by Adelle Banks | Sep 22, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The independent and bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom could be forced to shut its doors if the Senate does not vote by week’s end to reauthorize the panel. The commission appears to be in legislative limbo after the House...
by Adelle Banks | Sep 15, 2011 | News
(RNS) Don’t look for children’s Sunday school classes at Ridgewood Church in Port Arthur, Texas. And forget about scavenger hunts and water park trips: the youth ministry is no more. Sound like a dying church? No, it’s a family-integrated congregation, whose leaders...
by Adelle Banks | Sep 14, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The State Department on Tuesday (Sept. 13) designated eight nations as the most serious violators of religious freedom, naming the same countries as the Bush administration. The list of “Countries of Particular Concern” includes Burma, China, Eritrea,...
by Adelle Banks | Sep 2, 2011 | News
(RNS) In a new book, the Rev. Gardner Taylor, a retired pastor known nationally as the dean of African-American preachers, decries the treatment of President Obama by his critics. Taylor, 93, was particularly disturbed when Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., declared “you lie”...
by Adelle Banks | Aug 31, 2011 | News
(RNS) Pop quiz: Who said “We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up”? According to a recent poll, more Americans attributed the passage to comic book hero Captain America, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and former...
