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March 20, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Albany boosts private schools
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have proposed increasing public funding for religious and private schools, potentially reversing years of cuts and handing the Roman Catholic Church a political victory.
March 20, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Violent rampages during culture war set to shift French politics
It is as if France has been frozen in horror, its institutions paralyzed, its politics halted, its leaders unable to respond.
March 19, 2012 - The Weekly Standard
Weekly Standard: Deadly Diversity
In Nigeria, thousands of people have been killed in recent months, and tens of thousands in the last decade.
March 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Rick Santorum courts conservative Christians as evangelicals embrace him
When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candidate, he had a simple message: Rick Santorum is one of us, and your parishioners should vote for him.
March 19, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Lebanon’s religious leaders to hold summit on uprisings
Lebanon’s top Muslim and Christian religious leaders will meet in a spiritual summit at the weekend to discuss fast-moving developments in the region, media reports said Sunday.
March 19, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Rabbi, three children shot dead outside Jewish school in France
France was plunged into mourning and national outrage Monday by the terrorist-style killings of three young children and a rabbi as they gathered for classes at a Jewish school in a quiet residential neighborhood of Toulouse.
March 19, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Supreme Court refuses church-state case involving child sex abuse by clergy
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case challenging the use of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state as a shield to block a negligence lawsuit against a Roman Catholic archdiocese that hired and supervised a priest accused of being a pedophile.
March 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Supreme Court stays out of dispute over Christian campus groups' challenge to Calif. policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a request by Christian groups on a college campus to allow them to limit membership based on religious beliefs.
March 19, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Rick Santorum has embraced Spanish priest behind devout Catholic group Opus Dei
In January 2002, prominent Catholics from around the world gathered in Rome to celebrate the Spanish priest who founded one of the church's most conservative and devout groups, Opus Dei.
March 19, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Cardinal Dolan's contraception fight with Obama
Just inside the heavy front door of the 19th-century neo-Gothic mansion at 452 Madison Avenue, the official residence of Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, rests a telling clue about the resident’s personality.
March 18, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Butchers beef up French Presidential campaign
The French butcher who cuts and tresses your meat with care, and serves as city dwellers' link to the land, is falling on hard times, unable to find new blood to keep his iconic image alive — as supermarkets and Arab butchers selling halal meat at cheaper prices thrive.
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 17, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: No sheikh-up here
BOOSTERS of the United Arab Emirates describe its political system as a rare success story in the Arab world.
March 17, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Poisoned chalice: Williams leaves a divided Church to his successor
The next Archbishop of Canterbury will face labyrinthine difficulties of Church, State and sexuality as he tries to get to grips with issues that have defeated one of the top brains in the country.
March 17, 2012 - The Telegraph
Telegraph: Senior Jew and Sikh fight gay marriage
A Sikh peer and a senior rabbi added their voices to protests by Anglican and Catholic bishops against the Coalition’s plans to allow homosexuals to marry.
March 16, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Stop humiliating Palestinian refugees
In a recent talk at the American University of Beirut, Chile’s former president, Michelle Bachelet, described how her country’s parliament was forced to issue a general amnesty in 1978, as a condition imposed by the dictator Augusto Pinochet to abandon power.
March 16, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: U.S. clarifies policy on birth control for religious groups
The Obama administration took another step on Friday to enforce a federal mandate for health insurance coverage of contraceptives, announcing how the new requirement would apply to the many Roman Catholic hospitals, universities and social service agencies that insure themselves.
March 16, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Ten years after ‘Gujarat,’ the man accused of sanctioning it is poised to become India’s PM
Crouched beside her husband waist deep in a rooftop water tank at 2 in the morning, Anjuman Bano listened to her Hindu neighbours debate.
March 15, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Ky. Supreme Court hears Amish buggy sign case
A group of Amish men who have spent time in jail for refusing to use a reflective symbol on their horse-drawn buggies asked the Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday to grant them a religious exemption from using the orange triangles.
March 15, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Amish bring religious freedom argument to Supreme Court, say buggy sign violates their faith
A group of Amish men who have spent time in jail for refusing to use a reflective symbol on their horse-drawn buggies asked the Kentucky Supreme Court on Thursday to grant them a religious exemption from using the orange triangles.
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