A debate among Christians about whether it’s ok to quote the Koran in trying to convert Muslims to Christianity.

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Here’s the kind of question that might violate the rules you learned about proper dinner conversation: Does President Obama’s next Supreme Court nominee need to be a Protestant?

If Justice John Paul Stevens decides to call it a career after he turns 90 next month, the Supreme Court would for the first time in its history be without a justice belonging to America’s largest religious affiliations.

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Seemingly normal Pennsylvania woman turns into a radical jihadist after turning to Islam.

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Christopher Hitchens detects extortion in an attempt to sue Danish newspapers on behalf of 95,000 descendants of Muhammad.

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More than one hundred people were feared dead in Nigeria following violent clashes between Christian villagers and Muslim herders near the central city of Jos. Ethno-religious violence claimed 326 lives in January in Jos, according to police although other observers put the overall toll at more than 550 in Jos.

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Fifty-six years after its founding, the church is fighting off calls by former members for a reformation.

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Critics of the teaching of evolution in the nation’s classrooms are gaining ground in some states by linking the issue to global warming, arguing that dissenting views on both scientific subjects should be taught in public schools.

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She’s Jewish.  He’s Catholic.  They divorced.  He baptized their kid.  What’s a judge to do?

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A profile of a medical student who turned into an Islamic militant.  “Frustrated strivers” with strong educational backgrounds are making Islamic militant groups even more potent enemies of the West.

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The leader of a US religious cult was “outraged” when a one-year-old boy did not say “Amen” before a meal and ordered her followers to deprive him of food and water until he died, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday.

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In the theater of American public apologies, it’s common for celebrities to invoke their faith.

Disgraced golf superstar Tiger Woods did it Friday, in fact, with a twist. He cited the role of Buddhism in his life - and will look to it to help him recover from serial infidelity.

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A recent Pew Research study of people 18 to 29 years old found, among other things, that they “are slightly more supportive than their elders of government efforts to protect morality, as well as somewhat more comfortable with involvement in politics by churches and other houses of worship.”

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The government in the Indian state of Meghalaya has confiscated textbooks showing pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette and a can of beer.  State Education Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh said legal action against the publishers was being contemplated.

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The Christian “truth” about America’s founding has long been taught in Christian schools, but not beyond. Recently, however some activists have decided that the time was right to try to reshape the history that children in public schools study.

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An employment tribunal case being heard this week illustrated just how serious an issue religious bigotry is becoming in schools.  Nicholas Kafouris, who claims he was forced out of his job at Bigland Green Primary School in east London, was accused by one parent of believing that “Christianity is better than Islam”. She said he had made an “insulting” remark about her daughter wearing a headscarf in class.

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A class experiment has left a deep mark in a strongly religious community in Ohio.  The firing of a christian, middle school science teacher has divided a town, and surfaced the undeniable truth that creationism is being taught in American public schools.

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Every bit of Christian teaching can be summed up in three words: God is love. That is the simple truth that teaches tolerance of same-sex unions.

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A female suicide bomber attacked a column of Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding 100.

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This in-depth article tells the story of the transformation of Omar Hammami from a very Americanized child growing up in Alabama into a radical jihadist in Somalia.

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In the latest incident reflecting rising tensions between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia, pig heads were thrown onto the grounds of a mosque.  Until recently, Malaysia has been one of the more moderate Islamic nations, with largely peaceful interfaith relations.

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