Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
January 27, 2011
- The New York Times
NYT: Ugandan gay rights activist is beaten to death
An outspoken Ugandan gay activist whose picture recently appeared in an antigay newspaper under the headline “Hang Them” was beaten to death in his home, Ugandan police said Thursday.
January 12, 2011
- The Associated Press
AP: Religion and region at play in Nigerian election
Nigeria's ruling political party will pick its presidential candidate Thursday for the April election, a decision that delegates may make based on where the candidate is from rather than what he has to offer.
January 10, 2011
- The New York Times
NYT: Voting is peaceful in south Sudan despite border clashes
As voters continued flooding the polls on Monday for a landmark
referendum on southern Sudan’s independence, officials said more than 40
people had been killed over the weekend in intense skirmishes in a
contested area along Sudan’s north-south border.
January 04, 2011
- Religion News Service
RNS: Technology unites missionaries, families around the world
Janine Winkler loves reading books to her 2-year-old grandson Judah, but instead of sitting on her lap at her home in Michigan, he's usually half a world away in Nigeria, where his father works for Wycliffe Bible Translators.
November 24, 2010
- Religion News Service
RNS: Blasphemy resolution passes U.N. committee
A resolution combating the "vilification of religions" was adopted Tuesday (Nov. 23) by a United Nations committee, but religious freedom advocates who oppose the measure say support for it continues to diminish.
November 23, 2010
- The Associated Press
AP: Hit by AIDS, Africa welcomes pope's condom message
From clerics to AIDS activists, Africans applauded Pope Benedict XVI's
suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations to protect
partners — a shift that could make a dramatic impact in a continent that
is both battling an HIV pandemic and is the fastest-growing region for
the Roman Catholic church.
November 17, 2010
- The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Support for female circumcision declining in Africa, study shows
Some experts thought it was so embedded in traditional culture that it
would never change. But new evidence shows that African countries have
made surprising progress in reducing the rate of female genital cutting,
a controversial and often illegal practice that can cause lifelong
injury and illness to girls and women.
November 14, 2010
- The Associated Press
AP: Israel welcomes last Ethiopians of Jewish descent
After years of languishing in makeshift shelters in the Horn of Africa,
the final remnants of an Ethiopian community claiming Jewish descent
received permission Sunday to move to Israel.
October 18, 2010
- The New York Times
NYT: Killings in Nigeria are linked to Islamic sect
A rash of mysterious killings by gun-wielding motorcycle assassins of
policemen, politicians and others in this city near the desert has led
authorities to declare that a radical Islamic sect thought to have been
crushed by Nigerian troops last year has been revived.