by Baptist Times Staff | Aug 31, 2011 | News
Baptists in Lebanon have been reaching out to Syrian refugees streaming into their country. Members of the Baptist church in the northern Lebanon community of Rahbeh have been supporting 300 families in 15 villages in the north of the country with food, toiletries and...
by Richard Yeakley | Aug 30, 2011 | News
(RNS) When Hurricane Katrina roared ashore six years ago, it brought in its wake untold property damage and emotional distress to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, but also something deeper. “Where,” countless people asked, “was God?” Some conservative religious leaders...
by Adelle Banks | Aug 30, 2011 | News
(RNS) New York-area residents are more spiritually active since 9/11, a new survey shows, but the uptick in faith may be a matter of coincidence rather than a religious response to the terrorist attacks. The Barna Group found that 46 percent of people living in or...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 30, 2011 | News
(RNS) Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann is facing a flood of criticism for suggesting, perhaps in jest, that God sent Hurricane Irene and the East Coast earthquake to jolt Washington into changing its spendthrift ways. “I don’t know how much God has to do to get...
by Omar Sacirbey | Aug 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) A small number of conservative foundations are propelling a handful of anti-Islamic activists who are fueling rising levels of Islamophobia, according to a report issued Friday (Aug. 26) by the left-leaning Center for American Progress. The 130-page report...
by Michele Chabin | Aug 29, 2011 | News
NEW YORK (RNS) Observant Jews are permitted to sidestep traditional Sabbath rules on electronics and listen to the radio as Hurricane Irene bears down on the East Coast, according to guidelines distributed to hundreds of Orthodox rabbis. Rabbi Kenneth Brander, dean of...
