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June 16, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Tunisia faces political struggle over Islam
Two and a half years after kindling a revolution that flamed across the Arab world, Tunisians have moved on to the next chapter, a political struggle between Islamic fundamentalism and the tolerant, Mediterranean-style Islam that has characterized their nation’s 57 years as an independent state.
June 16, 2013 - The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Milwaukee Jewish groups launching 'Hours Against Hate'
What would happen if all the people in Milwaukee, in Wisconsin, in the United States, devoted an hour of their time — just one hour — to getting to know someone who is different from them?
June 16, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: School prayer: 50 years after the ban, God and faith more present than ever
At the adolescent-unfriendly hour of 7:10 on this rainy spring morning in tiny Loachapoka, Ala., classes won't start for another half hour in the public school.
June 13, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: To emphasize social issues or not, that’s the question for the GOP
A fresh debate has erupted within the GOP over social issues.
June 13, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Analysis: Top court's gay marriage ruling won't be last word
Whatever the U.S. Supreme Court decides this month, gay marriage appears destined to face several more years of legal debate and at least one more round of argument at the high court.
June 13, 2013 - The Moscow Times
Moscow Times: Activists fear repercussions of 'Blasphemy Bill'
The bill protecting "believers' feelings," which rights activists and analysts have called a "step back" for Russia, a legal "Pandora's Box" and a return to the Dark Ages, looks set to take effect in July after sailing through the State Duma with a unanimous vote on Wednesday.
June 13, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Pope Francis is good for the Jews
Nearly half a century ago, the Second Vatican Council corrected the Roman Catholic Church's historical attitude toward Jews with the document "Nostra Aetate," which exonerated the Jewish people of any collective guilt for the killing of Jesus and affirmed that God's covenant with them had never been abrogated.
June 12, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Pope is quoted referring to a Vatican 'gay lobby'
For years, perhaps even centuries, it has been an open secret in Rome: That some prelates in the Vatican hierarchy are gay.
June 12, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Iranian election shows waning political influence of Shiite clerics
For most of its 34-year-old history, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been run by clerics serving not just as supreme leaders but also as elected presidents, their turban-clad figures becoming familiar worldwide as Iran’s public face.
June 12, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Differing interpretations of Bible’s message on helping poor at heart of NC capitol protests
Over the last two months, hundreds of protesters have walked out of North Carolina’s capitol in handcuffs to show their opposition to policies by the GOP-controlled Legislature.
June 11, 2013 - The News & Observer
News & Observer: Clergy lead Monday protests at General Assembly
Despite tornado warnings across the state, several thousand demonstrators gathered Monday under rainy skies to continue the weekly protests of the new policies and laws coming out of the General Assembly.
June 11, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Russia passes bill targeting some discussions of homosexuality
The Russian Parliament passed a bill on Tuesday that imposes a fine for what it calls propagandizing “nontraditional” sexual relationships among minors, in the latest in a wave of socially conservative new rules here.
June 11, 2013 - The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Mexican mayor turns over city to God, stirring debate
She rose to the podium and cast her eyes skyward. The mayor of Monterrey then entrusted her Mexican city to God and Jesus Christ as the crowd around her cheered.
June 10, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Evangelical Christians gain political clout in traditionally Catholic Brazil
When televangelist Silas Malafaia gathered 40,000 followers outside Brazil’s Congress this week, it wasn’t just to raise their arms to the sky and praise the Lord.
June 10, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Opponents of Cuomo's abortion bill step up in NY, call it stealth measure to expand procedure
Gov. Andrew Cuomo's high-priority proposal to strengthen the existing right for women to have abortions after six months of pregnancy when the fetus is viable outside the womb is energizing not just his liberal Democratic base, but opponents who call it a stealth expansion of abortion.
June 09, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: A decade later, Southern Baptists adapt to different political climate, culture, influence
A decade ago, the Southern Baptist Convention was riding high.
June 09, 2013 - The Sunday Herald
Sunday Herald: The new battle over religion in schools
The issue has been brought into the spotlight by a petition which has been lodged at the Scottish Parliament, supported by Secular Scotland – a lobby group campaigning for French-style separation of church and state – calling for a system in which parents would have to choose to "opt-in" if they want their children to participate in religious observance, for example in assemblies.
June 08, 2013 - The Observer
Observer: Turkey's protesters proclaimed as true heirs of nation's founding father
Among the tents, snoozing youth and pleasant shady trees of Istanbul's Gezi Park there are portraits of one man in a European suit. Wherever you look Mustafa Kemal Ataturk – founder of the Turkish Republic – gazes sternly at you.
June 07, 2013 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: New religious-freedom watchdog faces uphill battle
After he was released from more than a week of detention by Sri Lankan police last month, Muslim leader Azath Salley personally telephoned Ottawa’s High Commission in Colombo to thank Canada for condemning his arrest.
June 07, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: A Catholic campaign: ‘The new evangelization’
Gallagher felt anxious as he set out on a rainy Sunday afternoon to knock on doors in Georgetown, inviting people to a barbecue and, hopefully, to Jesus Christ.
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