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March 24, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Little Mosque on the Prairie: concept was bigger than the show
Before Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on CBC in 2007, there were strategic meetings to discuss marketing and promotion.
March 24, 2012 - Agence France-Presse
AFP: Thousands of U.S. atheists turn out for 'Reason Rally'
Thousands of atheists, agnostics and other non-believers turned out in the US capital on Saturday to celebrate their rejection of the idea of God and to claim a bigger place in public life.
March 24, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Where angels fear to tread: evangelicals are swooping on long-ignored regions in Mexico
POPE BENEDICT XVI will arrive in Mexico on March 23rd to spend three days preaching mainly to the converted.
March 22, 2012 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Bill purports to protect schools when students pray, express faith
In the wake of a number of lawsuits over keeping religion out of school, a Tennessee representative is advancing a bill that seeks to protect districts when students pray openly or make other expressions of faith.
March 22, 2012 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: US panel on religious freedom reports Cuban violations
A week before Pope Benedict XVI visits Cuba, a U.S. government panel on religious freedom has alleged “serious” violations on the island, including arrests of pastors and “pressure to prohibit democracy and human rights activists” from church activities.
March 22, 2012 - Religion News Service
RNS: Anti-Shariah movement loses steam in state legislatures
At this point in 2011, 22 state legislatures had either passed or were considering bills to prohibit judges from considering either Islamic law, known as Shariah, or foreign law in their decisions.
March 22, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Allegations of opulence refocus attention on TBN, world's largest Christian broadcaster
Televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have faced plenty of mountains building their religious broadcast empire — among them allegations of a homosexual tryst and a prolonged battle with the Federal Communications Commission — but the most recent attack on the founders of Trinity Broadcasting Network comes from their own flesh and blood.
March 22, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Immigration, marriage laws leave same-sex couples in limbo
Love may cross oceans and borders, but tens of thousands of same-sex couples in the United States live under the threat of separation because federal law prohibits immigration authorities from treating them the same as married opposite-sex couples.
March 22, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Immigration issues touch many denominations
The Bible tells its readers to obey the law, but it also tells them to welcome strangers and foreigners.
March 22, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy Newspapers: In macho Mexico, a woman aims for the presidency
In a society that clings to macho ways, Mexican voters find themselves for the first time mulling a field of presidential candidates that includes a woman.
March 21, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Md. Senate panel considers abortion-reporting bill
Proponents of a bill to require hospitals and abortion providers to report the number of pregnancies they terminate argue the measure would improve women’s health care.
March 21, 2012 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: Evangelical states sketchy for Romney
Mitt Romney’s lopsided victory in Illinois this week showed again that he’s hard to beat in states with more moderate, less evangelical-minded voters — a good sign for the former Massachusetts governor when that describes most of the big prizes left on the Republican primary schedule.
March 20, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Albany boosts private schools
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers have proposed increasing public funding for religious and private schools, potentially reversing years of cuts and handing the Roman Catholic Church a political victory.
March 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Rick Santorum courts conservative Christians as evangelicals embrace him
When a nationally influential evangelical leader gathered dozens of pastors at his home church to hear from a presidential candidate, he had a simple message: Rick Santorum is one of us, and your parishioners should vote for him.
March 19, 2012 - The Miami Herald
Miami Herald: Many hope Pope Benedict will address tough issues in Cuba
For centuries, pilgrims have come to the Our Lady of Charity shrine with wishes for a cure for ill health, a better economy, and improved relationships.
March 19, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: The Pope's Cuba gamble
With only a week to go until Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to make the second papal visit to Cuba in 14 years, joyful anticipation ought to be buoying the island's Christians.
March 19, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Supreme Court refuses church-state case involving child sex abuse by clergy
The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a case challenging the use of the First Amendment’s separation of church and state as a shield to block a negligence lawsuit against a Roman Catholic archdiocese that hired and supervised a priest accused of being a pedophile.
March 19, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Supreme Court stays out of dispute over Christian campus groups' challenge to Calif. policy
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a request by Christian groups on a college campus to allow them to limit membership based on religious beliefs.
March 19, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Rick Santorum has embraced Spanish priest behind devout Catholic group Opus Dei
In January 2002, prominent Catholics from around the world gathered in Rome to celebrate the Spanish priest who founded one of the church's most conservative and devout groups, Opus Dei.
March 19, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Cardinal Dolan's contraception fight with Obama
Just inside the heavy front door of the 19th-century neo-Gothic mansion at 452 Madison Avenue, the official residence of Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York, rests a telling clue about the resident’s personality.
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