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April 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mali’s neighbors impose financial sanctions on the country in effort to reverse coup
The body representing West African nations on Monday imposed severe financial sanctions on Mali, after a 72-hour deadline elapsed and the soldiers that recently seized power failed to fully restore constitutional order.
April 02, 2012 - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Balancing medicine, faith
As a medical student, Dr. Julie Oyler was told to remove the cross she wore on the lapel of her white coat.
April 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Czech Government's plan to return Church lands stirs resistance
A blockbuster bill wending its way through the Czech Parliament would, if passed as envisioned this spring, transact one of the biggest property deals in any former Soviet bloc country by restoring more than half of church property nationalized after the Communists seized power in 1948.
April 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Push for the right to die grows in the Netherlands
It was 1989, and Dr. Petra de Jong, a Dutch pulmonologist, was asked for help by a terminally ill patient, a man in great pain with a large cancerous tumor in his trachea.
April 01, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Muslim militants in south Thailand growing stronger
Muslim insurgents announced a deadly new departure in their long-running terror campaign in southern Thailand, with four explosions killing 14 people and injuring more than 300 on Saturday.
April 01, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Self-immolations reflect rising Tibetan anger
He walked three times around the rural monastery he had attended as a small child, cycled into town and had a simple vegetarian meal with a friend.
April 01, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Egyptian hard-liner’s surge, new worries for the Muslim Brotherhood
Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an old-school Islamist.
April 01, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: The faith factor: Religion's new prominence in campaign 2012
God hit the campaign trail way back in the summer of this election cycle.
April 01, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Despite papal visits, ministering to Cuba's Catholics still difficult
After two papal visits, the Roman Catholic Church enjoys growing support from long-suffering Cubans yet support from the Communist Party that rules this island nation can be described as reluctant at best.
March 31, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Cuba declares Good Friday a holiday this year after Pope Benedict appeal

The Associated Press AP: Cuba declares Good Friday a holiday this year after Pope Benedict appeal Paul Haven 2012-03-31 HAVANA — Cuba has honored an appeal by Pope Benedict XVI and declared next week’s Good Friday a holiday for the first time since the early days following the island’s 1959 Revolutio

March 31, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Bosnian minorities push for right to be prez
Dervo Sejdic never wanted to be president. But angered that he was barred from running because he's a gypsy, he decided to fight for the right "as a matter of principle."
March 31, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: The Islamist-secular battle is under way
Three great battles over political power have been unleashed across the Arab world and will persist for many years, until a new political order stabilizes in every country.
March 31, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Fort Bragg to host US military’s first-ever event geared toward atheist and agnostic soldiers
For the first time in history, the U.S. military hosted an event expressly for soldiers and others who don’t believe in God, with a gathering sort of like a county fair Saturday on the main parade ground at one of the world’s largest Army bases.
March 31, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Romney, Santorum court religious conservatives in Wisconsin
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum each sought to shore up their standing with religious conservatives on Saturday as the two leading rivals for the Republican presidential nomination battled for support in the Wisconsin primary.
March 31, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Far right militants fail to strike blow against Islam on their Danish awayday
It was heralded as the start of something big: the opening salvo in the formation of a pan-European coalition of anti-Islamic groups that opponents feared might replicate a network of street armies similar to those that undermined European democracies in the 1930s.
March 30, 2012 - The Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph: Christians driven out of Syrian cities
Almost the entire 50,000 strong Christian population of the Syrian city of Homs has been driven out by fighting, according to report.
March 29, 2012 - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Opinion: The tragedy of religious freedom in Syria
Religious freedom is the common sense of our era. It is easy to be swept up in the hype.
March 29, 2012 - The Times of India
Times of India: Cancer cases tied to religion, region in India
A youngster living in India's northeast is four times more likely to develop and succumb to cancer in his lifetime as compared to a youngster living in Bihar.
March 29, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Okla. court strikes down ultrasound abortion law
An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday struck down the state's law requiring women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound image placed in front of them and to listen to a detailed description of the fetus before the procedure.
March 29, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Atheist and pro-Israel, Maikel Nabil tests free speech in Egypt
Maikel Nabil's views are controversial in Egypt in almost every way – his open atheism, his support for gay rights, and especially his support for Israel.
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