by Josef Kuhn | Sep 15, 2011 | News
(RNS) A Presbyterian Church (USA) committee will recommend that the church add heavy equipment giant Caterpillar to its divestment list because the company profits from the “non-peaceful” use of its products by Israel against Palestinians. According to the PCUSA,...
by Francis Rocca | Sep 15, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Reconciliation between the pope and a schismatic group is impossible unless the group accepts the last half-century of modernizing reforms in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Wednesday (Sept. 14). The Vatican’s statement followed a...
by Jeffery MacDonald | Sep 14, 2011 | News
(RNS) In a last-minute bid to stop a Sept. 21 execution in Georgia, religious leaders have rallied in previously unseen numbers to call for clemency for death row inmate Troy Davis. As of Tuesday (Sept. 13), more than 3,000 religious leaders from all 50 states had...
by Francis Rocca | Sep 14, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A campaign to hold the pope responsible for “crimes against humanity” is not a publicity stunt, sex abuse victims say, even as experts doubt it will have much success at the International Criminal Court. In a dramatic and unprecedented move, abuse...
by Adelle Banks | Sep 14, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The State Department on Tuesday (Sept. 13) designated eight nations as the most serious violators of religious freedom, naming the same countries as the Bush administration. The list of “Countries of Particular Concern” includes Burma, China, Eritrea,...
by Josef Kuhn | Sep 13, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Rt. Rev. Walter C. Righter, an Episcopal bishop whose victory at a 1996 heresy trial played a key role in the push for gay rights in the church, died on Sunday (Sept. 11) at the age of 87. “I look around the Episcopal Church today where there are...
