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February 25, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: U.N. told atheists face discrimination around globe
Atheists, humanists and freethinkers face widespread discrimination around the world with expression of their views criminalized and subject in some countries to capital punishment, the United Nations was told on Monday.
February 16, 2013 - The Observer
Observer: As Africa rises, Europe loses grip on Catholic power base
The muted light of an African sunset filters into the high, pointed roof of Christ The King church in Accra, a wide, understated building just metres away from the seat of government in Ghana's capital city.
February 14, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Experts: Tunisian government unable to stop jihadists from heading abroad
The cradle of the Arab Spring is increasingly looking like the birthplace of jihadists.
February 14, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Ethiopia airs jihadi film amid sensitive Muslim protest trial
Ethiopia, a US ally in the battle against Al Qaeda-affiliated militants in Somalia, added to mounting worries about religious discord in the diverse east African state by screening a provocative documentary on Islamic extremism.
February 13, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Bahrainis divided as leaders start reconciliation talks
For Maryam Abdullah Jawad, a Shi'ite Muslim, grief at the loss of her son prevents her even contemplating the idea of solving Bahrain's political ferment by talking to its hereditary rulers.
February 13, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Anger is growing among Iraq's Sunnis
The call to prayer echoes across the quiet highway in western Iraq and a few hundred men gather along the roadside in the frigid night air.
February 11, 2013 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: A Saudi-inspired all-faiths hub
The underappreciated power of prayer is a prime motivating force behind a new Saudi-inspired interfaith center in Austria that seeks to become the place for world religious leaders to meet, solve problems and melt the “mountain of fears” that exists between religious people, says the Saudi official who is championing the ambitious project.
February 08, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Bringing ultra-Orthodox traditions to Israel’s Parliament, olive branch in hand
Dov Lipman’s introduction to the conundrum of the ultra-Orthodox in modern Israel began more than two decades ago, when he was a 19-year-old American student in a Jerusalem yeshiva.
February 07, 2013 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Iran urges young couples to have more babies
Thirty-eight-year-old Reza Ali Mohammadi, a typist, and his wife, who stays at home, recently had their second son and wouldn't mind having a larger family.
February 06, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Tunisian opposition leader shot dead
An outspoken critic of Tunisia’s Islamist government was shot dead outside his home Wednesday, underscoring a deepening political rift between newly empowered Islamists and their secular opposition in states across North Africa since the Arab Spring.
February 05, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Interview: Morocco Islamists warn of unrest
Morocco likes to project itself as unique in the Middle East in finding a third way between revolution and repression amid the uprisings of the Arab Spring.
February 05, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Interview: Egypt’s Coptic Christian pope delivers measured criticism of Islamist government
Egypt’s Coptic patriarch delivered a cautious but unusually sharp criticism of the nation’s Islamist leadership in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, dismissing the new constitution as discriminatory and rounds of national dialogues sponsored by the president as meaningless.
February 03, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Academic study weakens Israeli claim that Palestinian school texts teach hate
An academic study of the contents of Israeli and Palestinian Authority textbooks, to be published Monday, finds that each side generally presents the other as the enemy, but it undermines recent assertions by the Israeli government that Palestinian children are educated “to hate.”
February 02, 2013 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Iraq’s Christians still searching for a home
Sitting in the living room of his home in Erbil, capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, 63-year-old Rostom Sefarian stops talking, struggling to hold back the tears.
January 28, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Israeli secularists appear to find their voice
Speaking to a group of ultra-Orthodox men shortly before he officially entered politics, Yair Lapid, a proudly secular talk-show host, declared that in a century-long competition to define Israel’s character, “we lost and you won.”
January 26, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Jihadists and secular activists clash in Syria
The tensions had been simmering for months in the northern Syrian town of Saraqib.
January 24, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Critics of Jordan's king perform well in election
The surprise victory of 37 Islamist and other government critics despite an election boycott injects a degree of dissent into Jordan's newly empowered parliament.
January 22, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Charismatic leader helps Israel turn toward the center
With his good looks and suave manner, Yair Lapid had long been a celebrity and symbol of success here, building a strong following as a prominent journalist and the host of a popular television show.
January 19, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Jihadists’ surge in North Africa reveals grim side of Arab spring
As the uprising closed in around him, the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi warned that if he fell, chaos and holy war would overtake North Africa.
January 14, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Morsi’s slurs against Jews stir concern
Nearly three years ago, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood delivered a speech urging Egyptians to “nurse our children and our grandchildren on hatred” for Jews and Zionists.
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