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February 6, 2010 - The Australian
The ideal of a united Malaysia is under strain
What's happening with Malaysia?
February 5, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal
Keeping faith, courting conservatives
President Barack Obama's willingness to keep Bush-era policies on government-backed religious charities has angered many liberals but is helping to woo traditionally Republican evangelical leaders who can influence key blocs of voters.
February 5, 2010 - The Wall Street Journal
Iraq delays start of parliamentary election campaigns
Iraq's electoral commission has delayed by five days the start of campaigning for parliamentary elections so the nation's high court could rule on whether a decision to ban certain candidates was constitutional.
February 5, 2010 - The Irish Times
Obama keeps faith as prayer breakfast criticised
The U.S. president, first lady, vice-president, secretary of state and a host of elected officials yesterday ignored appeals from government watchdogs, secularists and civil and gay rights movements that they boycott the National Prayer Breakfast.
February 4, 2010 - Religion News Service
Obama challenges evangelicals on Uganda, citizenship
President Obama chided conservative religious and political leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday (Feb. 4), condemning an anti-gay bill in Uganda and challenging them not to
question his faith or his citizenship.
February 4, 2010 - The Economist
Tibet: pilgrims and progress
On the corner of Ramoche Temple Road, a bustling alley where the ethnic violence that engulfed Lhasa nearly two years ago first broke out, finishing touches are being put to a fried-chicken fast-food restaurant.
February 4, 2010 - The Associated Press
Denied religious CD, Virginia inmate sues
A Virginia inmate claims in a lawsuit that prison officials violated his right to exercise his religious beliefs when they refused to let him order a sermon on compact disc.
February 4, 2010 - The Salt Lake Tribune
TV: Super Bowl ads stir controversy
Never accuse television network executives of being consistent.
February 4, 2010 - The Washington Post
Obama to meet with Dalai Lama in mid-February
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to visit Washington on Feb. 17-18 and, despite China's opposition, is expected to meet President Obama, sources close to the exiled Tibetan leader said Wednesday.
February 4, 2010 - The New York Times
Chaplain is found with blades at city jail
A Muslim chaplain for the city’s Department of Correction showed up for work on Wednesday as he routinely does — entering the city jail in Lower Manhattan to minister to some of the roughly 900 male inmates there.
