by Steve Mayes | Sep 29, 2011 | News
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) Two years to the day after their newborn son died, two parents accused of choosing faith healing over medical care said Tuesday (Sept. 27) that given the chance, they would do nothing differently. Dale and Shannon Hickman are charged with...
by Adelle Banks | Sep 29, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom advocates rallied Wednesday (Sept. 28) around an Iranian pastor who is facing execution because he has refused to recant his Christian faith in the overwhelmingly Muslim country. The British-based group Christian Solidarity Worldwide...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 29, 2011 | News
A district judge upheld Wednesday most parts of an Alabama law passed in June that is widely considered the nation’s harshest anti-immigration law. U.S. District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn had temporarily blocked the law’s enforcement in late August...
by Michele Chabin | Sep 28, 2011 | News
JERUSALEM (RNS) Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls that have been stored for decades in a climate-controlled exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem are now available in digital form to anyone with an Internet connection. A website (http://dss.collections.imj.org.il)...
by Al Webb | Sep 28, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) British Christians are incensed after the state-funded BBC decided to jettison the terms B.C. and A.D. in favor of B.C.E. and C.E. in historical date references. The broadcaster has directed that the traditional B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini,...
by Kim Lanier | Sep 28, 2011 | News
BAY MINETTE, Ala. (RNS) An alternative sentencing plan that would give inmates the choice between time in jail or a year in church will be delayed for several weeks while lawyers review it to make sure there are no legal issues. The American Civil Liberties Union of...
