the leader of Tibetan Buddhism upon his death and called Beijing’s meddling in the issue “a disgrace.”
June 29, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Malaysia state mulls rewarding good polygamous men
A Malaysian state governed by a conservative Islamic party plans to reward "good" Muslim men who declare their polygamous marriages and are able to take proper care of their multiple households, an official said Wednesday.
June 26, 2011 - The Guardian
Guardian: Opinion: Aung San Suu Kyi's idea of freedom offers a radical message for the west
On the wall by my desk, there's a spread of photos of Aung San Suu Kyi which appeared in the Guardian a year ago.
June 24, 2011 - Reuters
Reuters: Preaching good sex, Obedient Wives Club spreads word across Asia
Indonesian Gina Puspita traded a career in aircraft engineering for a mission to preach Islam and help young women build happy marriages through good sex.
June 23, 2011 - The Economist
Economist: Under attack: The jailing of a jihadist leader still leaves plenty to worry about
The ordeal of a 22-year-old female Pentecostal trainee-pastor began on the evening of June 9th in Situbondo, a town in east Java.
June 23, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: New China-Vatican row brewing over bishops
China's state-controlled Catholic church says it will move swiftly to appoint new bishops in dioceses where there are none, in a step that is certain to worsen tensions with the Vatican.
June 21, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Bangladesh moves to retain Islam as state religion
Bangladesh will retain Islam as the state religion in amendments the government is proposing to its constitution, a government minister said Tuesday.
June 19, 2011 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Answered prayers: Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is redrawing the Constitution. Why the devout Muslim is good for the Christians.
As a teenager growing up in a tough Istanbul neighborhood, Recep Tayyip Erdogan studied to be an Islamic cleric.
June 14, 2011 - The Straits Times
Straits Times: Citizen unity amid Singapore's diversity
These days, religious diversity is the new order in many places. Brought about mainly by globalisation, it is a phenomenon that seems at once comforting, complicating and compelling.
June 06, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Radical Indonesia cleric rejects terrorism charges
A radical Indonesian cleric facing life in prison on terrorism charges professed his innocence Monday and rejected the trial as outside Islamic law in a final court appearance before judges announce a verdict.
May 28, 2011 - The Australian
Australian: New wave of conservatism as migrants bolster Catholic Church
IN 2003, religious writer Chris McGillion authored a book on the Australian Catholic Church called A Long Way from Rome in which he argued that while the church in Australia had changed radically, Rome had not.
May 24, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: A god is dead, but it’s business that may suffer most
His face adorns the yellow motorized rickshaws zipping down the streets. Billboards bear his simple motto, “Love All, Serve All.”
May 23, 2011 - The Weekly Standard
Weekly Standard: The crackdown continues: The ongoing persecution of Christians in China.
Communist China has earned praise in the past few years for a perceived thaw in its strict opposition to religious observance—particularly Christianity.
May 20, 2011 - Straits Times Indonesia
Straits Times: Hundreds of Indonesian clerics to fight radicalism
Indonesia's largest Islamic organization is enlisting hundreds of religious teachers to fight the spread of radicalism in high schools and universities.
May 18, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Battle over condoms enters Philippine Congress
The president says he is ready to face excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church for advocating free access to condoms.
May 18, 2011 - The Australian
The Australian: Goodbye to rights under sharia
Civil libertarian Spencer Zifcak and constitutional monarchist David Flint are from opposing sides of the political spectrum. But they are united by a deceptively reasonable push for a form of sharia law in Australia.
May 16, 2011 - Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times: A skewed secularism?
In contrast to most south Asian countries, modern India has always been officially "secular", a word the country inscribed in its Constitution in 1976.
May 09, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Fresh religious tensions brewing in Malaysia
Malaysia's government sought to defuse new religious tensions Monday following allegations that church leaders were conspiring to make Christianity the official religion in this Muslim-majority country.
May 09, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: India's Supreme Court suspends ruling on disputed Ayodhya holy site
India’s highest court Monday suspended a historic verdict that had sought to end controversy over one of the most hotly disputed religious sites in the world.
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