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October 08, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In Missouri, clergy in the fray of Akin race, seeing it as start of a ‘battle for the soul’ of GOP
Nearly 400 Missouri pastors gathered at the podium of a hotel ballroom recently to pray over the kneeling figure of Rep. Todd Akin, a Senate candidate whose campaign had been pronounced dead by national Republican leaders weeks before.
October 07, 2012 - Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel: Clash over same-sex marriage motivates voters
President Barack Obama sparked a burst of enthusiasm from Florida's gay and lesbian voters and a backlash from conservative Christians in May when he proclaimed unequivocal support for same-sex marriage.
October 07, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Hundreds of pastors back political candidates, defy tax rules
Baptist Pastor Mark Harris stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics.
October 06, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Voters in Florida are set to weigh in on two contentious ballot questions
n a year in which most states have steered clear of contentious ballot initiatives, Florida voters are facing two proposed constitutional amendments — one on abortion, the other on the separation of church and state — that could have far-reaching repercussions.
October 05, 2012 - USA Today
USA Today: Europe's fight over free speech flares up again
Bans on an anti-Islam video. Forbidding protests against it. Arrests for blasphemy.
October 05, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Christians march in Jerusalem in support of Israel
Waving blue and white Israeli flags, thousands of evangelical Christians from around the world filled streets of downtown Jerusalem on Thursday in a show of support for the Jewish state.
October 05, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Egypt's hardline Islamist party unravels
Internal feuds are threatening to unravel the political party of Egypt's ultraconservative Islamist Salafis, as pragmatists try to shake off the control of hardline clerics who reject any compromise in their stark, puritanical version of Islam.
October 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: German Catholic Church links tax to the sacraments
It is a paradox of modern Germany that church and state remain so intimately tied.
October 04, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Devout Israeli Jews moving to Arab-Jewish cities
Orthodox Jewish Israelis, the driving force of the West Bank settlement movement, have begun to turn their attention inward to Israel itself, moving into Arab areas of mixed cities in an attempt to cement the Jewish presence there.
October 04, 2012 - Reuters
Reuters: Anti-abortion activists prepare for battle in Ireland
Patricia Casey's views on abortion were formed at the age of 12 when she came across an image of what looked to her like a torn-apart baby - an aborted foetus.
October 03, 2012 - The Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel: Amendment 8 pits religious groups against backers of church-state separation
Dead almost 120 years, James Blaine — the GOP presidential candidate in 1884 — is making an appearance in Florida's 2012 election.
October 02, 2012 - Des Moines Register
Des Moines Register: Ryan courts Catholics during Dubuque stop
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan’s visit Monday night to a Catholic college in this historically Catholic city underscores the competition in this presidential race over a religious group whose political views cross party lines in key areas.
October 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Liberals struggling to prevent Islamist domination in writing of Egypt’s new constitution
Islamists are seeking to enshrine in Egypt’s long-awaited new constitution a number of articles that secularists and liberals fear would bring theocratic rule and severely set back civil liberties, including provisions that could empower clerics to review laws and would stipulate that women’s rights cannot violate Shariah law or “family duties.”
October 01, 2012 - The Daily Star
Daily Star: Armenian Christians torn in Syria’s civil war
Armenian Christians in Aleppo are being dragged in to the increasingly sectarian civil war in the country, straining the leadership’s policy of neutrality.
September 29, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Top Islamic group calls for ban on offending Prophet Muhammad, equating it with hate speech
The head of a leading Islamic organization Saturday called for a global ban on offending the character of the Prophet Muhammad, saying that it should be equated with hate speech.
September 27, 2012 - NPR
NPR: Catholic bishops ramp up same-sex marriage fight
When the archbishop of Newark, N.J., said that people who support same-sex marriage should refrain from communion, he was just one of several bishops taking aim at such unions.
September 27, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Christian right election-year rally set for Philly
Christian conservatives who blame "moral depravity" for everything from the recession to terrorism are converging on Philadelphia for a rally they hope will spark a religious revival as Election Day nears.
September 26, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Uruguay lawmakers narrowly approve legalizing abortion, ground-breaking step in Latin America
Legislators have voted in Uruguay by a razor-thin margin to legalize abortion.
September 26, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Republicans intensify drive to win over Jewish voters
Using billboards, television advertisements and finely honed voter lists, Republicans here and in other battleground states have intensified an effort to lure a small but potentially significant group of new or wavering voters from President Obama.
September 25, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: NYC schools dispensing morning-after pill to girls
It's a campaign believed to be unprecedented in its size and aggressiveness: New York City is dispensing the morning-after pill to girls as young as 14 at more than 50 public high schools, sometimes even before they have had sex.
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