Religion News on the Web
Selected religion-related news from around the Web
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.
September 22, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: 2 Islamist militias disband in Libya amid anger over killings
Two Islamist militias in the eastern city of Darnah announced Saturday that they were disbanding, bowing to a wave of antimilitia anger that has swept parts of Libya since a deadly attack on an American diplomatic mission on Sept. 11.
September 22, 2012
- The Times
The Times: Copts prepare to put their faith in new Pope
The riots and violence provoked across the Muslim world by the anti-Islamic film said to have been made by an Egyptian Copt in America have left millions of Egyptian Christians fearful of a violent backlash against their community.
September 20, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Prophet film puts spotlight on U.S. copts
The anti-Islamic movie trailer inflaming the Middle East opens with Muslims ransacking a Christian medical clinic and then segues into a flashback of Muhammad’s life. “Set the place on fire! We’ll burn out these forsaken Christians!” cries one Muslim character.
September 20, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Worries over violence against churches in Israel
After a series of attacks by vandals on Christian holy sites in Israel, normally tight-lipped Roman Catholic officials are beginning to speak out, publicly appealing to authorities to take a stronger stand against the violence.
September 19, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: New French cartoons inflame prophet film tensions
A French magazine published vulgar caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, brandishing its right to free speech amid global tensions over a movie insulting to Islam.
September 19, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Some Religious leaders see a threat as Europe grows more secular
This sleepy town not far from the Czech border, in a hilly corner of Catholic Bavaria, is an unlikely place to find an active synagogue, and an even unlikelier focal point for a controversy that some see as a threat to religious tolerance in Europe and even the place of Jews in Germany.
September 17, 2012
- Reuters
Reuters: As Muslims rage, Pakistan scrutinised by churches
With Muslim leaders in many countries calling for a global law barring what they call insults to Islam, the main non-Catholic world Christian grouping on Monday said just such a law in Pakistan is used to persecute other religions.
September 16, 2012
- The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: After film, push strengthens for blasphemy clause in Egypt's constitution
Last week's protests in reaction to an anti-Islam YouTube clip have led to Egyptian demands that the United States prosecute the filmmakers and may give a decisive push to an effort to enshrine in the Egyptian constitution the criminalization of blasphemy, or insulting religious figures.
September 16, 2012
- The New York Times
NYT: Cultural clash fuels Muslims angry at online video
Stepping from the cloud of tear gas in front of the American Embassy here, Khaled Ali repeated the urgent question that he said justified last week’s violent protests at United States outposts around the Muslim world.
September 16, 2012
- The Associated Press
AP: Murfreesboro mosque response not typical in Tenn.
The two-year struggle between the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro and a group of residents who have fought a losing battle to keep it from being built paints a distorted picture of Muslim life in Tennessee, where several other mosques have opened in recent years with little or no controversy.