Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
October 30, 2012
- New York Times
NYT: Supporters of same-sex marriage see room for victories
For opponents of same-sex marriage, it has been a potent and often repeated talking point: though the courts or the legislatures of some states have given gay and lesbian couples the right to marry, wherever it has appeared on the ballot, voters have rejected it.
October 28, 2012
- Detroit Free Press
Detroit Free Press: Politics, religion tangled up in lawsuit
As a conservative Christian who opposes gay marriage and abortion rights, Pastor Levon Yuille of Ypsilanti said he thinks he has a duty to tell parishioners that they should support politicians who share those views.
October 25, 2012
- Reuters
Reuters: In Myanmar's volatile west, sectarian violence worsens
Hundreds of homes burned and gunfire rang out as sectarian violence raged for a fifth day between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in western Myanmar on Thursday, pushing the death toll to nearly 60 and testing the country's nascent democracy.
October 25, 2012
- Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Evangelical support grows for Romney
Celebration Church sits tucked away in the corner of a repurposed shopping mall, one of the more modest venues for worship in this city of booming megachurches and superstar preachers.
October 23, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Mass. US Senate candidates vie for Catholic votes
Not so long ago, Catholic voters in Massachusetts were seen as reliably Democratic, helping propel fellow Bay State Catholics like John F. Kennedy and Tip O'Neill into the uppermost echelons of national government.
October 23, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: British conservatives play the abortion card
With hindsight, perhaps the most surprising thing is how long abortion has been off the political agenda in Britain. An intensely divisive political issue elsewhere, the subject rarely makes the front pages here.
October 22, 2012
- Reuters
Reuters: Gay marriage plan hits opposition, delays in France
Plans by France's Socialist government to legalize same-sex marriage are proving harder to enact than first thought after faith leaders and conservatives mobilized against it even as left-wing deputies try to expand it.
October 22, 2012
- The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Romney supporters make push for evangelical voters
Conservative activists are making a big push to drive evangelical voters to the polls, sensing that a large pool of voters with conservative Christian leanings who sat out the 2008 election could provide a surge for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
October 21, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: In Texas, a legal battle over biblical banners
In a barrage of recent e-mails, telephone calls and letters to his office, Kevin Weldon has been called some of the worst things a Christian man in this predominantly Christian town can be called: un-Christian, and even anti-Christian.
October 20, 2012
- The Economist
Economist: Over my dead body
VOTERS in Massachusetts will decide next month whether a terminally ill patient with less than six months to live should be able to use a doctor’s help in committing suicide.
October 20, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Church appeal on Israel angers Jewish groups
A letter signed by 15 leaders of Christian churches that calls for Congress to reconsider giving aid to Israel because of accusations of human rights violations has outraged Jewish leaders and threatened to derail longstanding efforts to build interfaith relations.