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January 31, 2012 - Deseret News
Deseret News: Food storage important to more than Mormons
Two checks were lost in the mail, and Courtney Havenwood was starting to panic.
January 26, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Alain de Botton reveals plans for 'temple to atheism' in heart of London
Plans to build a £1m "temple for atheists" among the international banks and medieval church spires of the City of London have sparked a clash between two of Britain's most prominent non-believers.
January 14, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Shiite pilgrims defy bombings in Iraq to mark Arbaeen
Millions of Shiite Muslim pilgrims, intent on carrying out a commemoration denied to them here for decades, are defying ongoing bombings to converge on the holy city of Karbala.
January 12, 2012 - The Australian
Australian: Salman Rushdie brushes off call for festival 'blasphemy' ban
The vice-chancellor of Darul Uloom Deoband, one of India's most influential Islamic seminaries, has called on the government to deny the Indian-born writer a visa to attend the Jaipur Literary Festival over the insult caused to Muslims by his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.
January 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: After losing a lawsuit, taking their appeal to God
They have tried letter-writing, petitions and a lawsuit, all to no avail. So now the Christian congregations that are weeks away from expulsion from New York City’s public schools are focusing on more-religious tools in their arsenal: prayer, fasting and repentance.
January 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Kentucky Amish men face jail time for refusing to use orange triangles on horse-drawn buggies
On Jacob Gingerich's farm in western Kentucky, there is no phone or electricity for his family of 12 children.
January 07, 2012 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia Inquirer: Churches struggle with declining congregations
For a while, it seemed as if the new year would be anything but happy for the members of St. James Episcopal Church in Prospect Park.
January 06, 2012 - The Toronto Star
The Star: An Ethiopian Christmas
The scene felt like it was straight out of a fairytale book from other lands.
January 05, 2012 - New York Daily News
NY Daily News: Infinity NY Church fears longtime center home is threatened by New York City Housing Authority policy
Clergy who use New York City Housing Authority community centers are in fear that they will be banned after receiving notice that their agreements to use the spaces are being reviewed.
January 05, 2012 - The Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat Gazette: Magistrate advises: Ban on long beards in prison to continue
Acknowledging that the issue was a "pretty close call," a magistrate judge on Wednesday said he will recommend that a Muslim inmate be required to shave his beard despite the inmate's religious objections.
January 02, 2012 - Newsweek
Newsweek: Israel's ultra-orthodox problem
Rachel Weinstein calls it her Rosa Parks moment.
January 01, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jews dress up as concentration camp victims in protest, drawing sharp criticism
Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism inside Israel’s insular ultra-Orthodox community.
December 31, 2011 - The Economist
The Economist: In the beginning were the words
Religions invite stereotypes, holy texts even more so. Non-Muslims often see Islam as a faith followed by people who hew so closely to an unchanging set of words that they ignore awkward new facts sooner than contradict its message.
December 30, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: The surprising success of the Confession app
When they launched their first Roman Catholic mobile phone application early this year, the founders of the Indiana-based startup Little i Apps had hoped their product would reach a small, niche market of fellow Catholics.
December 27, 2011 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Religious limits on women spur controversy in Israel
A sign outside a row of synagogues directing women to walk on the other side of the street has turned this town near Jerusalem into a front line of a raging national debate about the imposition of strict social codes by ultra-Orthodox zealots.
December 27, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Israeli girl, 8, at center of tension over religious extremism
The latest battleground in Israel’s struggle over religious extremism covers little more than a square mile of this Jewish city situated between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, and it has the unexpected public face of a blond, bespectacled second-grade girl.
December 26, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Israeli girl's plight highlights Jewish extremism
A shy 8-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel's latest religious war.
December 25, 2011 - USA Today
USA Today: For many, 'Losing My Religion' isn't just a song: It's life
When Ben Helton signed up for an online dating service, under "religion" he called himself "spiritually apathetic."
December 24, 2011 - Reuters
Reuters: Indian courts challenge Facebook, Google content: report
Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other Internet firms have been ordered by two Indian courts to remove material deemed religiously offensive, the latest fight in a growing battle over web content in the world's largest democracy.
December 13, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Archdiocese can demolish SoHo church, court rules
A nearly five-year struggle over the future of a Roman Catholic parish in SoHo that began with a sudden padlock on the church doors ended on Tuesday, when New York State’s highest court affirmed that the Archdiocese of New York had the right to demolish the shuttered building despite opposition from the former parishioners.
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