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March 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: For Egypt’s women, equality will take a second revolution
A year ago, on International Women’s Day, a few hundred Egyptian women paraded through Cairo’s Tahrir Square only to be booed, spat on and jostled by several dozen men.
March 01, 2012 - The Guardian
The Guardian: Accusations of witchcraft are part of growing pattern of child abuse in UK
When 15-year-old Kristy Bamu left his parents in Paris on 16 December 2010, he was looking forward to spending the Christmas holidays with his siblings, visiting their sister and her boyfriend in London.
February 29, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Young Israelis on mission to improve their country's image
A GROUP of eight young Israeli people have come to Ireland to tell their stories in a bid to improve their country’s image.
February 27, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: The women who oppose female bishops
The Church of England is, in its own confounding and impenetrable way, preparing to welcome women as bishops.
February 24, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Women’s spring: Is Lebanon ready for a feminist political party?
For all its virtues, Lebanese society continues to be heavily influenced by patriarchal culture, making it a daunting challenge for women to achieve political influence and power. Yet change may be in the offing.
February 24, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Focus on social issues could shape battle for women
Rick Santorum creates a stir by speaking out against prenatal testing. Virginia’s governor and legislature get caught up in an emotional debate over requiring women seeking abortions to undergo an ultrasound.
February 15, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Gay marriage a tough sell with blacks in Maryland
As a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland hurtles toward a vote in the legislature this week, a coalition lobbying for its passage has focused much of its efforts on a group of Democrats who could potentially scuttle its success: African-Americans.
February 10, 2012 - Agence France-Presse
AFP: Turkish PM criticized for 'religious youth' remark
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's comment his government wants to "raise a religious youth" has touched a nerve in society, fuelling debates over an alleged "hidden agenda" to Islamicize secular Turkey.
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.
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