{"id":123,"date":"2010-05-17T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/what-ive-missed-top-5-religion-headlines-of-the-past-week.html"},"modified":"2010-05-17T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T12:30:00","slug":"what-ive-missed-top-5-religion-headlines-of-the-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/what-ive-missed-top-5-religion-headlines-of-the-past-week.html","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Missed: Top 5 Religion Headlines of the Past Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from my family trip to London, Cyprus and Greece &#8212; narrowly missing volcanic ash and British Airways strike delays along the way &#8212; and&nbsp;I&#8217;ve learned&nbsp;three things that relate to the religion beat: the average Cypriot doesn&#8217;t know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papalvisit.org.cy\/cgibin\/hweb?-V=index&amp;_FAA=1&amp;-dindex.html&amp;_VLANGUAGE=en\">Pope Benedict XVI is visiting in a few weeks<\/a>, the average Greek doesn&#8217;t know that Athens (the last European capital to do so)&nbsp;has finally<a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/05\/11\/2394752\/greek-holocaust-memorial-unveiled\">&nbsp;unveiled a Holocaust memorial,<\/a> and the average Brit is far more concerned about the recent elections, air travel problems and other current events than any hypothetical <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/04\/pope-watch-protesters-target-pontiffs-travel-plans-threaten-arrest.html\">calls to have the pope arrested during his United Kingdom trip<\/a> this fall.<\/p>\n<p>(Also on a related religion note:&nbsp;the average baby&nbsp;cries&nbsp;during part of&nbsp;a Greek Orthodox baptism, but a jetlagged baby wails continuously. Sigh.)<\/p>\n<p>While I get my Seattle legs back, here are my picks for the top five religion headlines&nbsp;this past week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-eu-pope-portugal,0,4694937.story\">Pope Benedict visits Portugal, talks about abuse, abortion, same-sex marriage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2010\/0517\/1224270548949.html\">Swedish Muhammad cartoonist has gone into hiding after attacks, threats from Muslim extremists<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=69916\">Controversial Mojave Desert cross stolen, after SCOTUS ruling permits the display<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/13\/nyregion\/13synagogue.html\">Questioned raised about Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan&#8217;s beliefs, sexuality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20100517\/NEWS05\/5170417\/1318\/Metro-Detroit-celebrates-Miss-USAs-first-Arab-American-winner\">Rima Fakih: First Arab American woman (from a Muslim Lebanese family) crowned Miss USA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from my family trip to London, Cyprus and Greece &#8212; narrowly missing volcanic ash and British Airways strike delays along the way &#8212; and&nbsp;I&#8217;ve learned&nbsp;three things that relate to the religion beat: the average Cypriot doesn&#8217;t know that Pope Benedict XVI is visiting in a few weeks, the average Greek doesn&#8217;t know that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What I&#039;ve Missed: Top 5 Religion Headlines of the Past Week - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/what-ive-missed-top-5-religion-headlines-of-the-past-week.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What I&#039;ve Missed: Top 5 Religion Headlines of the Past Week - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m back from my family trip to London, Cyprus and Greece &#8212; 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