Author: Nick Miroff

Source: NPR

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130108154&sc=17&f=1001

When Cuban President Raul Castro met with the country's Catholic Church leaders this summer and agreed to free dozens of political prisoners, it was a major boost to an institution facing increased competition for Cuban worshippers.

The island has undergone a spiritual revival since the communist...

Author: Ingrid Peritz

Source: The Globe and Mail

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/haitian-diaspora-spreading-the-gospel-of-voodoo/article1727147/

The stairs leading to Rolanda Delerme’s basement open onto a dazzling tableau: Pink and green feathers in jars, sequined bottles, a life-sized mannequin holding a knife, altars packed with Catholic saints.

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Author: Tony Gonzalez

Source: The News Virginian

http://www2.newsvirginian.com/news/2010/sep/21/dreadlocked-employee-claims-workplace-discriminati-ar-517768/

A Waynesboro-area man charges in a federal lawsuit that moving and storage company officials who chose not to hire him discriminated against him because of his Rastafarian religious practice of declining to cut his hair.

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Author: Adam Nossiter

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/world/africa/14benin.html?ref=religion_and_belief

This is not about secretive mutterings in the dead of night or freakish eccentrics, explained Dah Aligbonon Akpochihala, an eminent voodoo priest who has taken to the airwaves to preach the old messages of faith, fidelity and obedience integral to his religion. It is about bringing a...

Author: Mari A. Schaefer

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100731_Fired_guards_sue_Delco_prison_over_grooming_rules.html

Three former prison guards have sued the Delaware County prison, alleging religious, sexual, and racial discrimination after they were fired for not cutting their hair, which they say their religion forbids.

Nigel LeBlanc, Eugene Briggs...

Author: Mari A. Schaefer

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20100731_Fired_guards_sue_Delco_prison_over_grooming_rules.html

Three former prison guards have sued the Delaware County prison, alleging religious, sexual, and racial discrimination after they were fired for not cutting their hair, which they say their religion forbids.

Nigel LeBlanc, Eugene Briggs...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: New Zealand Herald

Wire Service: AP

Author: Staff Writer

Source: New Zealand Herald

Wire Service: AP

Author: Benjamin Koconis

Source: The Washington Informer

Source: Belief Net

Wire Service: AP

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/06/48-va-inmates-in-segregation-o.php

Nearly 50 Virginia prisoners are being held in perpetual isolation because they refuse to cut their hair, several for religious reasons.

The Associated Press reported in May that 10 Rastafarian inmates had been in segregation for more than 10 years for refusing to comply with the state's grooming policy,...

Author: Nicole Neroulias

Source: Beliefnet/Religion News Service

http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2010/06/pagans-to-pray-for-earths-heal.php

Bonfires, drum circles, dancing, candlelit meditation and other ceremonial rituals help usher in the summer solstice at the annual Pagan Spirit Gathering, now in its 30th year in the United States.

Along with celebrating the longest day of the year on Monday (June 21), this...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Merinews

http://www.merinews.com/article/hindus-urge-brazil-to-end-reported-discrimination-against-afro-brazilian-religions/15823013.shtml

Hindus have urged Brazil to look deeply into the reported discrimination against practitioners of Afro-Brazilian religions like Candomblé, Umbanda, etc., and come up with a plan to eradicate it....

Author: Dena Potter

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2010050703559.html

Kendall Gibson would seem to be one of Virginia's most dangerous prisoners.

For more than 10 years he has lived in segregation at the Greensville Correctional Center, spending at least 23 hours every day in a cell the size of a...

Author: Dena Potter

Source: The Washington Post

Wire Service: AP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/07/AR2010050703559.html

Kendall Gibson would seem to be one of Virginia's most dangerous prisoners.

For more than 10 years he has lived in segregation at the Greensville Correctional Center, spending at least 23 hours every day in a cell the size of a...

Author: Jacqueline Charles and Trenton Daniel

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/12/1576546/as-unity-unravels-a-battle-for.html

At first Haitians of all faiths turned inward, transforming their bedsheet camps into all-night religious revivals as they clung to faith and resilience, crying and praising Jezi.

But in the three months after the earthquake, the relationship among...