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8 April 2012

Lebanon: Palm Sunday and Easter Celebrations

Written by Ayesha Saldanha · Middle East & North Africa

In Lebanon two Christian celebrations took place on April 8, 2012 as churches following the Gregorian calendar celebrated Easter Sunday and churches following the Julian calendar celebrated Palm Sunday.

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Israel: Tweeting the Passover Seder

Written by Elizabeth Tsurkov · Middle East & North Africa

The Jewish holiday of Passover began on the night of Friday April 6, and millions of Israelis gathered for the Seder, the traditional ritual feast. The Seder is infamous as an occasion when one is forced to spend time with disagreeable family members. Israeli Twitter users, known for their sense of humor and cynicism, could be counted on to tweet their Passover Seder experiences.

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7 April 2012

Russia: Watching News of Patriarch Kirill's Watch Travel

Written by Donna Welles · Eastern & Central Europe

Observers watched this week as a controversy that began in the Russian blogosphere concerning an altered photograph of the Patriarch's watch on the official site of the Russian Orthodox Church spread to Western blogs as well as to mainstream Western sources.

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2 April 2012

Nigeria: Online Furore Over #DominionAir

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike · Sub-Saharan Africa

Why would the advent of another brand name into the Nigerian aviation space generate so much public discourse? It happens that this is no usual airline: it is alleged to be owned by a Nigerian Evangelical “prosperity” minister, Bishop David Oyedepo.

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30 March 2012

Kuwait: Call to Kill the “Infidel” Twitter User

Written by Mona Kareem · Middle East & North Africa

A Kuwaiti Twitter user has been detained, pending investigation, over a tweet in which he allegedly insulted Prophet Mohammed. The issue is taking a sectarian twist in Kuwait as the Twitter user Hamad Al-Naqi denies the charges, claiming that his account was hacked, while others charge that it is a Shiite attack on Sunni Islam. Meanwhile, a protest was held calling for the Twitter user to be killed for his alleged blasphemy.

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29 March 2012

This Week in the Caribbean Blogosphere

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

Again this week, the regional blogosphere was dominated by talk of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba. With reports of repression at an all-time high, Cuban bloggers were dismayed by the outcome of the trip.

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28 March 2012

Pakistan: Demand for Independence of Sindh

Written by Aamir Raz Soomro · South Asia

A freedom march organized by one of the biggest Sindhi nationalist parties, has drawn a huge crowd in Karachi city. The news was either blocked or under-reported in most of the Pakistani mainstream Urdu media channels.

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Cuba: Who will the Pope Support?

Written by Rafael Gonzalez · Translated by Kathryn Morgan · Latin America

Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Santiago de Cuba on Monday, the second visit by a Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church to the island in 14 years. The web, especially Twitter, has become a battleground for dissidents and government supporters.

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27 March 2012

Mexico: Protests and Celebrations Mark Pope Benedict's Visit

Written by J. Tadeo · Translated by Rebecca Knaggs · Latin America

On the streets and via social networks, Mexicans celebrated as well as protested (even with nudity) the pastoral visit of the Pope of the Catholic Church, Benedict XVI, to Guanajuato from March 23 to 26, 2012.

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Cuba: Pope Benedict XVI Takes a Glance at Cuba's Future

Written by Elaine Díaz · Translated by Elizabeth · Caribbean

Pope Benedict XVI's arrival at the western province Santiago de Cuba placed the Caribbean nation at the Twitter Trending Topics. Blogs and social media are raging with netizen's opinions on the Pope's visit to the island.

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Updates about Religion

31 March 2012

India

Ugich Konitari at Gappa writes about the VIP pilgrims of the famous Hill Temple at Tirupati, who keep the ordinary pilgrims waiting for many hours for their chance to perform rituals. “Should money be the deciding factor in defining classes of worship?” the blogger asks.

• Rezwan

25 March 2012

Pakistan

Zia Ur Rehman reports that an awareness campaign against the horrible atrocities by the religious group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has begun in Karachi. An NGO named Anjuman-e-Muhibban Pakistan (Organisation of Lovers of Pakistan) launched the campaign.

• Rezwan

22 March 2012

Pakistan

The Horizon reports that a religious party in Pakistan demanded in an anti-Ahmadiyya conference held in Lahore that “those considered apostate by the Muslims clerics should be put to sword, a view developed through the dark ages of the Muslim Ummah”.

• Rezwan

20 March 2012

Egypt

From Egypt, Zeinobia covers Pope Shenoda's funeral in Cairo in this blog post.

• Amira Al Hussaini

13 March 2012

Cuba

Havana Times says that “everything seems to be ready to welcome the Pope, who will visit Cuba from March 26 to 28″, while babalu cautions that “with the upcoming Papal visit to Cuba, it's important to remember who the real Catholics in Cuba are.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

12 March 2012

Cuba

Pedazos de la Isla says that the closer the Pope's visit to Cuba gets, the more the authorities appear to be clamping down on citizens.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Pakistan

Pakistan Blogzine reports that the Pakistan government has banned the extremist Deobandi Jihadi-sectarian organization Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) which has been condemned by right wing political parties like Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa.

• Rezwan

9 March 2012

China

A number of Tibetans activists launched a signature campaign urging Tibetans to cease self-immolation and to cherish their lives in a time of oppression. Via Woser's blog.

• Oiwan Lam

8 March 2012

Cuba

El Cafe Cubano reports that Cardinal Jaime Ortega has met with the Ladies in White to inform them that the Pope's schedule is “too busy” and he will likely not be able to meet with them during his visit; Translating Cuba, meanwhile, publishes a letter to the Pope in which Jeovany Jimenez Vega tells him about “the desperate economic situation” in the country.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

6 March 2012

Cuba

“The recent months leading up to Pope Benedict’s visit to Cuba have been marked by state violence against peaceful dissidents”: Pedazos de la Isla reports that a former prisoner of conscience is calling on “all Cubans in and out of the island to pressure Pope Benedict XVI so that he at least meet with figures of the Resistance” in order to let the pontiff know “what really happens here on the island.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

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