by Jack Jenkins | Jul 8, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Three church-state activist groups criticized the Army for allowing an evangelical concert at North Carolina’s Fort Bragg but not making similar provisions for a “Rock Beyond Belief” concert for nonbelievers. The three groups—Americans United for...
by Adelle Banks | Jul 8, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Crystal Cathedral, which has put its iconic campus up for sale to end a bankruptcy crisis, has an interested party that needs a large cathedral: the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, Calif. The diocese—the nation’s 11th largest—does not have its own...
by Chase Hall | Jul 8, 2011 | News
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) As Mormon leaders seek to add more senior couples to their shrinking missionary force, they’re hoping that less will mean more: less time and expense, more missionaries. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that, come...
by Cathleen Falsani | Jul 7, 2011 | News
(RNS) St. Patrick’s tooth. Justin Bieber’s hair clippings. The bloodstained gloves that Mary Todd Lincoln carried to Ford’s Theatre. What do they have in common? They are relics—prized keepsakes, preserved because of their association with significant people and...
by Lauren Markoe | Jul 7, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Episcopal Church is rejecting charges that its top leader, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, mishandled the ordination of a former priest who is now accused of sexual abuse. Jefferts Schori has remained silent on the matter, which...
by Jack Jenkins | Jul 7, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Dalai Lama celebrated his 76th birthday in Washington on Wednesday (July 6) by speaking before throngs of well-wishers and kicking off an 11-day peace event in the U.S. capital. Sporting traditional Tibetan Buddhist robes and a red visor, the...
