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February 14, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Elie Wiesel calls on Mitt Romney to make Mormon Church stop proxy baptisms of Jews
Nobel-laureate Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and a top official from the Simon Wiesenthal Center said Tuesday that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should use his stature in the Mormon Church to block its members from posthumously baptizing Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
February 12, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Amish man's letters sway lawmakers on buggy issue
The simple, heart-felt letters of an old-fashioned Amish man are being credited for the Senate's quick passage of a bill that would allow Kentucky's Amish residents to use reflective tape on their horse-drawn buggies instead of the bright orange triangular signs that they object to on religious grounds.
February 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Movie house as chapel: NYC congregations, evicted from schools, seek new space for worship
Scores of religious congregations are scrounging for cheap space in New York City as they prepare to be evicted, on constitutional grounds, from rooms they've been renting at public schools.
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 - Detroit Free Press
Free Press: Judges to decide: Can religious confessions be used against you?
Michigan Court of Appeals judges will hear arguments Thursday on a case that could have serious repercussions for church members: Can what you confess to your pastor be used against you in a court of law?
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 07, 2012 - Straits Times
Straits Times: Is Atheism Illegal in Indonesia?
After surviving a mob attack over a Facebook posting, 31-year-old Indonesian civil servant Alexander Aan was taken into custody by the West Sumatra police for his own safety.
February 04, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Shafia murders: Fatwa issued against honour killings, domestic violence, hatred of women.
Muslim clerics in Canada issued a fatwa on Saturday against honour killings, domestic violence and hatred of women.
February 03, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Court upholds Scientology fraud ruling in France
A FRENCH appeals court has upheld fraud charges and a €600,000 fine against the Church of Scientology for cajoling followers into paying large sums for bogus personality tests and cures.
February 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Contraception mandate outrages religious groups
The Obama administration’s decision requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control was bound to cause an uproar among Roman Catholics and members of other faiths, no matter their beliefs on contraception.
January 31, 2012 - Deseret News
Deseret News: Food storage important to more than Mormons
Two checks were lost in the mail, and Courtney Havenwood was starting to panic.
January 26, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Alain de Botton reveals plans for 'temple to atheism' in heart of London
Plans to build a £1m "temple for atheists" among the international banks and medieval church spires of the City of London have sparked a clash between two of Britain's most prominent non-believers.
January 14, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Shiite pilgrims defy bombings in Iraq to mark Arbaeen
Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims, intent on carrying out a commemoration denied to them here for decades, are defying ongoing bombings to converge on the holy city of Karbala.
January 12, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Salman Rushdie brushes off call for festival 'blasphemy' ban
The vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband, one of India's most influential Islamic seminaries, has called on the government to deny the Indian-born writer a visa to attend the Jaipur Literary Festival over the insult caused to Muslims by his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
January 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: After losing a lawsuit, taking their appeal to God
They have tried letter-writing, petitions and a lawsuit, all to no avail. So now the Christian congregations that are weeks away from expulsion from New York City’s public schools are focusing on more-religious tools in their arsenal: prayer, fasting and repentance.
January 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Kentucky Amish men face jail time for refusing to use orange triangles on horse-drawn buggies
On Jacob Gingerich's farm in western Kentucky, there is no phone or electricity for his family of 12 children.
January 07, 2012 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer: Churches struggle with declining congregations
For a while, it seemed as if the new year would be anything but happy for the members of St. James Episcopal Church in Prospect Park.
January 06, 2012 - The Toronto Star
The Star: An Ethiopian Christmas
The scene felt like it was straight out of a fairytale book from other lands.
January 05, 2012 - New York Daily News
NY Daily News: Infinity NY Church fears longtime center home is threatened by New York City Housing Authority policy
Clergy who use New York City Housing Authority community centers are in fear that they will be banned after receiving notice that their agreements to use the spaces are being reviewed.
January 05, 2012 - The Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Magistrate advises: Ban on long beards in prison to continue
Acknowledging that the issue was a "pretty close call," a magistrate judge on Wednesday said he will recommend that a Muslim inmate be required to shave his beard despite the inmate's religious objections.
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