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April 07, 2012 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Obama praised – and pummeled – on matters of faith
President Obama stood before an audience of distinguished Christian clergy and lay leaders and took on the mantle of pastor in chief.
April 07, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: NKorea's Bethlehem is birthplace of Kim religion
As the snow drifts through the towering evergreen trees, silence enshrouds this remote pilgrimage site, a place some here consider the Bethlehem of North Korea.
April 07, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Religious people are more likely to be leftwing, says thinktank Demos
"We don't do God," Alastair Campbell famously insisted when journalists pressed the former prime minister, Tony Blair, on matters of faith.
April 06, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Gaza militants say they'll adhere to cease-fire
A Palestinian militant leader said Friday that his group is adhering to a cease-fire that stopped a barrage of rockets and air strikes between Israel and the Gaza Strip last month.
April 06, 2012 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: A spirited topic: Money and religion
When you need financial advice, your first instinct may be to turn to a professional money adviser, financial how-to book or family member.
April 06, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Sentamu is urged to find faith in himself as leader who can unite troubled Church
Outside of the west end of York Minster tomorrow, 13 willing volunteers from local churches will be submerged in a tank of water in a series of open-air baptisms that have become a hallmark of Dr John Sentamu's time in the Church of England's northern province.
April 06, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Mali rebels declare independence in north as fears grow over extremist links
Tuareg rebels who swept across the deserts of northern Mali in the aftermath of a coup in the country's capital have attempted to consolidate their power in the region, declaring an independent nation.
April 06, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Cuban dissenters find a niche in church
Last year, as Libyan rebels fought Moammar Gadhafi, Fidel Castro took to his state-run newspaper Granma to defend the dictator as a revolutionary hero.
April 05, 2012 - The Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: 'Personhood' becomes ground for debate in Naperville
When Katie O'Connor and her husband thought about having a child through in vitro fertilization two years ago, they knew that the technique — which often results in the destruction of surplus embryos — went against the teachings of the Catholic Church in which they had been raised.
April 05, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Richard Land's rant on Trayvon Martin case stings some Southern Baptists
The Southern Baptist Convention has spent more than a decade trying to leave behind the racially divided past that created it.
April 05, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Unchristian acts distort message of Jesus Christ
THIS WEEKEND, Christians around the world will mark the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. But what has been the legacy of the man with a simple message of love and peace, who sacrificed himself for humankind more than 2,000 years ago?
April 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Catholic fund cuts off aid over groups’ affiliations
For three years now, Compañeros, a small nonprofit organization in rural southwestern Colorado, has received thousands of dollars from the Roman Catholic Church to help poor Hispanic immigrants with basic needs including access to health care and guidance on local laws.
April 05, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Outremont Easter procession cancelled due to district’s conflict with Hasidic Jews
The half-century-old Easter procession at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Montreal’s Outremont district has been cancelled, caught in the crosswinds of a conflict over faith and public space.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Romney finally puts it all together
For the first time in a competitive primary, Mitt Romney won some elusive demographics.
April 04, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Opinion: David Cameron the Christian embraces a moderate religious patriotism
When David Cameron talks about "we Christians" at a Downing Street reception, almost the last explanation that would occur to anyone is that he is being sincere.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: The two views on India’s Narendra Modi
He is widely touted as a possible future prime minister of India, but he is a pariah in much of the Western world.
April 04, 2012 - The Moscow Times
Moscow Times: Church looks for place to put its homeless tent
Snow came down Tuesday, an unwelcome and unexpected April shower, the tail end of a harsh winter that has seemingly decided to never end — temperatures are predicted to go down to minus 7 degrees Celsius on Thursday night.
April 04, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Opinion: Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Europe
Rabbi Shneur Kesselman estimates that he has been the victim of 100 or so anti-Semitic confrontations since he arrived in the southern Swedish city of Malm in 2004.
April 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Octogenarian Islamist cleric an unlikely revolutionary
At 86 years old, ghost-like, hard of hearing and dependent on eye drops to blink, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an unlikely revolutionary.
April 03, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Hip-hop echoes of an Arab Spring
Lebanon hasn’t had much in the way of an Arab Spring.
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