Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
December 02, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Missouri bishop’s conviction leaves clergy divided
In the three months since Bishop Robert W. Finn became the first American prelate convicted of failing to report a pedophile priest, lay people and victims’ advocates have repeatedly called for his resignation.
November 30, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Some wish Islam would inform climate debate
At Friday prayers in Qatar's most popular mosque, the imam discussed the civil war in Syria, the unrest in Egypt and the U.N. endorsement of an independent state of Palestine.
November 19, 2012
- Los Angeles Times
LAT: Ever misunderstood, Sikhs savor teaching moments
The first slide professor Nirvikar Singh flashed on his PowerPoint showed the faces of six Sikh worshipers gunned down the previous month in Oak Creek, Wis., by a man with white supremacist ties.
November 10, 2012
- The Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Focus on the Family head takes conciliatory tone after election
As the head of Focus on the Family, Jim Daly might be considered one of the nation's leading culture warriors — a title that certainly applied to his predecessor, James Dobson, who founded the organization and built it into a powerhouse of the conservative evangelical movement.
November 09, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: A vague role for religion in Egyptian draft constitution
After months of fierce debate over the place of Islam in government, the assembly drafting a new constitution for Egypt has settled on a compromise that opens the door to more religion in governance but mainly guarantees that the issue will continue to roil politics, the Parliament and the courts for many years to come.
November 09, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Anglican Church's new leader vows to seek reconciliation
Bishop Justin Welby, the new archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual head of the world’s estimated 77 million Anglicans, pledged Friday to seek reconciliation in some of the most contentious issues of gender and sexuality that have split the Anglican Communion.
November 07, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: For Mormons, a cautious step toward mainstream acceptance
As a Mormon boy, Daniel C. Peterson grew up hearing stories about the persecution of his ancestors, beginning with his great-great-great-great-grandfather, who was chased out of Missouri, then Illinois, before he died trekking across the Great Plains to reach this rugged land.
November 05, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Coptic church chooses pope who rejects political role
A blindfolded 6-year-old reached into a glass bowl on Sunday to pick the first new Coptic pope in more than 40 years, a patriarch who promises a new era of integration for Egypt's Christian minority as it grapples with a wave of sectarian violence, new Islamist domination of politics, and internal pressures for reform.
November 03, 2012
- The Economist
Economist: Contagion of discontent
IT IS more than a century since cartographers drew east Africa’s coastal strip as a single territory.