come out with a war on religion and now, the white house is ready to walk back its decision to make catholic institutions pay for employee s birth control and a source according to a white house source, the administration is going to talk about it at least later on. the white house held a news conference. a conference call with religious activists today promising to make religious universities and hospitals exception. an announcement is expected from the president next hour. 12:15, the president will talk about that. we will carry that for you live on cnn. and we are going now to syria. that s what it looks like, tens of thousands of syrians are holding demonstrations across the country today. this one is in hama. the crowd is chanting support for the people of homs who have been under heavy bombardment all week long. today s nationwide demonstrations were also called to show opposition to russia for its veto of a u.n. resolution condemning the violence. women and children