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April 12, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Opinion: Persecution against Christian minorities in the world
Recently, the human-rights activist, former Dutch politician, and Somali exile Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote about a global war on Christians in Muslim countries.
April 12, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Families of murder victims played key role in Connecticut’s path to repealing death penalty
The vote to repeal Connecticut's death penalty brought a moment of triumph for Elizabeth Brancato, a lifelong opponent of capital punishment despite the murder of her mother in 1979.
April 12, 2012 - The Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune: Catholic bishops call for national religious liberty campaign in parishes this summer
A panel of the nation’s Catholic bishops urged their colleagues Thursday to launch a two-week summer campaign in nearly 18,000 parishes to energize Catholics against what the bishops see as developing threats, in government policy and on college campuses, to the religious liberty of Catholics and people of other faiths.
April 12, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: The danger that Saudi Arabia will turn Syria into an Islamist hotbed
Even as a tentative ceasefire brings an uneasy calm to Syria, opposition leaders and US officials express skepticism that it will hold, particularly in the face of the Assad regime’s record of broken promises.
April 11, 2012 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer: Passion for social issues may have doomed Santorum
Most presidential candidates would have brushed aside the young woman's challenge, perhaps mumbling something polite about agreeing to disagree.
April 11, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: India puts Kashmir on table
India is willing to talk about the disputed territory of Kashmir with Pakistan as part of an effort to advance peace talks, India's top diplomat said, adding that Pakistan needs to take serious action against militants that use its soil to attack India.
April 11, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: The ‘Sinai Spring’ hasn’t altered Bedouin culture
Sinai is beautiful, blessed by wonderful beaches, high-reaching mountains, a desert that changes color with the moving sun, and natural resources aplenty.
April 11, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: Silenced priest told to reflect on situation
REDEMPTORIST PRIEST Fr Tony Flannery, who was silenced by the Vatican because of his views on contraception, celibacy and women’s ordination, has been advised by Rome to go to a monastery for a period where he would “pray and reflect” on his situation.
April 11, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Gov. Haslam allows evolution bill to become TN law
A bill that encourages classroom debate over evolution will become law in Tennessee, despite a veto campaign mounted by scientists and civil libertarians who say it will reopen a decades-old controversy over teaching creationism to the state’s schoolchildren.
April 11, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: School vouchers gain ground
Louisiana is poised to establish the nation's most expansive system of school choice by adopting a package of vouchers and other tools that would give many parents control over the use of tax dollars to educate their children.
April 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Santorum out, evangelicals edge closer to Romney, but warily
Rick Santorum had been the last best hope of Christian conservatives who opposed Mitt Romney, derided by many as a “Massachusetts moderate.”
April 11, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Coptic Christians fight for place in Egypt's political scene
Father Alfons Marzou shuffles across a complex that is home to sisters for the Catholic Missionaries of Charity, whose nuns provide medical care and food to impoverished children living amid heaps of garbage.
April 10, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: President and patriarch see eye to eye
President Michel Sleiman and Patriarch Beshara Rai’s simultaneous announcements of Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to Lebanon from Sept. 14-16 – during which he will sign the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation for the Middle East – is a sign of the coordination and cooperation between the president and the patriarch.
April 10, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Oklahoma, weighing 'personhood' law, may be next US abortion flashpoint
A proposed law in Oklahoma that would grant embryos full rights as people from the moment of conception may represent the next big challenge to the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
April 10, 2012 - The Boston Herald
Boston Herald: Barack Obama faces pressure over same-sex marriage
President Barack Obama, who has fended off questions about his position on same-sex marriage for nearly a year and a half by saying his views are  "evolving," faces increasing pressure within his party as momentum builds to declare support for marriage equality in the party’s official platform.
April 10, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Opinion: Atheists can't see that faith complements science
THIS week in Melbourne the 2012 Global Atheist Convention celebrates the triumph of reason over faith, of scientific rationalism over religious dogmatism. Or at least that's how participants would portray it.
April 10, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Opinion: Islamists inside the gates
In one country after another, mass religious-inspired political movements have outmaneuvered weak liberal parties.
April 09, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: New wave of well-off Pakistani women drawn to conservative Islam
All the women working in the information technology division of the Bank of Punjab's headquarters in the western Pakistani city of Lahore wear headscarves tightly wound around their cheeks and chin, framing their faces as they tap at their keyboards.
April 08, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: As states OK school vouchers, fight over public dollars for private education turns to courts
Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.
April 08, 2012 - Chattanooga Times Free Press
Times Free Press: Southern Baptists seek fairness in national immigration debate
Twice before, the Southern Baptist Convention has called for the federal government to do something about illegal immigration.
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