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May 23, 2013 - Reuters
Reuters: Crackdown on radical Islamists tests Tunisia's stability
For the first time since the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, relations between mainstream Islamists in government and radical Salafist Muslim activists have reached breaking point, sparking deadly clashes in two Tunisian cities.
May 23, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay youths, maintain ban on gay adult leaders
The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its ban on openly gay youths but maintained a prohibition on gay adult leaders, a decision framed as a compromise but one that could lead to litigation and thousands of defections from one of America’s largest youth organizations.
May 22, 2013 - The Times of India
Times of India: Anti-Muslim sentiments on rise in UK: British minister
Britain's first ever minister for faith Sayeeda Warsi told TOI in an exclusive interview that "UK is witnessing a rising level of anti-Muslim sentiments" with hate crimes increasing by the day.
May 22, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Brotherhood's Egypt, blasphemy charges against Christians surge ahead
A blasphemy trial against a Christian teacher in this Egyptian city renowned for its Pharaonic monuments is among a wave of cases that have Egyptian Christians worried they can be jailed for insulting Islam on the flimsiest of evidence.
May 22, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philly Inquirer: Faith-healing parents charged with murder in death of infant
Catherine and Herbert Schaible, the Philadelphia faith-healing couple convicted once of manslaughter for allowing their sick toddler to die, were charged Wednesday with third-degree murder in the death of another son, infant Brandon.
May 22, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Some business owners resist providing employees with contraceptive coverage
Religiously devout business owners are waging a broad rebellion against providing their employees with contraceptive coverage, bringing dozens of lawsuits that seem certain to land the issue before the Supreme Court.
May 21, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: A founder of the revolution is barred from office, shocking Iranians
The decision on Tuesday to bar the presidential candidacy of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a founding father of the revolution and a former president, shocked Iranians, particularly among the 70 percent of the population that is under 35 and grew up when he served in many leading positions.
May 21, 2013 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: Pope and the devil: Francis’ fascination with Satan leads to suspicion he performed exorcism
Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place.
May 20, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: Are prayers before public meetings OK? Supreme Court to decide.
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to examine whether offering a prayer before a town meeting violates the First Amendment’s separation of church and state.
May 20, 2013 - Deseret News
Deseret News: Muslim leaders in U.S. facing challenges inside and outside the faith
Soon after two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon on April 15, Muslim groups joined others in denouncing the deadly violence.
May 20, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: State Dept. report says countries have repressed religious freedom with laws
Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual report chronicling a grim decline in religious freedom that has resulted in rising bigotry and sectarian violence.
May 20, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
CS Monitor: In Myanmar, a movement for Muslim and Buddhist tolerance
Days after communal violence rocked central Myanmar in late March, leaving more than 40 people dead and raising tensions in the mostly Buddhist country, a group of Muslims and a group of Buddhists decided enough was enough.
May 20, 2013 - The Washington Times
Wash. Times: Evangelical weakness in gay Boy Scouts debate could hurt GOP
Signs of waning evangelical power in the nation’s culture wars and in Republican policy — and some unexpected challenges for GOP candidates — loom as the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America gears up for a definitive vote this week on whether to welcome openly gay youths into the organization’s ranks.
May 20, 2013 - The Des Moines Resgister
Des Moines Register: Faith-based addiction program grows
By the time Linda Martin was 10 years old, she had given up on God.
May 18, 2013 - The Economist
Economist: Turkey's political imams: The Gulenists fight back
In a recent sermon Fethullah Gulen, Turkey’s most powerful Muslim cleric, preached against hubris. Delivered in rural Pennsylvania, where Mr Gulen lives in self-imposed exile, it was broadcast from his website with an electrifying effect. Was the holy man alluding to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian prime minister?
May 18, 2013 - The New York Times
NYT: Hollande signs French gay marriage law
The rush toward France’s first same-sex marriage officially began Saturday morning, after President François Hollande signed the country’s “marriage for all” act into law.
May 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope decries more concern over banks than people; leads Vatican rally, meets with Merkel
Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church’s moral conscience, hours after he held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with Germany’s leader.
May 18, 2013 - The Associated Press
AP: Vote imminent as Boy Scouts considers change to policy banning gays
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
May 17, 2013 - The Times of London
The Times: Britain is losing its faith in church, census shows
The number of British-born Christians is falling steeply while a youthful Muslim population is on the rise, according to census figures published yesterday.
May 17, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune: Utah Pentecostals praise God in ‘language of angels’
Pastor Ronald Rice is pacing and sweating, roaring and crying as he warns his west Salt Lake City Pentecostal congregation about what he calls the "dangers of drifting."
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