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• Ohio church offers drive-thru for Ash Wednesday (AP)
• Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive' (AP)
• Schools work to balance gay, religious rights (AP)
• Pope marks Ash Wednesday (AP)
• NJ gov: Report of spying on Muslims 'disturbing' (AP)
• Newark mayor: NYPD misled city on Muslim spying (AP)
• Ex-director: Local NJ police didn't spy on Muslims (AP)
• Tibetans mark new year under shadow of immolations (Reuters)
• Israel top court scraps pious Jews' draft exemption (Reuters)
• NYC mayor, Yale pres on police checking on Muslims (AP)

Ohio church offers drive-thru for Ash Wednesday (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:59 PM PST AP - An Ohio church is offering a drive-thru Ash Wednesday blessing for parishioners pressed for time or reluctant to come inside the church for the Lenten observance.

Newark mayor: NYPD Muslim files 'deeply offensive' (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 04:03 PM PST AP - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighborhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

Schools work to balance gay, religious rights (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 03:45 PM PST AP - Dozens of colleges have scrutinized how on-campus Christian groups operate after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowed a law school to deny funding to a Christian group that would not admit gays.

Pope marks Ash Wednesday (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:45 PM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI rode on a motorized cart in an Ash Wednesday procession, forsaking the traditional short walk between two Rome churches as the 84-year-old pontiff tries to conserve his energy.

NJ gov: Report of spying on Muslims 'disturbing' (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 12:06 PM PST AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is calling a report of a police surveillance operation targeting Muslims in Newark "disturbing." He also says he doesn't recall ever being briefed about the spying in 2007 while he was the state's top federal prosecutor.

Newark mayor: NYPD misled city on Muslim spying (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 11:36 AM PST AP - Newark Mayor Cory Booker and his top police official say the city was misled by the New York Police Department and never would have authorized such wholesale spying on Muslims if they had known about it.

Ex-director: Local NJ police didn't spy on Muslims (AP) Posted: 22 Feb 2012 08:05 AM PST AP - A former police director of New Jersey's largest city says no local officers were used in a spying operation that monitored and catalogued his city's Muslim neighborhoods.

Tibetans mark new year under shadow of immolations (Reuters) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 11:50 PM PST Reuters - Tibetans in northwest China marked a tense traditional new year with prayer, the sounding of a gong and subdued defiance on Wednesday, in the wake of a string of self-immolations and protests against Chinese control.

Israel top court scraps pious Jews' draft exemption (Reuters) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 10:03 PM PST Reuters - Israel's top court struck down on Tuesday a law designed to encourage ultra-Orthodox Jews to join the military and the workforce, saying it had backfired by "entrenching" their blanket draft exemptions and protracted seminary studies.

NYC mayor, Yale pres on police checking on Muslims (AP) Posted: 21 Feb 2012 07:59 PM PST AP - Yale President Richard Levin condemned the New York Police Department's monitoring of Muslim student associations in a letter on Monday:

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