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March 13, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto Star: Toronto Jewish community starts security patrol system to combat hate crimes
With Toronto’s Jews routinely identified as one of the city’s most victimized racial or ethnic groups, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs plans to form a bold new citizen security system aimed at curtailing hate crimes in the community.
March 12, 2012 - The Independent
Independent: Military clears army doctor over 'virginity test' on Cairo protesters
An Egyptian army doctor, who was the only person to stand trial accused of forcing female protesters to undergo "virginity tests" after demonstrations last year, has been cleared.
March 12, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Keeper of Islamic flame rises as Egypt’s new decisive voice
For more than a dozen years, Khairat el-Shater guided his family of 10 children, his sprawling business empire and Egypt’s largest Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood, all from a prison cell.
March 12, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Fired NASA computer specialist alleges discrimination over his belief in intelligent design
A computer specialist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is going to court over allegations that he was wrongfully terminated because of his belief in intelligent design.
March 12, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: St Petersburg bans 'homosexual propaganda'
Twenty years after homosexuality was decriminalised in Russia, anti-gay legislation is making a rapid comeback, with St Petersburg becoming the latest city to ban "homosexual propaganda".
March 12, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Russian Orthodox Church: Ban homosexuality 'propaganda' among minors
A controversial new law enacted in St. Petersburg and three other Russian regions, aimed at banning "homosexual propaganda aimed at minors," has members of Russia's besieged gay community worrying that all progress toward civil rights for sexual minorites in recent years might be thrown into reverse.
March 11, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Iraqi youth panicked by reports of killings
Panic is spreading among young people in Iraq after reports by Iraqi media and rights groups that dozens of people have been threatened or killed in the past few weeks because they are suspected of being gay or because they dress in a distinctive, gothic style known as emo.
March 11, 2012 - Indianapolis Star
Indy Star: Religion vs. regulation: Indiana's faith-based day cares caught in between
At Westside Church of the Nazarene's child-care center, Bible time is set aside each day for the 2- to 5-year-olds.
March 11, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: 3 abortion bills facing NH House votes
Abortion opponents call a bill before New Hampshire’s House “informed consent’’ because it requires women to wait 24 hours and be given information on fetal development, but pro-choice groups say it is insulting to require women to wait and would require biased counseling.
March 11, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Attack may derail effort to force Taliban into talks
The outrage from the back-to-back episodes of the Koran burning and the killing on Sunday of at least 16 Afghan civilians imperils what the Obama administration once saw as an orderly plan for 2012: to speed the training of Afghan forces so that they can take the lead in combat missions, all while drawing the Taliban into negotiations to end more than a decade of constant war.
March 10, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Hot and bothered: the rise of evangelicalism is shaking up England's established church
EVER since the 18th century, England’s established church has harboured a suspicion of religious enthusiasm.
March 10, 2012 - The Irish Times
Irish Times: Ireland rejects UN call to end schools discriminating on religious grounds
THE GOVERNMENT has rejected recommendations from UN member states that it should eliminate religious discrimination in access to education.
March 10, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Al-Qaeda makes ‘alarming’ advances in Yemen, U.N. envoy warns
A reinvigorated al-Qaeda has made “alarming” advances in Yemen, expanding its military control over several southern towns and launching a series of brazen attacks that threaten the U.S.-backed political transition there, a senior U.N. envoy warned the Security Council in a confidential briefing last week.
March 09, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Culture war brews between new Islamist movement and secularists in post-revolution Tunisia
Every Friday, bearded men in shin-length robes demonstrate in Tunisia’s capital against perceived insults to Islam in a country once known for its aggressive secularism.
March 09, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: India eyes Muslims left behind by quota system
Along the narrow lane known as Khadar Wallah, Muslims and low-caste Hindus have lived side by side for years, bound by poverty, if not religion.
March 09, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Why is Santorum losing the Catholic vote?
It’s easy to stereotype the American electorate, to make assumptions about which politicians should appeal to which voters.
March 08, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Interfaith leaders join Muslims in opposition to NYPD surveillance tactics in New Jersey
Some high-ranking religious leaders joined with New Jersey Muslims on Thursday in demanding reassurance from state authorities that no one is being spied on because of their religion.
March 08, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Abortion bill brings issue to the forefront in California
As proposals to tighten abortion laws work their way through statehouses across the country, California lawmakers are set to consider legislation aimed at giving more women access to first-term pregnancy terminations.
March 08, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In secular Britain, a clash over public prayer
Perhaps the locals should have anticipated sparks on a town council stocked not only with a practicing pagan, a staunch atheist and an agnostic former stripper but also two evangelical Christians and a Methodist church organist.
March 08, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Opinion: Turkey: Nation of multiple faiths
After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to guarantee that the rule of law is applied equally for all Turkish citizens, regardless of individuals’ religion, ethnicity, or language.
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