by Robert Vickers | Jan 18, 2012 | News
(RNS) The Iowa caucuses revived Rick Santorum’s underdog presidential campaign. Now an influential assortment of Christian conservatives has moved to consecrate it. On Saturday (Jan. 14), the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania sewed up the endorsement from a...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 18, 2012 | News
Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist bishops will speak to Tennessee clergy on Jan. 24 at Nashville’s Loews Vanderbilt Hotel on the situation of undocumented immigrants following a screening of a new documentary – GospelWithoutBorders. The screening panelists will...
by Alessandro Speciale | Jan 16, 2012 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Just eight months after being unveiled, a controversial statue of Pope John Paul II in Rome is receiving a major makeover. The 16-foot statue stands just outside the city’s main railway station but, since last May, it has been met by harsh criticism...
by Kimberly Winston | Jan 16, 2012 | News
(RNS) A federal judge ruled Wednesday (Jan. 11) in favor of a teenage atheist who sought the removal of a prayer banner from her Rhode Island high school. Attorneys for Jessica Ahlquist, 16, argued that a banner on display in Providence’s Cranston High School West’s...
by Adelle Banks | Jan 16, 2012 | News
(RNS) Almost half of churchgoing Americans say their life has not changed a bit due to their time in the pews, a new survey shows. Barna Group, an evangelical company based in California, found that 46 percent reported no change. About a quarter of Americans said...
by Brian Kaylor | Jan 16, 2012 | News
With one week before the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, more than 150 conservative evangelical leaders gathered on a Texas ranch in the latest effort to find a political savior. At the close of the two-day private meeting, the group emerged Saturday...
