by Kimberly Winston | Dec 22, 2011 | News
(RNS) If Dec. 10 had been an average day for Doctors Without Borders, the Swiss charity that sends medical help into crisis areas, its website would have logged 4,000 hits. Instead, it was bombarded with more than 10 times that amount as atheists from the...
by Mark Gillispie | Dec 22, 2011 | News
CLEVELAND (RNS) Federal prosecutors have expanded their case against members of a breakaway Amish sect for their roles in shaving the hair and beards of people considered to be their religious enemies. An indictment issued Tuesday (Dec. 20) in U.S. District Court...
by Baptist Times Staff | Dec 22, 2011 | News
The only evangelical church in one of the most fiercely Muslim areas of the world is under severe pressure, according to Christian missionary Brother Andrew. The founder of OpenDoors said Gaza Baptist Church is a “functioning church” but also a...
by Kevin Allen | Dec 21, 2011 | News
DEARBORN, Mich. (RNS) When Fordson High School football coach Fouad Zaban was asked to be on a reality show about Muslim family life, his impulse was to decline. “It doesn’t seem like it now, but we kind of like our privacy,” Zaban said. “We are simple people. We...
by Jeffery MacDonald | Dec 21, 2011 | News
(RNS) With 2.18 billion adherents, Christianity has become a truly global religion over the past century as rapid growth in developing nations offset declines in Christianity’s traditional strongholds, according to a report released Monday (Dec. 19). Billed as the...
by Lauren Markoe | Dec 21, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Americans: the most generous people in the world. In this season of giving, that’s no idle gloat. According to a new study, the United States tops a massive global charity survey, rising from fifth place in 2010. The “World Giving Index,” based on...
