by Alessandro Speciale | Jan 25, 2012 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI praised new communications technologies like Twitter on Tuesday (Jan. 24), saying that even “concise phrases, often no longer than a verse from the Bible,” can convey “profound thoughts.” Benedict did not...
by Kay Campbell | Jan 25, 2012 | News
(RNS) God may hold the whole world in his hand, but persecuted Christians can now hold an entire seminary library on a fingertip. Bible League International is working with the Digital Bible Society to carry the thumbnail-sized chips to Christians in countries, such...
by Tom Haydon | Jan 25, 2012 | News
By the time she left for another job in 1999, she was vested in the hospital’s federally insured pension program — confident her earned pension of $20,000 or more a year would be there for her when she eventually retired. That confidence was shattered last...
by Omar Sacirbey | Jan 24, 2012 | News
(RNS) The recent outrage over a video allegedly showing U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters provided Americans with a disturbing reminder that war can reduce men to revenge-seeking brutality that defies human norms. It’s nothing new: the desecration...
by Al Webb | Jan 24, 2012 | News
LONDON (RNS) In the first case of its kind, a British court has convicted three Muslim men — who claimed they were acting under teachings of their religion — of openly advocating the execution of gays. Jurors in Derby, England, on Friday (Jan. 20) found...
by David Gibson | Jan 24, 2012 | News
(RNS) If there’s one thing the fractious Republican field agrees on, it’s that personal religious devotion is central to their campaign message. Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and even Ron Paul stress their faith on the stump; Romney plays up...
