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• U.S. rule highlights Catholic tensions over contraception
• John Fugelsang will take on religious right on new TV show
• Peruvian university worries Opus Dei behind dispute with Church
• Ahead of the Bell: True Religion Apparel
• First clashes near Christian areas of Damascus: NGO
• Dawn clashes in Christian neighborhood of Damascus

U.S. rule highlights Catholic tensions over contraception Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:25 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New rules requiring free access to prescription birth control for women with health insurance go into effect on Wednesday, but controversy lingers at some Catholic institutions struggling to balance the requirement with their opposition to contraception. At Georgetown University, the nation's oldest Catholic university, students and administration officials are still wrestling with the requirement to cover contraceptives as part of larger effort to expand no-cost preventive care for women. The requirement exempts churches and gives religious groups a one-year reprieve. ...

John Fugelsang will take on religious right on new TV show Posted: 01 Aug 2012 04:21 PM PDT NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - "I want to do a show that takes on Chick-Fil-A and the Westboro Baptist Church using the bible," Current TV's new primetime host John Fugelsang told TheWrap on Wednesday. Comedian Fugelsang will take on the religious right in a new primetime show the network announced earlier on Wednesday. In addition to being a comedian, Fugelsang is a frequent guest on cable news programming and over the past few months has filled in for Current hosts Eliot Spitzer and Jennifer Granholm. "As Gov. Granholm focuses on democratic politics and Gov. ...

Peruvian university worries Opus Dei behind dispute with Church Posted: 01 Aug 2012 12:13 PM PDT (Reuters) - One of Peru's top universities says it thinks maneuvers by the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei are behind the school's high-profile falling out with the Vatican. In a dispute that could drag Peru and the Vatican into a diplomatic spat, the Catholic Church ordered the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) in a July letter to drop the words "pontifical" and "Catholic" from the official name it has been using for more than 60 years. ...

Ahead of the Bell: True Religion Apparel Posted: 01 Aug 2012 06:24 AM PDT Shares of True Religion Apparel Inc. plummeted nearly 15 percent before the market open on Wednesday as the clothing company's second-quarter revenue performance missed Wall Street's expectations. It also ...

First clashes near Christian areas of Damascus: NGO Posted: 01 Aug 2012 02:56 AM PDT Clashes erupted near two Christian areas of the Syrian capital Wednesday for the first time in the nearly 17-month uprising, as the battle for Aleppo entered its fifth day and President Bashar al-Assad hailed the "heroic" army.

Dawn clashes in Christian neighborhood of Damascus Posted: 01 Aug 2012 01:33 AM PDT The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says one person has been killed in clashes that erupted at dawn in a Christian neighborhood in the old city of Damascus.

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