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May 18, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: Turkey's political imams: The Gulenists fight back
In a recent sermon Fethullah Gulen, Turkey’s most powerful Muslim cleric, preached against hubris. Delivered in rural Pennsylvania, where Mr Gulen lives in self-imposed exile, it was broadcast from his website with an electrifying effect. Was the holy man alluding to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister?
May 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope decries more concern over banks than people; leads Vatican rally, meets with Merkel
Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church’s moral conscience, hours after he held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with Germany’s leader.
May 17, 2013 - The Times of London
The Times: Britain is losing its faith in church, census shows
The number of British-born Christians is falling steeply while a youthful Muslim population is on the rise, according to census figures published yesterday.
May 17, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Pentecostals praise God in ‘language of angels’
Pastor Ronald Rice is pacing and sweating, roaring and crying as he warns his west Salt Lake City Pentecostal congregation about what he calls the "dangers of drifting."
May 17, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Seminary graduates not always ministering from the pulpit
Alethea Allen, a Virginia resident, graduated this week from Wesley Theological Seminary in Northwest Washington after years of divinity classes. But she has no intention of becoming a minister.
May 14, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Christian churches back Jews facing anti-Semitism in Hungary
When Hungarian radical right-wingers rallied against a Jewish conference in Budapest in early May, a well-known Protestant pastor hid behind the stage while his wife stepped up to the podium to denounce Jews and Israel.
May 13, 2013 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Missionaries urge Korea to lift travel ban
Kim Jin-dae hoped he could persuade the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to lift its ban on travel to countries it deemed as too dangerous for Korean passport holders, but he knew better.
May 13, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Africa, Asia See Boom in Priests as Europe Withers
The number of Catholic priests in Africa and Asia has shot up over the past decade while decreasing in Europe, mirroring trends in the numbers of Catholic faithful that helped lead to the election of Pope Francis as the first non-European pope in over a millennium.
May 08, 2013 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Islamists rely on TV sheiks to woo the masses in Egypt
Secular youth used Facebook and Twitter two years ago to help topple President Hosni Mubarak from power, but now Salafi Islamists are gaining sway in Egypt because of TV sheiks like Khaled Abdullah.
May 08, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Is there a God? The Vatican invites Mexicans to discuss.
A Vatican envoy has arrived in Mexico with a message: God is not dead.
May 07, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: France struggles to fight radical Islam in its jails
In France, the path to radical Islam often begins with a minor offence that throws a young man into an overcrowded, violent jail and produces a hardened convert ready for jihad.
May 06, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Iran warns Syrian rebels after report of shrine desecration
Iran’s Shiite leaders warned of regional sectarian conflict after reports that Syrian rebels raided a Shiite shrine in a suburb of Damascus last week, destroying the site and making off with the remains of the revered Shiite figure buried there.
May 06, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Anti-blasphemy protests in Bangladesh turn violent
Violence erupted across Bangladesh on Monday as Islamist fundamentalists demanding passage of an anti-blasphemy law clashed with security forces, leaving a trail of property damage and at least 22 people dead after a second day of unrest.
May 05, 2013 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: For some Baptists, the name of the church is hindrance to saving souls
After 87 years, the University Baptist Church of Coral Gables recently shed its name for something it felt was more forward looking — Christ Journey.
May 03, 2013 - The Oregonian
Oregonian: Maitripa College invites Dalai Lama to Portland -- and he accepts
Michael Ium drove from Toronto to Portland to study Tibetan Buddhism at a college he'd never seen in a city he'd never visited.
May 02, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Fear begets fear in Myanmar: Citizens take on security as Buddhist extremism, violence spread
They have seen how the troubles start from the smallest things. They have seen the police powerless before mobs fired with religious zeal and armed with bricks and swords.
May 02, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Struggling Catholic schools strategize to draw new students
For years, headlines about Catholic schools in the United States have told gloomy tales of falling enrollment and multiple closings.
May 02, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: With Benedict's return, Vatican experiment begins
When Benedict XVI, the pope emeritus, returned to Vatican City on Thursday, two months after his retirement, he inaugurated a living arrangement as unusual as it may be unpredictable.
April 28, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Iraq revokes licenses of Al Jazeera and 9 other TV channels
Iraq’s government on Sunday revoked the operating licenses of Al Jazeera and nine other television channels, saying that they were inciting sectarian conflict.
April 28, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Liberation theologians welcome Pope Francis who they see embracing a church for the poor
A new pope from Latin America known for ministering to the poor in his country’s slums is raising the hopes of advocates of liberation theology, whose leftist social activism had alarmed previous pontiffs.
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