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Punk band arrest at heart of Russia church feud

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

San Jose Mercury News - By Mansur Mirovalev - May. 13 (Special Report) - t's the latest flare-up in a growing feud pitting supporters of the influential church, which sees itself as the nation's spiritual guide, against opponents who say the church has sold out to Vladimir Putin—becoming an arm of his regime more interested in gold than souls.

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Lawmakers vote to ban picketing at Tucson funerals

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Paul Davenport - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Arizona legislators quickly approved emergency legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kan., church near the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was killed during Saturday's shooting in Tucson. Unanimous votes by the House and Senate cleared the way for the bill to go to Gov. Jan Brewer later Tuesday for her expected signature.

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Defiant Pastors Take on IRS in Pulpit Freedom Sunday

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Kevin Dolak - Sep. 27 (News Report) - The pastors, along with the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based nonprofit Alliance Defense Fund, are reacting to a law stating that churches are not allowed to support politicians from the pulpit, according to the ADF.

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Pastors to Defy IRS on 'Pulpit Freedom Sunday'

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Kevin Dolak - Sep. 26 (News) - Nearly 100 pastors across the country planned to take part in Pulpit Freedom Sunday, an in-your-face challenge on Sunday to what the government says can and cannot be said in church. The pastors, along with the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based nonprofit Alliance Defense Fund, are reacting to a law stating that churches are not allowed to support politicians from the pulpit, according to the ADF.

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STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Dallas Morning News - By Terrence Stutz - Sep. 25 (News) - The State Board of Education on Friday instructed textbook publishers to make sure their new world history texts are more favorable to Christianity and less positive toward Islam if they want to sell their books in Texas.

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NC teen: Nose ring more than fashion, it's faith

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Tom Breen - Sep. 16 (News) - A soft-spoken 14-year-old's nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion.

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Wellesley schools chief apologizes for students' role in Muslim prayer service

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Erica Noonan, Katrina Ballard - Sep. 16 (News) - Wellesley’s school superintendent apologized today for allowing middle school students to participate in a prayer service during a field trip to a Roxbury mosque last spring. The apology to parents came after a group that has been critical of the Islamic Society of Boston Community Center — New England’s largest mosque and Muslim cultural center — released a 10-minute long video featuring footage of Wellesley students bowing their heads during a prayer service.

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Tea Party Tug Of War; Is Focus Fiscal Or Social?

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Frank James - Sep. 16 (News Analysis) - Is the Tea Party movement about fiscal conservatism, social conservatism? Or both?

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‘One law for all Ontarians’

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Toronto Star - By Harvey Simmons - Sep. 14 (News Analysis) - Five years ago, Premier Dalton McGuinty announced, “There will be no sharia law in Ontario. There will be no religious arbitration in Ontario. There will be one law for all Ontarians.” The premier was referring to the fact that since 1991, arbitration decisions made according to religious laws were enforceable in Ontario courts, and he was now going to rescind the law that made this possible.

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Conn. Muslims ask for equality from city council

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By EVERTON BAILEY Jr. - Sep. 13 (News) - The Hartford City Council's decision to replace a scheduled Islamic prayer with an interfaith moment of silence before its meeting sends the wrong message to Connecticut's Islamic community, Muslim leaders said.

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Santorum Injecting Faith Into Presidential Discussion

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - By Daniel Malloy - Sep. 09 (News Analysis) - In trying to become the second Roman Catholic president of the United States, Rick Santorum will seek to refute a key campaign plank of the first. Fifty years after John F. Kennedy gave a landmark speech addressing his faith and the need to separate church and state, Mr. Santorum will speak today in Houston about the need for an increased role for religion in public life.

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Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Role

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Brian Stelter - Sep. 09 (News) - Unlike the Koran-burning by Westboro Baptist, Mr. Jones’s planned event in Gainesville, Fla., coincided with the controversy over the proposed building of a Muslim community center in Lower Manhattan near ground zero and a simmering summerlong debate about the freedoms of speech and religion. Mr. Jones was able to put himself at the center of those issues by using the news lull of summer and the demands of a 24-hour news cycle to promote his anti-Islam cause.

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Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Julian E. Barnes, Matthew Rosenberg - Sep. 07 (News) - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a small Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger and damage the war effort. Gen. David Petraeus said the Taliban would exploit the demonstration for propaganda purposes, drumming up anger toward the U.S. and making it harder for allied troops to carry out their mission of protecting Afghan civilians.

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Amid Church Abuse Scandal, an Office That Failed to Act

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, DAVID M. HALBFINGER, Rachel Donadio - Jul. 01 (News) - The office led by Cardinal Ratzinger, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had actually been given authority over sexual abuse cases nearly 80 years earlier, in 1922, documents show and canon lawyers confirm. But for the two decades he was in charge of that office, the future pope never asserted that authority, failing to act even as the cases undermined the church’s credibility in the United States, Australia, Ireland and elsewhere.

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Coalition blasts Comedy Central project for animated series on Jesus Christ

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Doug Stanglin - Jun. 02 (News Report) - It's still only in the early development stage, but some media and religion heavyhitters have lined up in opposition to comedy central's animated project about Jesus Christ trying to live as a 'regular guy" in New York, Hollywood Reporter says.

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Religious Leaders Press McCain on Immigration

Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Katy Steinmetz - May. 15 (News Report) - What do you get when you put a rabbi, a mega-church pastor and two bishops together? Half of the Arizonan religious leaders that showed up on Capitol Hill today asking Senator McCain for some answers on immigration.

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Belgian lawmakers pass burqa ban

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 30 (News Report) - Belgium's parliament has passed a draft law which would ban women from wearing Islamic veils like the burka or niqab in public.

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Taliban Ousted, Pakistan's Swat Valley Still Longs for Islamic Justice

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Rania Abouzeid - Apr. 25 (News Report) - Last summer's war may have cleansed the area of the Taliban but it also brought back Pakistan's slow-moving judicial system, much to the chagrin of the locals

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France wants to apply burqa ban to tourists

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Sophie Hardach - Apr. 22 (News) - France's government on Thursday announced it would apply a proposed ban on face-covering Islamic veils to visiting tourists as well as residents, even as skepticism mounted over the legality of the plan.

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Sarkozy to Submit Bill Banning Islamic Face Veils

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Apr. 21 (News Report) - The French President Nicolas Sarkozy will submit legislation to parliament on banning Islamic veils that fully cover a woman’s face and body.

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Supreme Court May Lack Protestants, After Stevens Leaves

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Nina Totenberg - Apr. 07 (News Report) - With U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens talking openly about retirement, attention has focused on the "who" — as in who is on President Obama's short list of potential nominees. But almost nobody has noticed that when Justice Stevens retires, it is entirely possible that there will be no Protestant justices on the court for the first time ever.

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Belgium moves towards burqa ban

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ian Traynor - Apr. 01 (News Report) - Belgium today moved to the forefront of a campaign to restrict the wearing of the Muslim veil by women when a key vote left it on track to become the first European country to ban the burka and niqab in public.

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Death Becomes Him

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Atlantic Monthly - By Bruce Falkner - Mar. 03 (Investigative Report) - Over the past decade, Ludwig Minelli has helped more than 1,000 people kill themselves and has turned Zurich into the undisputed world capital of assisted suicide. Minelli sees himself as a crusader for what he calls “the last human right”—and he believes that helping more and more people to die advances his cause. Even if you believe in an absolute right to die on your own terms, how far is too far in the quest to secure that right? By Bruce Falconer

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Secret Jesus Bible Codes on U.S. Military Weapons

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

ABC News - By Brian Ross - Jan. 19 (Investigative Report) - Brian Ross looks at the biblical verses written on firearms.

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In Defense of Foxhole Atheists

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Vanity Fair - By Christopher Hitchens - Dec. 15 (Special Report) - It’s no secret that conservative Christians dominate the U.S. military, but when higher-ups start talking about conversion missions, it’s time to worry. The author meets a group of soldiers who aren’t having it.

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