by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 11, 2010 | News
(RNS) Advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse have blasted the Episcopal Church for reinstating the bishop of Philadelphia who had been charged with not investigating sex abuse allegations about his brother. A church appeals court ruled July 28 that Bishop Charles...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) has decided to permit women to serve on local church councils but has maintained its rule that they cannot be ordained as bishops. By a narrow vote during its recent General Assembly, the denomination changed its policy on...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 9, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Episcopal bishop of Philadelphia was reinstated after a church court dismissed charges that he had failed to act on allegations that his brother, a fellow priest, was engaged in sexual abuse of a minor in the 1970s. The Episcopal Church’s Court of...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 5, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A federal appeals court has sided with a prison system whose policy forbids Muslim women employees from wearing headscarves on the job. In a 2-1 decision issued Tuesday (Aug. 3), the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the dispute a close case...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) Focus on the Family has announced 110 job cuts in the latest round of layoffs that the Colorado ministry attributes to the departure of founder James Dobson and the reduced financial support from donors. This is not a happy time, obviously, having to say...
