by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Dec 21, 2011 | News
Six Alabama Catholic and mainline Protestant clergy have asked Gov. Robert Bentley to repeal the state’s anti-immigration law. Writing the governor on Dec. 19, they urged Bentley in the Christmas season to show “great political courage and...
by David Gibson | Dec 20, 2011 | News
NEW YORK (RNS) It is an irony of history that the Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai on two stone tablets are found in their purest form on a strip of ancient parchment so delicate that it is hardly ever seen by the public. A rare exception is...
by David Finnigan | Dec 20, 2011 | News
LOS ANGELES (RNS) The controversy between Muslim Americans and the Lowe’s home improvement chain will spill into 2012 with a planned boycott of Lowe’s for dropping its advertising from the TLC reality show “All-American Muslim.” Leaders of the Muslim Public Affairs...
by Francis Rocca | Dec 20, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A 17th-century Native American woman who cared for the sick and elderly, and a Catholic nun who worked with lepers in Hawaii, are on the verge of becoming the newest American saints, after Pope Benedict XVI certified miracles due to their...
by Baptist Times Staff | Dec 20, 2011 | News
Christians should advocate the sense of interdependence that comes from close relationships in Europe. That’s according to Tony Peck, general secretary of the European Baptist Federation, who spoke following the European Union summit, which concluded recently....
by Kimberly Winston | Dec 19, 2011 | News
(RNS) Deck those halls with boughs of apples and top that tree with a finger puppet of Sir Isaac Newton. At least that’s what Robin Zebrowski does at her home in Beloit, Wis., where she and her husband, Joshua, observe the birthday of the great 17th-century English...
