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April 22, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Protests against same-sex marriage bill intensify in France
On Tuesday afternoon, France is expected to become the 14th country to legalize marriage for all couples, regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
April 21, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Search for home led suspect to land marred by strife
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had already found religion by the time he landed in Dagestan, a combustible region in the North Caucasus that has become the epicenter of a violent Islamic insurgency in Russia and a hub of jihadist recruitment. What he seemed to be yearning for was a home.
April 21, 2013 - National Public Radio
NPR: Danger in conflation: separating Islam from acts of terror
Host Jacki Lyden talks to Omid Safi, professor of religious studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Safi has blogged about the Tsarnaev brothers, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, and what it means to the American Islamic community that the brothers are Muslim.
April 21, 2013 - The Washington Times
Washington Times: Hindu nationalist, banned from U.S., leading candidate for prime minister
A Hindu nationalist leader is his party’s top candidate to become India’s next prime minister, despite being banned from entering the U.S. because of accusations his government was involved in deadly anti-Muslim riots.
April 20, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Voting soon on Michigan bill allowing refusal of health care on moral basis
For 35 years, Michigan law has protected health care providers who refuse to perform an abortion on moral or religious grounds.
April 19, 2013 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Embassies, Islamic groups fear attacks against Muslims
In the jarring aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, the Saudi Arabian embassy and consulate prepared for the worst.
April 19, 2013 - The Dallas Morning News
Dallas Morning News: Boy Scouts please few with proposal to partly rescind ban on gays
No one seemed satisfied Friday when the Boy Scouts of America proposed a historic policy change to allow openly gay youths as Scouts while simultaneously maintaining a ban on gay adult volunteers and paid staff.
April 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Cheers and Maori song as lawmakers make New Zealand 13th country to legalize gay marriage
The halls of Parliament echoed with a traditional Maori love song after lawmakers made New Zealand the 13th country in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage.
April 18, 2013 - The Guardian
Guardian: Buddhist monk uses racism and rumours to spread hatred in Burma
His name is Wirathu, he calls himself the "Burmese Bin Laden" and he is a Buddhist monk who is stoking religious hatred across Burma.
April 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: At desert monastery, Egypt's monks join new Christian assertiveness in face of Islamist power
In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the world some 17 centuries ago. At the foot of the mountain, the monks at the St. Anthony’s Monastery bearing his name continue the ascetic tradition.
April 18, 2013 - The Seattle Times
Seattle Times: State’s case against florist fires up gay-marriage critics
The state attorney general’s surprising lawsuit against a small florist in Eastern Washington has energized gay-marriage opponents who all but disappeared after failing to defeat same-sex marriage in Washington last fall.
April 17, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: 9th Circuit hears arguments on therapy aimed at converting gays
A federal appeals court Wednesday grappled with whether a California ban on therapy to change a minor’s sexual orientation amounted to a restriction on free speech or mere regulation of a medical treatment.
April 16, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Ireland takes step toward gay marriage rights
Ireland, a famously conservative country with a government dominated by the center-right, has taken a step toward legalizing same-sex marriage, following several other Catholic nations into what some say is belated equality – and others claim is murky legal and moral territory.
April 15, 2013 - The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: East St. Louis pastors and mayor in First Amendment standoff
After the Rev. Anthony Vincent, the city’s director of emergency services, delivered an opening prayer, the City Council took up some standard issues — maintenance of a traffic light, filling in a pot hole.
April 15, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Online furor draws press to abortion doctor's trial
Through four weeks, prosecutors have laid out evidence against Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion provider on trial on charges of killing seven viable fetuses by “snipping” their necks with scissors and of causing the death of a pregnant 41-year-old woman during a procedure.
April 13, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: For Evangelicals, a shift in views on immigration
In the pews of the First Baptist Church of Orlando, where thousands of evangelical Christians gather on Sundays to worship and sing, a change of heart is happening on the once toxic issue of immigration.
April 13, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: California lawmakers aim to ease abortion rules as some states tighten
A proposal to allow nurses and midwives to perform some abortions is advancing in California's Democratic legislature, a move supporters hope will influence the national debate on abortion even as other states are tightening the rules.
April 13, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope names cardinals to advise him on running the church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy
Pope Francis named eight cardinals from around the globe Saturday to advise him on running the Catholic Church and reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, marking his first month as pope with a major initiative to reflect the universal nature of the church in key governing decisions.
April 11, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Uruguay becomes 3rd country in Americas to legalize gay marriage after Canada and Argentina
Uruguayan lawmakers voted to legalize gay marriage, making the South American country the third in the Americas to do so.
April 11, 2013 - The National Post
National Post: Attendance at religious services lowers risk of depression, study finds
A major new study that tracked more than 12,000 Canadians over a period of 14 years has found that regular attendance of religious service offers significant protection against depression.
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