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July 2014

July 25, 2014

Islam, ISIS and the FGM fatwa

Reporting from the front lines of the Middle East conflicts be a parlous experience if...

July 15, 2014

For Cologne archbishop, Reuters emits a scent of bias

The new archbishop of Cologne, Germany, is all about gays. At least it is, according...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Roadmaps should guide us, including through Sudan

Sudan may be hard for geography-challenged Americans to find on a map, but Reuters --...

June 06, 2014

Seeking the shooter’s motive at Seattle Pacific University?

This time, it appears that a lone gunman acting for some unknown, mysterious reason decided...

February 2014

February 19, 2014

Balkan absurdist reporting by Reuters

At Get Religion it is usually considered bad form to criticize wire service reports for...

February 18, 2014

Miscues in news on gay blessings and marriage from London

The Valentine's Day statement from the House of Bishops of the Church of England on...

January 2014

January 14, 2014

Reuters editors read mind of Pope Francis on abortion

So, GetReligion readers, it is time for short religion-news quiz. Raise your hands (or click...

December 2013

December 16, 2013

Isn’t that special? Satan pays a visit to the Bible Belt (updated)

When the devil issues a press release, the media pay attention. Satan has stirred a...

December 03, 2013

Viva la Eurorévolution

Religion ghosts haunt the stories out of Kiev this week, but the Western press has...

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...

September 2013

September 22, 2013

Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the...

September 06, 2013

Bloomberg’s totally unbiased abortion story

The best construction I can put on the article we're about to look at is...

August 2013

August 01, 2013

When Planned Parenthood isn’t news (fraud edition)

Is fraud a religion story? Not necessarily. Are the actions of Planned Parenthood religion stories?...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

AP keeps on standing with Wendy

On the Planned Parenthood site is the headline pictured here about Rick Perry signing a...

July 06, 2013

A Newtown massacre in Nigeria, with ghosts

Absolutely horrific news out of Nigeria today. From the Associated Press: POTISKUM, Nigeria — Islamic...

June 2013

June 26, 2013

Reuters engages in papal Kremlinology

Pope Francis did not attend a musical gala last Saturday evening at the Vatican due...

June 18, 2013

Put not your trust in Huffington Post headlines

I know a maiden fair to see, Take care! She can both false and friendly...

May 2013

May 15, 2013

Hey Reuters: Historic details really matter in Istanbul

Istanbul is the kind of place in which the past often seems to be just...

May 01, 2013

Why is Paula Broadwell’s faith such a mystery?

Seeking "redemption" after Petraeus scandal, Paula Broadwell looks to faith cbsn.ws/130ApsB— CBS News (@CBSNews) May...

April 2013

April 20, 2013

Power to hype or downplay: On Gosnell and the NYTimes

Many in the media are indicating that they really want to move on from the...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

When is it OK to burn Islamic texts?

We've been critiquing the good and bad coverage of what's been happening to Mali in...

December 2012

December 11, 2012

Celibacy and the clergy abuse scandal

Last Friday the Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, the German Episcopal Conference of the Roman Catholic Church, released...

December 03, 2012

Whistling in the dark about Islam and reform

Has anyone seen a story in the U.S. press about the opening of...

October 2012

October 18, 2012

What’s happening in Zanzibar?

It's been about five years since I was last in Zanzibar. I was part of...