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June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Germany bans Islamic Salafist organization amid raids across the country
German authorities launched a nationwide crackdown Thursday on an ultraconservative Islamic organization, raiding homes, meeting halls and mosques, while banning one related group and opening in an investigation of two others.
June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Vatican gives traditionalists proposal for reconciliation in a bid to end schism
The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a final bid to end a quarter-century of schism, offering it a special legal status in the church currently enjoyed only by the conservative Opus Dei movement.
June 13, 2012 - El Pais
El Pais: Blasphemy ain’t what it used to be
God is busy with bigger things, but the arrogance of men makes them feel obligated to defend him, Penal Code in hand.
June 12, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Straight from the atheist's mouth - but Dawkins got it theologically wrong
JOHN WATERS wrote tellingly in The Irish Times last Friday that he would personally find it difficult to discuss transubstantiation with his best friend, “not because I have problems with the doctrine but because such matters are impossible to discuss in the language we use for politics, shopping and sex”.
June 12, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Church of England objects to gay marriage plan
The Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales formally objected Tuesday to the government's proposal to permit gay marriages, both asserting that their historic understanding is that marriage is the union of a woman and a man.
June 12, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Gay marriage plan could divorce Church from State
The Church of England faces its biggest rupture with the State in 500 years under government plans to legalise gay marriage.
June 09, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Sweetened charity
“IT MUST be borne in mind,” Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer told the House of Commons in his budget speech, “that in every case exemption means a relief to A at the charge of B.”
June 07, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Muslim extremists at top-security jail are spreading fear among inmates and staff’
Muslim prisoners are bullying inmates to convert to Islam at a top-security jail, provoking fear of a campaign to radicalise prisoners.
June 07, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In Mali, an Islamist extremist haven takes shape
A vast new sanctuary is emerging for al-Qaeda’s African followers in the desert wastelands of northern Mali, where Tuareg secessionists, allied with extremist Muslim guerrillas, have shaken off government rule and declared an independent Islamist state.
June 06, 2012 - El Pais
El Pais: Eighty percent of Spaniards believe Church should pay property tax
The consensus has been broken. Leopoldo González-Echenique, an attorney general who was part of the previous Popular Party (PP) administration, has been put forward as the government’s choice to chair Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), the embattled public broadcaster.
June 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Reasserting and redefining Jewish culture in Poland
sitting at a Warsaw sidewalk café with her long dreadlocks wrapped in a colorful turquoise and orange scarf — said she first learned of her Jewish roots about a decade ago.
June 04, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Hostility between Muslims and German nationalists rattles a former capital
The people who live in the trim row houses with well-tended gardens that line the streets of this spa town along the Rhine like to boast of their city's tolerance, which dates to its time as the capital of West Germany and home to dozens of foreign embassies.
May 31, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Russian Church is a strong voice opposing intervention in Syria
As the West sought to pressure the Kremlin recently to help stop the killing in Syria, diplomats from Damascus were ushered into the heart of one of Russian Orthodoxy's main shrines.
May 28, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope's butler vows to help Vatican scandal probe
The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home, agreeing to cooperate with investigators — raising the specter that higher-ranking ecclesial heads may soon roll.
May 19, 2012 - The Scotsman
Scotsman: General Assembly: Church accused of facilitating worship of ‘false idols’
The church at the centre of the threatened schism in the Kirk over gay clergy was accused of encouraging the worship of ‘false idols’ on church property on the opening day of the General Assembly.
May 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Vatican calls leak 'criminal'
The Vatican has denounced as "criminal" a new book of leaked internal documents that shed light on power struggles inside the Holy See and the thinking of its embattled top banker, and warned that it would take legal action against those responsible.
May 16, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Bible not the rule book on gay marriage
Diarmuid Martin, Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, was asked last week for his views on same-sex marriage. The question arose in the aftermath of the support Barack Obama voiced for same-sex marriage.
May 16, 2012 - The Daily Mail
Daily Mail: 'Dangerous atheists want to wipe out Christianity': Cardinal warns lack of belief fosters violence
The country’s most senior Roman Catholic warned yesterday that secular atheists mean to wipe out Christianity in Britain.
May 16, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Money becomes new church battleground
The Rev Paul Perkin seemed bewildered by the question: what was his take on the latest scheme for conservative evangelical churches to withhold money from the rest of the Church of England in order to keep it out of the hands of liberals, gay people or women priests?
May 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Critics of Russian Orthodox Church say it's sold its soul to Putin
The skinny dissident is thrown headfirst into a police van by camouflage-clad officers.
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