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September 2013

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 09, 2013

A Scottish tabloid libels the Churches of Christ

Tabloids will always be with us. Few will admit to taking Jesus-shaped potato chips, astrology,...

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 06, 2013

Imagine Pope Francis; help artists win prizes

So, unless you have spent quite a bit of time on another planet in recent...

September 05, 2013

Spot the ghost in China’s material girls

Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me I think they're O.K. If they don't...

September 03, 2013

PBS: Understanding Syria (minus any nasty religion stuff)

So here we go again. This weekend I mentioned an online explainer piece served up...

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...

September 01, 2013

Was Seamus Heaney a Catholic poet?

Religion’s never mentioned here,’ of course. ‘You know them by their eyes,’ and hold your...

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 30, 2013

Should some marriages be scare-quoted?

Many moons ago, when I was asking questions about why Religion News Service put "religious...

August 29, 2013

Off to war again. But a just one?

Everyone ready for another war? Ready or not, it appears that we are about to...

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 27, 2013

Where is the BBC’s coverage of Egypt?

What lays behind the Anglo-American press's failure to report on the chaos in Egypt? While...

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 18, 2013

Scapegoating Bishop James Tengatenga

Dartmouth College President Philip J. Hanlon's decision to nix the appointment of Bishop James Tengatenga...

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...

August 12, 2013

A newspaper gets burned in reporting on Anglican Africa

The Christian Science Monitor has been tripped up by the African press and the internet,...

August 12, 2013

Married 60 times before age 18 in Egypt

The Washington Post had a religion news blog item last week headlined, horrifyingly, "‘Some girls...

August 09, 2013

The New York Times misses battle for Belarus

I would like to draw your attention to a 28 July 2013 piece in the...

August 08, 2013

Major Nidal Hasan talks about faith, like it or not

Some may disagree, but I think we have reached the point where we can say...

August 05, 2013

Removing religious voices from ‘right to die’ debate

The Court of Appeal for England and Wales has upheld the blanket ban on euthanasia...

August 04, 2013

Pod People: CBS asks if Pope is breaking with Vatican

The previous week gave us a lot to talk about here at GetReligion. Check out...

August 02, 2013

NPR: true tolerance=open marriages

I'm just catching up on some email but last week a former reporter submitted a...

August 01, 2013

Locking the two popes into one flawed news template

As has been our practice since day one, your GetReligionistas rarely write posts about editorials,...

August 01, 2013

The moral (and news) authority of Desmond Tutu

An article at BBC.com on the launch of a United Nations-backed campaign to promote gay...

July 2013

July 27, 2013

Pod people: About those photo ops in Brazil’s slums

Here a photo op, there a photo op, everywhere a papal photo op. The question...

July 25, 2013

A sad note of Orthodox reality in Eastern Europe

It's impossible to know precisely what is happening inside the mind of a politician when...