Christianity Today

Increasing political opposition to the regime has intensified religious persecution. Christians are high on the regime’s enemies list. (Forbes)

Evangelical Christians say they are the new victims of intolerance - they're persecuted for condemning homosexuality (CNN)

Police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Muslims who surrounded a Coptic church in anger over an alleged inter-faith relationship (Associated Press)

Three years into his presidency, Obama’s marquee council of faith advisers has gone dark — a little-noticed postscript for a panel that he rolled out with fanfare and high expectations during his first weeks in office but ended up playing only a limited role in West Wing deliberations. (Politico)

It seems George W. Bush’s “armies of compassion” have become Barack Obama’s armies of contraception. (Jim Towey, The Hill)

At least $140 million in stimulus money has gone to faith-based groups, the result of an unpublicized White House decision to spend government money, where legal, supporting religiously inspired nonprofit groups. And that decision was just the beginning. (Politico)

Questions from the Supreme Court justices during the hearing centered on how to differentiate between photography being a business or protected artistic expression (Associated Press)

Wagner argued that she was denied a promotion at the U of I law school’s writing center because of her conservative history, including work with the Family Research Council (The Des Moines Register)

A Christian school in Thousand Oaks and two former teachers are fighting over the school's demand that its employees provide proof of faith (Ventura County Star)

The city of Dearborn accepted a settlement agreement that includes a public apology to three Christian missionaries who claim their Constitutional rights were violated during the annual 2012 Dearborn Arab Festival. (MLive.com)

Evangelical Christians say they are the new victims of intolerance - they're persecuted for condemning homosexuality (CNN)

In what may be the first such instance in Kazakhstan, a court has ordered religious literature to be destroyed. A total of 121 books confiscated from a Baptist, Vyacheslav Cherkasov, were ordered destroyed in the northern Akmola Region (Forum 18)

National advocacy groups have focused much of their efforts in Texas, most recently over Hays County commissioners opening their meetings with prayer, the Cedar Park Police Department putting a cross on its chaplain’s seal and Kountze High School cheerleaders carrying Christian signs at football games (Austin American-Statesman)

Four Christians went to the European Human Rights Court this week to complain that their faith was under fire in the workplace. Do believers have an absolute right to religious expression at work, or do the requirements of employers and the rights of other members of society come first? (International Herald Tribune)

Petition for certiorari filed (Religion Clause)