by Donald Gilliland | Jul 19, 2011 | News
HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) Two of the most influential forces in conservative lobbying are poised to go head-to-head this fall over an issue that some Pennsylvania lawmakers dread might be one of the most difficult of the session. It’s the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau vs. the...
by Mark Schroeder | Jul 19, 2011 | News
MILWAUKEE (RNS) Recent news reports have thrust the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) into the middle of a presidential campaign. What has catapulted this relatively small Lutheran church body into the media spotlight is the fact that, until recently,...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jul 19, 2011 | News
The church has a crucial peace-building role to play in South Sudan, the world’s newest country, according to a Baptist leader there. Rev. Ramadan Chan Liol, general secretary of the Sudan Interior Church, which is affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance,...
by Kim Lawton | Jul 18, 2011 | News
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) For millennia, people have been trying to imagine what happens after death. Is there an afterlife, a heaven? Who gets in? And what happens to those who don’t? Books trying to provide answers to these age-old questions continue to be...
by Lauren Markoe | Jul 18, 2011 | News
(RNS) Abercrombie & Fitch violated civil rights law when the clothier refused to hire a Muslim woman because she wears a headscarf, a federal district court has ruled. “We were very excited to hear that the judge made the right decision in finding that Abercrombie...
by Francis Rocca | Jul 18, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Ireland’s prime minister said Catholic priests could be jailed for failing to report child sex abuse crimes they hear during the sacrament of confession, regardless of the confidentiality imposed by church law. “The law of the land should not be...
