by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 2, 2012 | News
Tennessee Republican lawmakers have filed some 30 anti-immigration bills during the current legislative session, according to the Tennessean. “It’ll always be the case that we’re trying to make sure that Tennessee is not a magnet for illegals,”...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 1, 2012 | News
(RNS) North American Muslims are more than satisfied with the secular legal system and do not want a set of parallel courts for Islamic law, according to a new study of U.S. and Canadian Muslims by a Washington-based think tank. The study, by University of Windsor law...
by Daniel Burke | Feb 1, 2012 | News
(RNS) Marvin Perkins says God led him to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — but friends advised otherwise. “Mormons, they’re prejudiced against blacks,” Perkins recalls being told. Until 1978, the LDS church banned men of...
by Kimberly Winston | Feb 1, 2012 | News
(RNS) On the eve of the 203rd anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday, lawmakers in at least four states are taking steps to hinder the teaching of evolution in public schools, while other bills would do the same without naming evolution outright. One of the...
by Rick Jervis | Jan 31, 2012 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) From Maine to Arizona to southern Louisiana, Catholic churches across the country echoed with scorn for a new federal rule requiring faith-based employers to include birth control and other reproductive services in their health care coverage. Dozens...
by David Gibson | Jan 31, 2012 | News
NEW YORK (RNS) A 67-year-old woman with a criminal record for theft has been charged with siphoning $1 million in donations while working in a finance office of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, church officials announced Monday (Jan. 30). The archdiocese...
