by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 3, 2010 | News
(RNS) Jewish and Mormon church leaders announced Wednesday (Sept. 1) that church policies preventing the posthumous baptizing of Holocaust victims have reduced tensions between them. Leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they now require...
by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 2, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A Muslim advocacy organization has released public service announcements ”including one featuring a Muslim firefighter who responded on 9/11 ”as part of a campaign to fight recent anti-Muslim bigotry. Muslim Americans were among the victims and also...
by Adelle M. Banks | Sep 2, 2010 | News
(RNS) The former president of the United Church of Christ is divorcing his wife and is in a committed relationship with a former co-worker at church headquarters, the UCC announced. The Rev. John H. Thomas was general minister and president for a decade of the...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 23, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) An appeals court ruling that said highway crosses erected to honor fallen Utah state troopers are unconstitutional could prompt additional challenges in other states, legal experts said. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday (Aug. 18)...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 20, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Two new polls say as many as one in four Americans mistakenly believe President Obama is a Muslim, presenting the White House with the unique challenge of defining a central element of the president’s life story. Asked in a Time magazine poll...
