- North Carolina, Your Anti-Sharia Law Takes the Cake
- Priest to legislators: I will campaign against you from church
- Yglesias: We Should Be Taxing Churches—They're getting $82.5 billion a year.
- Separation Of Church, State Is An Alien Concept To Islam
- Obama administration backs prayer at local government meetings—"In a potentially far-reaching case on separation of church and state, the Obama administration and Republican lawmakers tell the Supreme Court they support easing limits on prayers at meetings."
- Feds say OK to atheists on religion tax break—"'We are not a church,' atheists say. Government lawyers disagree, saying atheist leaders can be considered ministers."
- Blast from the Past: It's the End of the World as We Know It: Celestia—"By deeding the land, essentially, to God, Celestia was unique in its time period." It was "intended the land to be considered sacred, thus not subject to property tax. Unfortunately, the Sullivan County government disagreed with this idea."
- Hackney woman told to remove burka by crown court judge—"The 21-year-old from Hackney, who is charged with intimidating a witness, said she could not remove the veil in front of men because of her religion. Judge Peter Murphy said however, she could not stand trial in the veil, which only reveals her eyes, because her identity could not be confirmed."
- Atheist Parolee Finally Sees Justice After Being Sent Back to Prison for Refusing a Religious Drug Treatment Program
- Cocke County judge orders 7-month-old's name changed from 'Messiah'
- Judge won't drop murder charge against Pa. faith-healing parents; victim was 2nd child to die
- Ohio hospital: Force Amish girl to have chemo
- Pentecostal Minister Convinces HIV Patient To Refuse Medicine, Leading Him To His Death Bed
- Cardinal Keith O'Brien 'blocked church sex abuse report', says archbishop
- Michigan appeals court: Pastors don't have to report child abuse—"A western Michigan pastor who was told about suspected child abuse can't be prosecuted for failing to report it, the state appeals court said today, citing a law that gives clergy protection in cases dealing with confidential information."
- Gordon Leighton: Jehovah's Witness whose child abuse was covered up by church elders is jailed—"He broke down and admitted the abuse to three church elders but they refused to co-operate with a police probe, a court heard."
- Priest draws 8-year prison sentence for molesting a girl
- Southwest Houston church reeling from pastor's sex abuse arrest
- Police In Zanzibar Shoot Radical Imam Wanted In Acid Attack On Two British Women—"A radical Muslim preacher wanted for questioning over the acid attack on two British tourists in Zanzibar was shot on Saturday night as he fled police trying to arrest him."
- Muslim Brotherhood leader Gomaa Amin is in hiding in London—"The new spiritual leader of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is living in hiding in London in fear of state-sponsored assassination, it can be disclosed."
- Nigerian Islamists accused of cutting throats of 44 villagers—"Official says attackers gouged out eyes of some survivors of raid on Dumba village."
- Mustache elicits Taliban death threats—"Even being kidnapped and exiled by militants hasn't scared Malik Afridi into shaving his impressive bristles." Salon
- Danish Muslim leader regrets role in cartoon rage—"A Danish Muslim leader who seven years ago traveled the Muslim world fueling the uproar over newspaper caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad is back in the headlines in Denmark after doing an about-face on the issue."
- A Conservative Catholic Now Backs Same-Sex Marriage—"Joseph Bottum, in an essay in Commonweal magazine, writes about his change of heart on the issue, citing the 'natural law' theology of Thomas Aquinas." NYT
- Churches changing bylaws after gay marriage ruling
- After same-sex couple victory in Collegedale, church ousts gay detective's family
- Mexican politician says gay people should not be allowed to marry because 'they don't face each other during sex'—"'A marriage should only be considered amongst people that can look at each other in the eye while having sexual intercourse,' Jiménez Ortiz said."
- NZ holds its first same-sex weddings
- Rowan Williams tells 'persecuted' western Christians to grow up—"Former archbishop of Canterbury says UK and US Christians exaggerate 'mild discomfort', and gay friends may feel let down."
- New meta-analysis checks the correlation between intelligence and faith
- Andrew Sullivan: This Extraordinary Pope
- 'Monkey Christ' fresco boosts tourism
- Worker struck by lightning while operating Creation Museum zip line attraction
- Lion Attacks an Intruder in Its Den at Taipei Zoo—"A lion attacked a man who jumped into its zoo enclosure here Wednesday and shouted, 'Jesus will save you!' at the animal, an eyewitness said."
- People pray at tree outside St. Johns Cathedral in Fresno, California, say tree weeps God's tears—"Experts: Tree drips with bug excrement, not tears."
- Kenyan lawyer looks to sue Israel over Jesus' death
