by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 6, 2011 | News
Georgia’s newly adopted anti-immigration law is credited with driving undocumented migrants from the state and costing the agricultural industry almost $400 million. “Georgia’s economy is projected to shrink by $391 million and lose 3,260 jobs as a...
by Niels Sorrells | Oct 6, 2011 | News
BERLIN (RNS) New guidelines issued by Germany’s largest Protestant body advised parishioners to not invest in companies that make hard liquor, while beer and wine producers are fine. The guidelines, issued by the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Germany, are meant to...
by Greg Garrison | Oct 6, 2011 | News
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (RNS) The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 89. Shuttlesworth said he never feared death, and repeatedly put...
by Omar Sacirbey | Oct 6, 2011 | News
(RNS) Radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead, but the power of the Internet means he won’t soon be forgotten. And that, experts say, could make him just as dangerous dead as he was alive. Counterterrorism experts say al-Awlaki, who was killed by a...
by Michele Chabin | Oct 6, 2011 | News
JERUSALEM (RNS) Israel’s chief rabbis are among the Jews in Israel and abroad who have strongly condemned an arson attack on a mosque in northern Israel. The rabbis made a solidarity visit to the Israeli Arab village of Tuba Zanghariya, near Galilee, on Monday (Oct....
by Rebecca Weber | Oct 6, 2011 | News
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (RNS) An invitation to an 80th birthday party rarely causes ripples—unless it’s the Dalai Lama who’s trying to attend birthday festivities for fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The Dalai Lama will be unable to attend...
