by Adelle Banks | Aug 4, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) More than 250 colleges, universities and seminaries have submitted plans to the White House for yearlong interfaith service projects in response to a campaign launched by the Obama administration. Joshua DuBois, director of the White House Office of...
by Peggy Fletcher Stack | Aug 4, 2011 | News
(RNS) Mormon founder Joseph Smith may have declared all churches to be wrong, even apostate, but he also defined Mormonism as “an inclusivist faith that not only sees and appreciates goodness and truth in other religious traditions but is willing to acknowledge divine...
by Baptist Times Staff | Aug 4, 2011 | News
Supporters of a Nepali Baptist couple seeking asylum in Great Britain claim they were verbally abused and the husband physically assaulted by U.K. Border Agency (UKBA) guards. Govinda Pokharel and Jamuna Rijal were in the process of being deported recently. However,...
by Adelle Banks | Aug 3, 2011 | News
(RNS) Women, long considered the dominant pew dwellers in the nation’s churches, have shown a dramatic drop in attendance in the last two decades, a new survey shows. Since 1991, the percentage of women attending church during a typical week has decreased by 11...
by Kent Faulk | Aug 3, 2011 | News
(RNS) Leaders of the Episcopal, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches in Alabama filed a federal lawsuit on Monday (Aug. 1) to stop enforcement of the state’s new immigration law, which they say could strike at the core of their ability to worship. The lawsuit was...
by Lauren Markoe | Aug 3, 2011 | News
(RNS) Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, an extensive new survey of Muslims finds them as optimistic as other Americans, even as large minorities of Christian Americans question Muslims’ loyalty to the United States. The survey, released Tuesday (Aug. 2) by the Gallup...
