by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 9, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Leaders of three Sikh organizations say they’ve been told by federal transportation officials that turbans will always be searched at U.S. airports, a move that Sikh officials called unnecessary and unfair. Representatives of the Sikh Coalition,...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 8, 2010 | News
(RNS) A Muslim advocacy group filed suit Thursday (Nov. 4) in Oklahoma, saying a just-passed amendment forbidding judicial use of Islamic law is unconstitutional. The suit, filed by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, seeks a federal...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 4, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Is a state law that allows tax credits for donations to scholarship programs unconstitutional if most of the recipients attend religious schools? That’s the question the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with Wednesday (Nov. 3), centered around an Arizona...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 1, 2010 | News
(RNS) The most religious Americans also have the highest rates of well-being, according to a new Gallup survey. The finding is based on a survey of more than 550,000 people about their physical and emotional health and their work environment. Overall, the very...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 1, 2010 | News
(RNS) President Obama plans to visit one of the world’s largest mosques during his trip to Indonesia in November, the White House announced Thursday (Oct. 28). The visit to Istiqlal Mosque on Nov. 10 will precede a speech about U.S. outreach to Muslims throughout the...
