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Pakistan religious party condemns drone attacks
Over 100,000 supporters of Pakistan's largest religious political party gathered in Karachi on Friday and condemned drone attacks by the United States in the country's troubled northwest.

Religious groups prepare to fight birth-control ruling
Groups would have to offer birth control to employees Church officials and other religious-based groups are gearing up to fight an order by the Obama administration that they include birth control in employee health plans — a requirement some say could threaten the protection of other moral beliefs and practices.

Religious order wins ruling
Religious order wins ruling Times Union Copyright 2012 Times Union. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 09:19 p.m., Thursday, January 26, 2012 ALBANY — A state appeals court on Thursday affirmed that the Doane Stuart School owes back rent to a Catholic order from which it leased land on the Kenwood Campus for nearly 35 years ...

Feds: Religious employers must cover the pill
Many church-affiliated institutions will have to cover free birth control for their employees, the Obama administration announced Friday in an election-year decision certain to upset conservativ...

Why Religion Makes Only Some of Us Happy
Religious people tend to feel better about themselves and their lives, but a new study finds that this benefit may only hold in places where everyone else is religious, too.

Religious institutions' health plans must offer birth control
The Obama administration's decision angers religious leaders who fought the rule, but organizations such as Catholic hospitals will get an extra year to comply. The Obama administration announced Friday that it would give Catholic hospitals and other religious institutions an extra year to comply with a new requirement that most health plans provide contraceptive benefits at no cost to their ...

Religious leaders demand answers about overcrowded morgue
Local religious leaders are demanding answers, as to why human remains have been piling up at the Cook County morgue.