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July 31, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Observance of Ramadan poses challenges to Muslim athletes
With nearly three million Muslims living in Britain, the observance of Ramadan here is not generally a notable occurrence. Shops are open, businessmen go to work at the regular times and, to outsiders, life seems ordinary enough, save for the absence of eating or drinking from dawn until sunset.
July 29, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Opinion: Olympics' religious roots
When the Summer Olympics opened in London last Friday, there was a version of a religious ritual in the Olympic oath, procession of athletes and lighting of the flame.
July 25, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: On gay marriage, Europe strains to square 27 interests
When 1-year-old Kirsi Bestetti tripped and cut her lip at her grandparents’ house last summer, her mother Elisa Bestetti rushed her to the emergency room, panicky about all the blood.
July 19, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Attacks target voices of moderate Islam in central Russia
Attacks in Russia's Tatarstan republic today killed one Muslim cleric and seriously wounded a second, underscoring a rising threat to a moderate brand of Islam.
July 12, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In a France suspicious of religion, evangelicalism's message strikes a chord
Charisma Church near Paris gets 6,000 attendees most Sundays.
July 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope taps German theologian to head orthodoxy post
The pope named Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Mueller to head the Vatican's all-important orthodoxy office Monday, tapping a German theologian like himself to head the congregation he presided over for nearly a quarter-century enforcing Catholic doctrine.
June 27, 2012 - Agence France-Presse
AFP: German circumcision ruling slammed

Agence France-Presse AFP: German circumcision ruling slammed Staff 2012-06-27 A key German Muslim association on Wednesday sharply criticised a court ruling that said circumcising boys on religious grounds amounted to grievous bodily harm. "The Cologne ruling is a serious attack on religious freedom,

June 24, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Fox News reporter hired as Vatican media adviser
In an effort to shore up its communications strategy amid a widening leaks scandal in a troubled papacy, the Vatican has hired the Fox News correspondent in Rome as a senior communications adviser.
June 23, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Argument for gay marriage would also legalise incest and polygamy, claim bishops and MPs
A lobby group against gay marriage, formed by MPs and bishops, is embroiled in a row after one of its leaflets claimed that the logical argument for reforming the law would be equally applicable to the legalisation of incest and polygamy.
June 23, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Palestinians push Nativity church as Heritage site
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is becoming the church of contention, with a bid by the Palestinians to use their position as the newest members of the U.N.'s cultural arm to obtain World Heritage status for the iconic Christian site — and perhaps boost their own campaign for legitimacy.
June 23, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Opinion: Around the world, the appeal to religious freedom is being misused
What are the proper limits of religious freedom? Marianne Thieme, leader of the Party for the Animals in the Netherlands, offers this answer: “Religious freedom stops where human or animal suffering begins.”
June 19, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Vatican accuses media of "imitating Dan Brown"
The Vatican 's number 2 accused the media on Monday of trying "to imitate Dan Brown " in their coverage of the VatiLeaks scandal and said the Roman Catholic Church 's latest travails were part of the Devil's attempt to destabilize it.
June 17, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope to Irish: Child abuse by clergy 'a mystery'
Pope Benedict XVI told Irish Catholics on Sunday it is a mystery why priests and other church officials abused children entrusted in their care, undermining faith in the church "in an appalling way."
June 17, 2012 - The Telegraph
Telegraph: Will gay marriage end in divorce for church and state?
Two people meet and fall in love.
June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Germany bans Islamic Salafist organization amid raids across the country
German authorities launched a nationwide crackdown Thursday on an ultraconservative Islamic organization, raiding homes, meeting halls and mosques, while banning one related group and opening in an investigation of two others.
June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Vatican gives traditionalists proposal for reconciliation in a bid to end schism
The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a final bid to end a quarter-century of schism, offering it a special legal status in the church currently enjoyed only by the conservative Opus Dei movement.
June 13, 2012 - El Pais
El Pais: Blasphemy ain’t what it used to be
God is busy with bigger things, but the arrogance of men makes them feel obligated to defend him, Penal Code in hand.
June 12, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Straight from the atheist's mouth - but Dawkins got it theologically wrong
JOHN WATERS wrote tellingly in The Irish Times last Friday that he would personally find it difficult to discuss transubstantiation with his best friend, “not because I have problems with the doctrine but because such matters are impossible to discuss in the language we use for politics, shopping and sex”.
June 12, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Church of England objects to gay marriage plan
The Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales formally objected Tuesday to the government's proposal to permit gay marriages, both asserting that their historic understanding is that marriage is the union of a woman and a man.
June 12, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Gay marriage plan could divorce Church from State
The Church of England faces its biggest rupture with the State in 500 years under government plans to legalise gay marriage.
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