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April 04, 2012 - The Guardian
Guardian: Opinion: David Cameron the Christian embraces a moderate religious patriotism
When David Cameron talks about "we Christians" at a Downing Street reception, almost the last explanation that would occur to anyone is that he is being sincere.
April 04, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: The two views on India’s Narendra Modi
He is widely touted as a possible future prime minister of India, but he is a pariah in much of the Western world.
April 04, 2012 - The Moscow Times
Moscow Times: Church looks for place to put its homeless tent
Snow came down Tuesday, an unwelcome and unexpected April shower, the tail end of a harsh winter that has seemingly decided to never end — temperatures are predicted to go down to minus 7 degrees Celsius on Thursday night.
April 04, 2012 - The Korea Herald
Korea Herald: Opinion: Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Europe
Rabbi Shneur Kesselman estimates that he has been the victim of 100 or so anti-Semitic confrontations since he arrived in the southern Swedish city of Malm in 2004.
April 04, 2012 - The Globe and Mail
Globe and Mail: Octogenarian Islamist cleric an unlikely revolutionary
At 86 years old, ghost-like, hard of hearing and dependent on eye drops to blink, Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi is an unlikely revolutionary.
April 03, 2012 - The Boston Globe
Boston Globe: Massachusetts leads fight on right to marry
Massachusetts will once again take center stage in the national debate over same-sex marriage as the state becomes the first to go before a United States appeals court to challenge a federal law that defines marriage as a union only of a man and a woman.
April 03, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Clergy group to air ad against AL immigration law
Ahead of Easter and Passover, faith leaders across Alabama have asked state lawmakers to hear "the cries of their people", reflect and revise what they deem the toughest-in-the-nation immigration law.
April 03, 2012 - The Toronto Star
Toronto star: Kitchen appliances help observant Jews keep kosher
A $50 kitchen appliance feature has become the answer to a millennia-old challenge for observant Jews.
April 03, 2012 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Book: Fears of anti-Mormon backlash haunt Romney aides
Mitt Romney’s aides were so worried about an anti-Mormon backlash against their candidate in Iowa that they may have missed a more immediate threat: Rick Santorum.
April 02, 2012 - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post: Minorities tested to the limit
Eltilib Saga says she is facing an uphill battle to enter university.
April 02, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: French Catholic school a refuge for Muslims
It’s the Friday before mid-term break at Tour Sainte, and there’s a giddy mood in the yard as the children file out past Stéphane Thiébaut, the school principal. “Bonnes vacances,” he calls out to the parents and teachers milling about in the spring sunshine.
April 02, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Mali’s neighbors impose financial sanctions on the country in effort to reverse coup
The body representing West African nations on Monday imposed severe financial sanctions on Mali, after a 72-hour deadline elapsed and the soldiers that recently seized power failed to fully restore constitutional order.
April 02, 2012 - Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune: Balancing medicine, faith
As a medical student, Dr. Julie Oyler was told to remove the cross she wore on the lapel of her white coat.
April 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Czech Government's plan to return Church lands stirs resistance
A blockbuster bill wending its way through the Czech Parliament would, if passed as envisioned this spring, transact one of the biggest property deals in any former Soviet bloc country by restoring more than half of church property nationalized after the Communists seized power in 1948.
April 02, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Push for the right to die grows in the Netherlands
It was 1989, and Dr. Petra de Jong, a Dutch pulmonologist, was asked for help by a terminally ill patient, a man in great pain with a large cancerous tumor in his trachea.
April 01, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Muslim militants in south Thailand growing stronger
Muslim insurgents announced a deadly new departure in their long-running terror campaign in southern Thailand, with four explosions killing 14 people and injuring more than 300 on Saturday.
April 01, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Self-immolations reflect rising Tibetan anger
He walked three times around the rural monastery he had attended as a small child, cycled into town and had a simple vegetarian meal with a friend.
April 01, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: In Egyptian hard-liner’s surge, new worries for the Muslim Brotherhood
Hazem Salah Abu Ismail is an old-school Islamist.
April 01, 2012 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: The faith factor: Religion's new prominence in campaign 2012
God hit the campaign trail way back in the summer of this election cycle.
April 01, 2012 - McClatchy Newspapers
McClatchy: Despite papal visits, ministering to Cuba's Catholics still difficult
After two papal visits, the Roman Catholic Church enjoys growing support from long-suffering Cubans yet support from the Communist Party that rules this island nation can be described as reluctant at best.
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