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April 24, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Laws against veils, mosques fuel anti-Muslim prejudice, says Amnesty
European laws on what girls and women wear on their heads are encouraging discrimination against Muslims and against a religion that has been part of Europe’s fabric for centuries, Amnesty International says in a new report.
April 21, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Koran study
THE Gideons in Germany give away 2,000 Bibles a day and nobody complains.
April 17, 2012 - The Straits Times
Straits Times: Megachurches 'conservative but tolerant'
Protestants who worship at megachurches in Singapore have more conservative views than Christians from other denominations, a survey has found.
April 09, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: New wave of well-off Pakistani women drawn to conservative Islam
All the women working in the information technology division of the Bank of Punjab's headquarters in the western Pakistani city of Lahore wear headscarves tightly wound around their cheeks and chin, framing their faces as they tap at their keyboards.
April 08, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Seeking to clear a path between yoga and Islam
As a community activist in Queens, Muhammad Rashid has fought for the rights of immigrants held in detention, sought the preservation of local movie theaters and held a street fair to promote diversity.
April 08, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Atheism v religion debate moving on from stalemate, says archbishop
The high tide of "new atheism" may have passed, the archbishop of Canterbury has said in his Easter sermon. Rowan Williams said the atheism v religion debate appeared to be moving on from what he called "a pointless stalemate".
April 08, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: A northern Iraqi Easter
In the small church of St. Addaie the Messenger, the crucifixion and resurrection, retold in the village for the past 2,000 years, was re-enacted in elaborate Easter celebrations by a community holding fast to its ancient traditions but uneasy about its future.
April 07, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: NKorea's Bethlehem is birthplace of Kim religion
As the snow drifts through the towering evergreen trees, silence enshrouds this remote pilgrimage site, a place some here consider the Bethlehem of North Korea.
April 06, 2012 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: A spirited topic: Money and religion
When you need financial advice, your first instinct may be to turn to a professional money adviser, financial how-to book or family member.
April 05, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Unchristian acts distort message of Jesus Christ
THIS WEEKEND, Christians around the world will mark the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. But what has been the legacy of the man with a simple message of love and peace, who sacrificed himself for humankind more than 2,000 years ago?
March 31, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Building a business on churches for sale
In better economic times, workers in this dusty inland town east of Los Angeles built motor homes in the low-slung complex at 975 West First Street.
March 29, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: In Pakistan, faith healers have no shortage of believers
Villagers in this small textile town thought Saeed Mehmood ul Hasan had a pipeline to God.
March 27, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Forced conversions hike Pakistan minorities' fears
It was barely 4 a.m. when 19-year-old Rinkal Kumari disappeared from her home in a small village in Pakistan's southern Sindh province.
March 27, 2012 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Star Tribune: ELCA church in St. Paul picks openly gay pastor
An Atlanta pastor once ousted from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for being in an openly gay relationship will now lead the biggest Lutheran church in St. Paul.
March 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Pakistan, Hindus say woman’s conversion to Islam was coerced
Banditry is an old scourge in this impoverished district of southern Pakistan, on the plains between the mighty river Indus and a sprawling desert, where roving gangs rob and kidnap with abandon.
March 24, 2012 - Agence France-Presse
AFP: Thousands of U.S. atheists turn out for 'Reason Rally'
Thousands of atheists, agnostics and other non-believers turned out in the US capital on Saturday to celebrate their rejection of the idea of God and to claim a bigger place in public life.
March 23, 2012 - National Post
National Post: 'Destroy all the churches'
Imagine if television evangelist Pat Robertson called for the demolition of all the mosques in America. It would be front-page news. It would be on every network and cable news program.
March 18, 2012 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: Historic black church faces foreclosure from minority-owned bank
In a dispute that some are calling a modern-day updating of the biblical Parable of the Ungrateful Servant, a minority-owned bank that benefited from federal bailout funds is threatening to foreclose on one of the nation’s oldest black churches.
March 16, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Clergy calling for boycott of OneUnited Bank
Local religious leaders gathered Thursday outside the OneUnited Bank branch in Grove Hall to urge customers to withdraw their funds because the bank is planning to foreclose on nearby Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church in Roxbury.
March 16, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Distinct paths to missionary service
Jake Pulsipher's first day as a working missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began at 6:30 a.m. on a recent Tuesday with prayer and exercise, followed by breakfast and study.
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