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December 06, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Vatican university hosts unusual tattoo conference
Tattooed mummies in ancient Egypt, Crusaders who branded their foreheads with crosses, and New Zealand's inked Maori warriors were fodder for an unusual conference at a Vatican university Tuesday on the role of tattoos in shaping identity.
December 01, 2011 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Post-Gazette: Amish sect leader, 3 others to face trial
A federal magistrate Wednesday night ordered the leader of a breakaway Amish sect, along with two of his sons and a son-in-law, held for trial on federal hate crimes charges in connection with a series of beard-cutting attacks against other Amish across Ohio.
December 01, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Megachurch draws ’em in with free coffee, big screens and a rock band
In increasingly secular Canada, how do you bring people to God?
December 01, 2011 - The News & Observer
News & Observer: Pilgrimage passes through Durham
Fide Hordaz Valencia couldn't talk about the children and family she left behind in Mexico as she stood waiting on Hillsborough Road.
December 01, 2011 - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: World AIDS Day marked by search for an ideal
The Rev. Pat Lee will never forget the day in 1985 when a nurse urged him to scour his hands with bleach after anointing a man stricken by a mysterious virus.
November 30, 2011 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Relic of Virgin Mary causes Moscow's worst traffic jams in years
The blood pressure of Moscow’s motorists has dropped to almost safe levels now that the Belt of the Virgin Mary has left town for its home in the Greek monastic complex of Mount Athos.
November 27, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Female Orthodox Jewish EMTs make unorthodox pitch to work with all-male ambulance corps in NYC
Most Orthodox Jewish women avoid touching men except direct relatives.
November 26, 2011 - The Guardian
Guardian: Jerusalem dance studio is the new frontline in battle for secular liberty
The concentration on the dancers' faces was clear through the large windows. In leggings and layers of loose tops, the young women and men arched and spun gracefully as they rehearsed Babel, the contemporary dance show currently performing in Jerusalem.
November 26, 2011 - The Oregonian
Oregonian: Eastside Portland Lutherans gather to face uncertain future
The congregation, 350 voices strong, attacks the first hymn with full-throated determination: Lord of all, of church and kingdom, in an age of change and doubt, keep us faithful to the gospel; help us work your purpose out. 
November 25, 2011 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Saving the world — an article of eco-faith
Would Jesus have gorged himself this Thanksgiving on turkeys laced with sodium, kept the stove on all day, served imported pears or filled his garbage with plastic bags?
November 24, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope’s envoy for cult-like group linked to disgraced Legion of Christ says rules invalid
The pope’s envoy running the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order says the 1,000-plus rules governing the cult-like life of some of its members are invalid and will be whittled down to a core set of norms.
November 24, 2011 - Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Democrat-Gazette: Author studies why young Christians leave church
David Kinnaman knows statistics. As president of the research company the Barna Group he tracks trends in matters of faith.
November 23, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: In Russian chill, waiting hours for touch of the holy: Virgin Mary belt relic draws crowds in Moscow
From morning all through the night, tens of thousands of Russians have been lining up since Saturday in the cold with just one aim: to kiss a glass-covered reliquary that they believe holds the Virgin Mary’s belt.
November 21, 2011 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Islam offers a third way in Pakistan, Tunisia
During the worldwide depression of the mid-1930s, the poet and Islamic modernist Muhammad Iqbal, often called Pakistan’s spiritual founder, wrote a poem dramatizing the inadequacies of Western political and economic systems.
November 20, 2011 - The Tennessean
Tennessean: Some fear megachurch bubble may soon burst
The finest church that Rolus Smith ever knew was the Lord’s Chapel.
November 20, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: From Pakistani slum, 5,000 seat church rises, showing resilience of community under fire
Pakistan's tiny and downtrodden Christian community thought big when constructing its latest church — a domed, three-story building that towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country.
November 19, 2011 - The Economist
Economist: The right to be hidden
SOON after the liberation of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, this correspondent met a woman sporting a niqab, or face veil, along with a floor-length black dress and black gloves.
November 18, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: O.C. Catholic diocese to buy bankrupt Crystal Cathedral
In the end, 2,000 years of tradition carried the day.
November 16, 2011 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: Church turns to higher authority in zoning battle
Sundays at Faith Fellowship Church, Pastor Gary Mortara calls on God's help to heal the sick, repair torn marriages and rescue lost souls.
November 15, 2011 - The Guardian
Guardian: Jerusalem mayor battles ultra-orthodox groups over women-free billboards
Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, has pitted himself against the city's swelling ranks of ultra-orthodox extremists by demanding that local police enable women to reclaim their position in the public domain.
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