Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
January 18, 2013
- The Associated Press
AP: As Tibet burns, China makes arrests, seizes TVs
Chinese authorities are responding to an intensified wave of Tibetan self-immolation protests against Chinese rule by clamping down even harder — criminalizing the suicides, arresting protesters' friends and even confiscating thousands of satellite TV dishes.
January 15, 2013
- The Associated Press
AP: Court: BA discriminated against Christian staffer
Religious freedom is a right but not an absolute one, Europe's top court said Tuesday, ruling that British Airways discriminated against a devoutly Christian employee by making her remove her crucifix, but backing a U.K. charity that fired a marriage counselor who refused to give sex therapy to gay couples.
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.
January 14, 2013
- The Associated Press
AP: RI coalition rallies support for gay marriage
Gov. Lincoln Chafee joined top labor officials and several religious leaders Monday in launching what they hope is the final push to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry in Rhode Island.
January 12, 2013
- The Economist
Economist: The knack of organisation
A LIBYAN official proudly shows pictures of his one-year-old triplet daughters on his mobile phone: polka-dotted veils hide the hair of all three, even though Muslim tradition suggests that girls need not cover up until puberty.
January 11, 2013
- The San Francisco Chronicle
SF Chronicle: Contraception coverage heads to high court
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's narrow decision to uphold the federal health care law, another challenge to the mandate for insurance coverage is headed toward the court.
January 10, 2013
- The Associated Press
AP: Poll: Most of Ireland favors wider abortion access
Most people in Ireland want lawmakers to give women wider access to abortion, a poll revealed Thursday as senior clerics testified before a parliamentary committee investigating Ireland's ban on the practice.
January 09, 2013
- The New York Times
NYT: At once Catholic and secular, France debates gay marriage
Frigide Barjot has made a career of mocking the establishment of France, dressing in fluorescent pink sweaters, playing in a band called the Dead Pompidous and hosting a philosophy soirée at which she handed out T-shirts with the logo, “Kierkegaard is my homeboy.”
January 09, 2013
- The New York Times
NYT: Jihadi group says it stands with other Syrian rebels
The Nusra Front, Syria’s largest and most powerful jihadist rebel group, has built a reputation as an effective fighting force in the country’s civil war, even though its extremist ideology — and accusations that it is part of Al Qaeda — have caused friction in Syria and anxiety abroad.
January 07, 2013
- The Washington Post
Wash Post: Egypt’s Christians worried by Islamists’ rise
Egypt’s Christians were worried about their safety on Monday as they marked the first Christmas under Islamist rule, with Coptic Pope Tawadros II urging worshipers “not to be afraid” and some complaining that their lives had gone from bad to worse in the nearly two years since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.