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February 08, 2012 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Church of England reaches compromise on women bishops
The archbishops of Canterbury and York has avoided humiliation in the Church of England's law-making body, the General Synod, by putting off a split over the ordination of women bishops.
January 27, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Women have been an essential component of the uprising in Syria
On Jan. 10, while President Bashar Assad addressed his supporters in Damascus, the Syrian authorities handed the tiny tortured body of a 4-month old baby girl to her uncle in Homs.
January 14, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Israelis facing a seismic rift over role of women
In the three months since the Israeli Health Ministry awarded a prize to a pediatrics professor for her book on hereditary diseases common to Jews, her experience at the awards ceremony has become a rallying cry.
January 05, 2012 - The Wall Street Journal
WSJ: From back of the bus, Israeli women fight segregation
For years, Israeli women have been pressured into moving to the rear of public buses serving strictly religious Jews. Now, in confrontations reminiscent of the era of Rosa Parks, women are pushing back.
January 02, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: At least 50 killed in ethnic clashes in Nigeria
Clashes between rival ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria’s Ebonyi state on Saturday killed at least 50 people, the state government spokesman has said, and according to police, mobile units had been sent to the state to quell the violence.
January 01, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope Benedict XVI: ‘Young people’ need to be ‘builders of peace’
Pope Benedict XVI in his New Year’s homily Sunday praised young people as key to securing a future of hope despite what he called “shadows on the horizon of today’s world.”
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 30, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: In Alabama, a church sees its Latino brethren vanish
The small group, six Mexican men and a woman from Guatemala, sang No. 619 in the hymnal with a force that belied their number:
December 29, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Saudi women to run, vote without male approval
Women in Saudi Arabia will not need a male guardian's approval to run or vote in municipal elections in 2015, when women will also run for office for the first time, a Saudi official has said.
November 22, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: For women in Libya, a long road to rights
The women of Libya are at a stage between hopes for more rights and fears about the possibility of civil war.
November 12, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: As ultra-Orthodox flex muscle, Israel feminists see a backsliding
When public buses rumble to a stop in some of Jerusalem's religious neighborhoods, women often dutifully enter by the rear door and sit in the back, leaving the front for men.
November 10, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Arab Christians, minorities, reshaping US enclaves
Jordanian immigrants take Communion at an Arabic-language Mass in Albuquerque.
November 09, 2011 - The New York Times
NYT: Ahead of vote, Egypt’s parties and skepticism are growing
At the rally kicking off his campaign for Parliament, Basem Kamel, a core member of the youthful council that helped spur the end of the Mubarak government, wrestled with his stump speech calling for civilian rule.
November 08, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Gender segregation on rise in Israel
Posters depicting women have become rare in the streets of Israel's capital. In some areas women have been shunted onto separate sidewalks, and buses and health clinics have been gender-segregated.
November 06, 2011 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Abortion’s veil of silence threatens Ugandan women
Health activist Denis Kibera has seen women bleeding to death from illegal abortions. He has seen women dying after quack doctors used crude equipment to kill their fetuses.
November 05, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Yemen uprising binds women from many walks of life
Early in Yemen's uprising, about 20 women with banners demanding equal rights marched into the heart of the capital, joining the thousands who were calling for the ouster of the president. They were greeted with cheers.
November 05, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Yemen uprising binds women from many walks of life
Early in Yemen's uprising, about 20 women with banners demanding equal rights marched into the heart of the capital, joining the thousands who were calling for the ouster of the president. They were greeted with cheers.
October 25, 2011 - Common Ground News Service
Common Ground: Women of the Arab Spring: their issues are everyone’s issues
The capture and killing of Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, on-going demonstrations for an end to the oppressive reigns of Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, and new elections in Tunisia show that one thing has not changed in the Arab Spring – change itself.
September 25, 2011 - Los Angeles Times
LA Times: Saudi Arabia: Reforms will allow women to vote but not drive
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia surprised his ultraconservative nation Sunday by announcing bold reforms that for the first time give women the right to vote, run for local office and serve on the Shura Council, the king's advisory board.
September 25, 2011 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope in Germany urges spiritual renewal
Pope Benedict XVI issued a strong call for spiritual renewal among Germans, as he wrapped up a visit to his homeland in which he addressed parliament and met with victims of clerical abuse.
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