by Lauren Markoe | Sep 1, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Two Muslim congressmen and other prominent Muslims have urged Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured in a cross-border raid five years ago and has been held ever since in the Gaza Strip. Their hope is that Shalit’s release...
by Alessandro Speciale | Sep 1, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican took a swipe at new sex education classes in New York City schools on Wednesday (Aug. 31), saying teaching middle school students how to use a condom is “useless, and even harmful.” The front-page editorial of the Vatican’s official...
by Baptist Times Staff | Sep 1, 2011 | News
A former drug dealer once jailed for cocaine smuggling will begin a full-time ministerial post at a Baptist church in Wales today. Pastor Brian Morris was jailed for 12 years back in 1995, but he gave his life to Jesus shortly after being arrested. A student at South...
by Jeffrey MacDonald | Aug 31, 2011 | News
WENHAM, Mass. (RNS) For the past decade, sociologist D. Michael Lindsay has been living the very phenomenon he’s studied in depth: evangelicals climbing the ranks of secular institutions and becoming American elites. Yet in a surprise move, this 39-year-old rising...
by Adelle Banks | Aug 31, 2011 | News
(RNS) Pop quiz: Who said “We often suffer, but we are never crushed. Even when we don’t know what to do, we never give up”? According to a recent poll, more Americans attributed the passage to comic book hero Captain America, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and former...
by Haya El Nasser | Aug 31, 2011 | News
(RNS) Almost half the nation’s estimated 2.8 million Muslims fault their leaders for not speaking out against Islamic extremists, but a vast majority are far more satisfied than Americans overall with the way things are going in this country, according to a major...
