Coming up, our special program looking back at the top religion and ethics stories of 2012 welcome. Im bob abernethy, and this is our annual look back at the top religion and ethics news of the year. Religion and ethics managing editor kim lawton is here, and so are kevin kstr, edor i ief Religion News service, and e. J. Dionne, senior fellow at the brookings institution, professor at Georgetown University and columnist for the washington post. Welcome to you all. Kim has put together a short video reminder of what happened in 2012. A wave of Mass Shootings renewed ageold theological discussions about evil, suffering and tragedy. Especially after the massacre at the connecticut elementary school, many religious leaders repeated calls for stricter gun control measures. Some called it a prolife issue. One of the Mass Shootings took place in a house of worship. In august, six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin. Once again, religion played
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US evangelical leaders and thousands of Copts honor an Orthodox priest whose cave church complex chiseled the glory of God into Egypt’s “Garbage City.”
Thousands of Copts from across the nation flocked to the city of Cairo on Friday to participate in the funeral prayer of the late hegumen Samaan Ibrahim Musa, the shepherd and founder of the St. Simon Monastery in Mokattam, and one of the most famous Christian clerics inside Egypt and abroad.