Source: The Boston Globe/Newsday

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/07/editor_of_jesuit_weekly_is_ousted/

On May 7, 2005 Newsday reported, "The editor of America, an influential Jesuit weekly magazine, has resigned under orders from the Vatican, which threatened to impose a 'board of censors' to oversee the magazine if he stayed, according to the National Catholic Reporter...Frequently quoted in the secular media, [...

Source: Sun Sentinel

http://www.southflorida.com/movies/sfl-likingdom07may07,0,1862611.story?coll=sfe-movies-headlines

On May 7, 2005 the Sun Sentinel reported, "three South Florida friends -- a Protestant pastor, a Muslim activist, a Catholic priest -- watched an advance screening of Kingdom of Heaven this week, then talked out their widely diverging feelings. 'I felt the film's message to people of all faiths, Jews,...

Source: Rochester Democrat...

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050501927.html

On May 6, 2005 The Washington Post reported, "debating a question that the scientific establishment considers settled, Kansas education authorities put evolutionary theory on trial Thursday in a hearing marked by sharp exchanges over Earth's origins and what students should be taught in science class.

Scientists who...

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/06/muslim_opens_holocaust_museum_in_israel/

On May 6, 2005 The Boston Globe reported, "The photographs in a new museum here are among the best-known icons of the Holocaust: Germans executing a group of naked Jewish women; a little boy with a yellow Star of David on his jacket raising his hands in fright; a grandmother and four...

Source: Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/166/story_16619_1.html

On May 5, 2005 Beliefnet reported, "critics have long maintained the National Day of Prayer's real intent is to mobilize religious conservatives for political action. Proponents deny that charge, saying it's just one part of a larger prayer movement that includes the Global Day of Prayer, a unifying event for Christians across continents, and Prayer for the Persecuted Church, in which prayer is...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/05/BAGG9CK9EU1.DTL

On May 5, 2005 the San Francisco Chronicle reported, "from San Francisco's Twin Peaks to the Daytona International Speedway in Florida -- and at thousands of locations in between -- people will gather to bow their heads in the annual National Day of Prayer. But while California's prayer locations have doubled to 400 since last year, some wonder...

Source: The Harvard Crimson

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=507637

On May 5, 2005 The Harvard Crimson reported, "people of faith are often challenged to reconcile religious traditionalism with a desire for progressive action and modernism: Catholics who disagree with the encyclicals of the pope or Muslims who reject fundamentalist action are currently among the more prominent examples. To this end, at the opening of 'Acting on Faith: Women and the New...

Source: Christian Examiner

http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20May05/Art_May05_12.html

On May 5, 2005 the Christian Examiner reported, "fearing a California Supreme Court ruling that could have a devastating impact on tax-exempt bond funding for Christian schools and universities, the Christian Legal Society’s Center for Law...

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/education/news-article.aspx?storyid=36684

On May 5, 2005 The Associated Press reported, "a federal appeals court has denied the Cobb County school board's request to delay an order to remove evolution disclaimer stickers from science textbooks.

The school board had requested the delay while appealing a ruling that the stickers, which said evolution was 'a theory, not a fact'...

Source: Religion News Service

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/166/story_16622_1.html

On May 4, 2005 Religion News Service reported, "religious leaders, left-leaning political activists and victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York joined Wednesday (May 4) to denounce recent comments Pat Robertson made about the escalating battle over the federal judiciary. MoveOnPAC, a progressive group that provides financial backing to congressional candidates, said it's launching...

Source: CommonDreams.org/Buddhist Peace Fellowship

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0502-09.htm

On May 2, 2005 a Buddhist Peace Fellowship press release reported, "As Pope Benedict XVI begins his incumbency by building bridges to Christian, Jewish, and Islamic communities, the Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF) is taking the initiative to extend sincere and respectful greeting in the form of a letter -- remarkable not only for what it says but for it doesn't say, and thus...

Source: The Times of India

Wire Service: PTI

http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1094979.cms

On May 2, 2005 the Press Trust of India reported, "It may not yet be called outsourcing but acute shortage of young priests is driving Catholic Churches in the US, Europe and Latin America to look to India, particularly Kerala, for them, church officials say. In the US and European countries, the 'greying' church...

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-robertson2may02,1,7606032.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

On May 2, 2005 the Los Angeles Times reported, "televangelist and one-time presidential candidate Pat Robertson praised former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani on Sunday, saying that despite disagreements on social issues, Giuliani would make 'a good president.' Appearing...

Source: Beliefnet

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/165/story_16598_1.html

On May 2, 2005 Beliefnet reported, "Ingrid Stampa...[has] long [been] known in Rome as the new pope’s trusted friend, collaborator and 'right-hand woman'...Benedict XVI has tapped Stampa, a 55-year-old German laywoman and academic who has served as his live-in personal assistant since 1991, to bring her counsel, support, and 'brain trust' role to Catholicism’s most hallowed corridor of...