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January 2014

January 14, 2014

WPost whoppers about the Muslim Brotherhood

Claims of bias and inaccurate reporting have dogged the Western press's coverage of Egypt since...

January 09, 2014

News flash! AP ends the Great Schism of 1054!

Many moons ago -- just under a quarter of a century -- I covered a...

December 2013

December 28, 2013

Pod people: What was top 2013 story for Pope Francis?

I am sure that GetReligion readers will be shocked, shocked to know that the Godbeat...

December 18, 2013

Ghosts in those one-sided reports about victims in Syria

Rare is the day that I do not receive at least one or two emails...

December 03, 2013

Missing nuns, missing details, in Maaloula (updated)

Trust me on this. I know that it must be impossible for journalists to cover...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Reuters skips a key detail in Israel’s wedding wars — divorce

Everybody loves a wedding, or so culture would have us believe. However, according to a...

October 2013

October 26, 2013

Got news? Has Kristallnacht come to the Middle East?

There was always an important, yet unstated, idea at the heart of the "On Faith"...

October 23, 2013

The Coptic ghost in those potential flights from Egypt

Let's start with a few journalistic questions. Am I surprised that The New York Times...

October 18, 2013

Lost in mobs, fire, guns and ink: Is Christ of Sinai safe?

What is the Mona Lisa worth? At the time of their destruction by the Taliban,...

October 15, 2013

Pay no attention to Rand Paul (or Christian persecution!)

A Washington Post Politics news blog on Senator Rand Paul's appearance before the Value Voters...

October 04, 2013

Pod people: Deja vu on global persecution of Christians

As a rule, I don't discuss the contents of one of my new Scripps Howard...

October 02, 2013

LATimes looks at Egypt; sees only signs of Islamic life

Over the past two years, your GetReligionistas have frequently urged (one example here) journalists to...

September 2013

September 26, 2013

Praying Jews flock to the Temple Mount; world notices

If there is a "Ground Zero" for the world's three Abrahamic religions -- Judaism, Christianity...

September 20, 2013

Intended consequences — The Times & Jewish Jerusalem

Choosing determines all human decisions. In making his choice man chooses not only between various...

September 11, 2013

AFP gives Maalula its due

It was my intention today to look at religion news coverage of the anniversary of...

September 09, 2013

Is a global fast for Syria a local news story?

According to Catholic News Agency: Pope Francis made a global petition on Sept. 1 asking...

September 08, 2013

What is the X-factor in Syrian bloodshed? DUH! (updated)

It seems that many networkers in the online world remain fired up about that recent...

September 02, 2013

How to follow totally secular Syria news on Twitter

The goal here at GetReligion is, of course, to look at the good and the...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

WWROD? What does sharia law look like in practice?

The other day, in a discussion of events in Egypt, I noted -- once again...

August 28, 2013

Pod people: What’s religion got to do with Egyptian tourism?

In the wake of the events of 9/11, I had the honor of taking part...

August 25, 2013

After Hasan trial: Spot big religion ghost in this story

The military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan was never -- as a journalism story --...

August 23, 2013

What do Egyptians really mean when they say ‘sharia’?

One of the major themes in GetReligion posts about Islam over the past decade has...

August 20, 2013

LATimes sees the layers of threats against Copts in Egypt

The dominant story coming out of Egypt right now continues, and with good cause, to...

August 16, 2013

What did Pope Tawadros say? When did he say it? (updated)

At the pivotal event announcing the fall of President Mohamed Morsi, a number of symbolic...

August 15, 2013

Saith the WPost: So what’s really going on in Egypt?

My cellphone chimed at me earlier this afternoon with a news bulletin from CNN that...

August 14, 2013

Muslims kill Muslims, for no reasons that can be reported

The bloodshed in Egypt continues and, to be quite frank about it, it's hard to...

July 2013

July 22, 2013

The controversial mind and Lebanese soul of Helen Thomas

As I have mentioned before here at GetReligion, at the time of the Sept. 11...

July 09, 2013

Doing the bloody math in emerging civil war in Egypt

It appears that some members of the mainstream press are beginning to do the hard,...

July 05, 2013

Watching for ghosts in the news flashes from Egypt

A few journalistic thoughts while I continue to watch the waves of news coverage rolling...

July 01, 2013

There’s more to Egypt’s pain than secularism vs. religion

Many GetReligion readers have, I am sure, spent some time today following the urgent news...