Montreal Gazette reports that over half of those polled in the European Union oppose the presence of the veil in public schools.Montreal Gazette also reports on the opposition to the new required ethics course in Quebec, which has taken the case all the way to the Supreme Court.CBC reports that – in response to the cleric’s claim that women’s immodest dress has caused earthquakes – women have started a campaign of cleavage on facebook.
The Montreal Gazette reports on French plans to jail burka enforcers.Nicholas D. Kristoff has an op-ed in the New York Times suggesting that the Boston Globe and other news sources are to be credited with the raise in public esteem of the Roman Catholic church than any church officials.The Guardian reports on a Spanish cathedral that will start allowing internet pilgrimages.Canada.com reports on the use of contraceptives – despite Vatican teachings – by Catholic women.CP 24 reports on a forthcoming episode of South Park that will feature Jesus Christ as a “regular guy.”The Montreal Gazette reports on efforts to preserve religious buildings and landmarks as such in Quebec.BBC News reports on the Blackburn Resistance and the possibility of prank/joke terrorists.Poorna Shetty has an op-ed at the Guardian about progressive uses of religion for political/legal reform.CP 24 reports on school teachers learning about Catholicism in order to get a change to teach at a Catholic school.The Guardian reports on Italy’s top imam responding to the banning of full veils by contending that these are a part of Italian fashion history.Mike Lux at the Huffington Post has an op-ed about how Christians become conservative.BBC News reports that a Mali Imam claims to be living in fear of his life after backing women’s rights.BBC News also comments on the generational differences between Scottish Muslim women.Canada.com reports on a new program wherein people can text the pope and have their messages appear on his show.CNN , with the title that says it all: Afghanistan’s Last Jew vows to Stay Put.CNN also reports on the growing Evangelical opposition to Arizona’s immigration laws.BBC reports, hilariously, on voice lessons for atonal muezzins in Istanbul.CNN reports on Britain’s new – and first – Muslim woman minister.The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on “the new war between science and religion.”At the New York Times, Frank Rich has an op-ed commenting upon George Rekers and the “rent boy” scandal.CBC News reports on backlash to a Quebec cardinal’s comment that abortion is a “moral crime” even in the case of rape.CNN reports on the Episcopal church’s first openly lesbian bishop.Care 2 reports on the Pope’s condemnation of gay marriage.The Montreal Gazette reports on the mixed reaction to the bill that would ban public employees from wearing veils in Quebec.Canada.com reports on the French cabinet’s approval of the burqa ban.
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