by David McCollum | Jun 28, 2011 | News
The accused, who has often admitted guilt and asks for grace, is placed in the middle of a large circle. The villagers, some of whom are victims, gather about him. One by one, those in the outer circle remind the guilty person in the middle of something good he has...
by Omar Sacirbey | Jun 27, 2011 | News
(RNS) A new report asserts that anti-Muslim prejudice has worsened in recent years, but argues the trend could be reversed with greater community outreach. The report, “Same Hate, New Target: Islamophobia and its Impact in the United States,” was released Thursday...
by Francis Rocca | Jun 27, 2011 | News
(RNS) In a conciliatory gesture regarding one of the most sensitive points of Jewish-Catholic relations, Israel’s ambassador to the Vatican praised the controversial wartime Pope Pius XII for his “actions to save the Jews” during the Holocaust. Mordechay Lewy made his...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Jun 27, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Saudi Arabian embassy on Friday (June 24) denied as “completely false” reports that U.S. Jews would not be able to travel to Saudi Arabia under Delta Air Line’s planned partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines. U.S. Jewish groups had criticized...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 27, 2011 | News
Two awards were handed out and a new documentary was screened at the annual luncheon of the Baptist Center for Ethics last Thursday in Tampa, Fla. BCE is the parent organization of EthicsDaily.com. Babs Baugh, president of the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation, was...
by Daniel Burke | Jun 24, 2011 | News
(RNS) A United Methodist minister was suspended for 20 days by a church court in Wisconsin on Thursday (June 23) for performing a same-sex union in 2009, a breach of denominational rules. A 13-member jury of local United Methodist clergy voted 9-4 to suspend the Rev....
