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July 25, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Norway massacre likely to ramp up monitoring of right-wing groups
Ideological far-right fellow-travelers of Anders Behring Breivik are rushing to distance themselves from the Norwegian killer’s carefully planned murder spree – even as many of these groups defend their own often virulent anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant viewpoints as reasonable.
July 25, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Attack reignites immigration debate in divided Oslo
This is one of the most placid and pleasant capitals of Europe, but Oslo is a divided city.
July 24, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Muslims say extra security to be placed at Britain's mosques after Norway attacks
Some British mosques are boosting security after Norway's horrific massacre was traced to a man who fears Muslims are taking over Europe - an attack that exposed a failure to root out Islamophobia that has bled into the European mainstream.
July 21, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Vatican relationship at new low
Relations between Ireland and the Vatican have reached a historic low following the Taoiseach’s unprecedented attack on the Holy See’s role in covering up cases of clerical child sex abuse.
July 18, 2011 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: U.N. makes first Somalia aid airdrop after pope calls for help
The first U.N. aid delivery has been made to a rebel-held Somalia region after the rebels who hold the area lifted a ban on the operations of foreign aid agencies, according to a spokeswoman who spoke to AFP Sunday.
July 15, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Russia enacts law opposing abortion
President Dmitri A. Medvedev has signed into law the first steps intended to restrict abortion since the collapse of communism, the latest salvo in what is beginning to resemble the fierce divide over abortion in the United States.
July 12, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Why Dawkins's case against religion creaks at every joint
RICHARD DAWKINS sold himself very short indeed in Dublin recently.
July 12, 2011 - The Daily Mail
Daily Mail: At last, equality police decide Christians DO have right to follow beliefs
Christians who disagree with gay equality rules should have the freedom to follow their conscience, a watchdog ruled yesterday.
July 12, 2011 - The Guardian
Guardian: Could community relations survive a homophobic campaign?
It's late afternoon on Bethnal Green Road, in east London, and I am rushing from the tube for a meeting.
July 11, 2011 - Washington Post
Wash. Post: New study shows how terrorist activities are evolving
Jihadist terrorist activities in Europe, which far outnumber those in the United States, are now mostly run by independent local groups, though the more serious plots appear to have connections to groups in North Africa or the Middle East, according to a new Rand Corp. study.
July 05, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Putting faith in a broader vision of religion
From behind his desk in room 222 of the O’Rahilly building at University College Cork, Prof Brian Bocking hands me a framed photograph of a blue-eyed man with a shaved head, dressed in the style of a Burmese monk.
July 05, 2011 - Religion News Service
RNS: Schismatic bishop faces trial over Holocaust denial
The case of an outspoken schismatic bishop headed back to court on Monday (July 4), with lawyers for British Bishop Richard Williamson saying he shouldn't be punished for downplaying the severity of the Holocaust.
July 01, 2011 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Bishops review approach to gay relationships and gay priests
The Church of England has said it is reviewing its approach to same-sex relationships and whether gay priests in civil partnerships should be allowed to become bishops, its most significant work on the subject for years.
June 29, 2011 - The Daily Mail
Daily Mail: The joke of 'secure Britain'
Britain's powerlessness to control who has the right to be in this country was glaringly exposed last night by two extraordinary cases.
June 27, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: The young, sober and faithful gather among the capes and the collars
ALL OF the lights are flashing and the band is in good voice.
June 27, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Poland complains to Vatican over priest's remarks
A Polish priest and media mogul has sparked uproar in Poland by calling the country a totalitarian state that "hasn't been ruled by Poles since 1939" — a statement many interpret as code for saying Jews are secretly running the country.
June 25, 2011 - The Telegraph
The Telegraph: Church to break middle class stranglehold on oversubscribed schools
Parents who "gold plate" their membership of the Church by worshipping every week and volunteering to help at church will no longer get priority over less regular congregation members for classroom places for their children.
June 25, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Bishops reject portrayal of religious belief as 'divisive'
The Irish Human Rights Commission and those dismissive of religious belief and the Catholic ethos in schools were forcefully criticised at yesterday’s hearing of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector at the Department of Education in Dublin.
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 22, 2011 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Belfast riots renew calls for Protestant-Catholic dialogue
Rioting engulfed the Short Strand district of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Tuesday night, as pro-British loyalists and Irish republican residents of the area clashed for the second consecutive day.
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