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February 08, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Orthodox Christians in fear of 'utter chaos' seek refuge in prayer
THE ORTHODOX convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya sits four-square on a hilltop an hour’s drive from Damascus.
February 08, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Religious leaders call for unity at a time of Arab uprisings
Lebanon’s top Christian and Muslim leaders called Tuesday for national unity in light of the difficult circumstances in Lebanon and the Arab world.
February 08, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: The church that politics turned into a mosque

As worshipers knelt to face the Qiblah for noon prayers in the Hagia Sophia of Iznik last week, a caretaker beckoned to a couple of tourists tiptoeing around behind them.      

 
February 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Abbas considered to lead interim Palestinian body
Initial Palestinian reports late Sunday indicated that the leaders of the rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas might have found a way to break a long political deadlock by forming an interim unity government that would be led, at least at first, by Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank.
February 04, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Christians fear being dragged into Syrian violence
WHEN Father Basilious Nasser got an urgent call to say that one of his parishioners had been shot and needed help, the priest went immediately.
February 03, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Fearful Christian leaders keep their faith in Assad
When Father Basilious Nasser got an urgent call to say that one of his parishioners had been shot and needed help, the priest went immediately.
February 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Turkey’s ties with Hamas deepen amid questions about the influence of sponsors Iran and Syria
Ties between Turkey, NATO's biggest Muslim member, and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that says Israel should not exist, are blossoming.
January 31, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Religious trash talk goes mainstream in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process suspended, religious fundamentalists on both sides of the conflict are gaining wider influence.
January 30, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israeli settler seeks to beat Netanyahu in primary
A hard-line Jewish settler who wants to pay Palestinians to leave the West Bank and Gaza is running against Israel's prime minister in Tuesday's ruling party primary election.
January 30, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement
From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key chain bearing the face of the Virgin Mary as she sits in her yellow pajamas on the morning of Orthodox Christmas.
January 30, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Tunisia faces a balancing act of democracy and religion
The insults were furious. “Infidel!” and “Apostate!” the religious protesters shouted at the two men who had come to the courthouse to show their support for a television director on trial on charges of blasphemy.
January 29, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Syria uprising: Religion overshadowing the democratic push
The sectarian fault line in Syria is growing more apparent as the conflict steadily intensifies between the Alawite-dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the mainly Sunni rebel Free Syrian Army.
January 29, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Climate of intolerance in West Bank, activists say
A Palestinian atheist who was jailed and beaten last year for expressing anti-Muslim views on Facebook and in blogs says Palestinian security forces are harassing him again, despite government pledges to respect human rights.
January 29, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
C.S. Monitor: Syria uprising: Religion overshadowing the democratic push
The sectarian fault line in Syria is growing more apparent as the conflict steadily intensifies between the Alawite-dominated regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the mainly Sunni rebel Free Syrian Army.
January 27, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Women have been an essential component of the uprising in Syria
On Jan. 10, while President Bashar Assad addressed his supporters in Damascus, the Syrian authorities handed the tiny tortured body of a 4-month old baby girl to her uncle in Homs.
January 26, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Egyptians show mix of jubilation, anger to mark anniversary
Egyptians took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30-year dictatorship, amid deepening concern that bitter political divisions and a troubled economy have deflated Egypt's once heady revolutionary hopes.
January 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Top Iraqi Shiite politician urges Sunni-backed bloc to end boycott of parliament
A top Iraqi Shiite official said Thursday that the political crisis pitting Shiite officials against his country's largest Sunni-backed bloc must end.
January 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Holocaust survivors mark tragedy in own way; with study, not ceremony
It’s a huge question for observant Jews: How can one still believe in a merciful God after suffering through the worst genocide in history?
January 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Saudi Arabia issues its first sovereign Islamic bond
Saudi Arabia issued its first government-backed Islamic bond this week, for its aviation agency, setting a benchmark for pricing of conventional and Islamic bond issues this year because of its size.
January 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Bahrain, worries grow of violent Shiite-Sunni confrontation
Mohammed Ibrahim, 19, a Shiite student at the University of Bahrain, says he has gotten used to the tear gas the police use to disperse protests, which he and his friends attend every Friday.
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