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From nuns to 'nones,' 10 ways religion shaped the news in 2012

Truck driver pleads guilty to setting Ohio mosque on fire

by David Yonke

As bells toll, clergy push Congress on gun control

by Adelle M. Banks

Pope Paul VI is nearing sainthood status

by Alessandro Speciale

Churches under fire for using gun classes as outreach 

by Greg Horton

Report cites ways for IRS to curb lavish ministries

by Adelle M. Banks

Contraception opponents hail DC court ruling

by Lauren Markoe

Vatican works to stop Sunday shopping in Italy

by Alessandro Speciale

Unbelief is now the world's third-largest 'religion'

by Kimberly Winston

Use of death penalty grows rarer in U.S.

by Lauren Markoe

Is 'The Hobbit' a 'Christian' film? Yes and no.

by Kay Campbell and Greg Garrison

At Christmas, the babe in the manger isn't always white

by Adelle M. Banks

In Newtown churches, many questions - and tears - but few answers

by Yamiche Alcindor, Thomas Frank, Martha Moore, Laura Petrecca and Gary Stoller

Newtown shootings renew questions about evil and suffering

by Cathy Lynn Grossman

Massacre galvanizes 'cross lobby' on gun control

by Adelle M. Banks

WCC blasts U.S. for preventing event in Cuba

by Peter Kenny

Jews and Muslims applaud German vote to protect circumcision

by Lauren Markoe

Update: Evangelical grad student settles with university

by Adelle M. Banks

Gay marriage a long time coming for widow Edie Windsor

by Richard Wolf

Poll: More than one-third of Americans see signs of end times in extreme weather

by Lauren Markoe

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