by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 21, 2015 | News
Sixty percent of U.S. adults have a positive perception of Pope Francis, up from 54 percent in 2014, according to a Barna Research Group report. The pope polled most favorably among “Gen-Xers” (born between 1965 and 1983) with 71 percent approval, a 20...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 17, 2015 | News
Nepal’s constitution, to be released on Sept. 20, will include language defining it as a secular state. In the months leading up to a formal vote on the proposed constitution, there has been a strong push to return the nation to a Hindu state, as it had been...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 16, 2015 | News
The state of Israel provides 100 percent of the funding for state-run public and Orthodox Jewish schools, compared to only 29 percent for Christian schools. The reduced funding and tightened restrictions on tuition increases led Christian schools to strike on Sept. 1....
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 14, 2015 | News
BBC News reports that nearly half a million migrants have arrived in Germany so far this year, as those fleeing war-torn countries scatter not only into neighboring lands, but even into northern Europe and the United Kingdom. Thomas Klammt, coordinator of...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 9, 2015 | News
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by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 31, 2015 | News, Opinion
The inmate population serving drug-related sentences in U.S. federal prisons has increased more than 1,800 percent since 1980. The Pew Charitable Trusts (PCT) published an issues brief that showed mandatory drug sentencing laws enacted in the 1980s and 1990s have...