by Adelle Banks | Jun 10, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Significant majorities of Americans say it is possible to disagree with their religion’s teachings on abortion and homosexuality and still remain in good standing with their faith. The findings, released Thursday (June 9) in a detailed survey by...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jun 10, 2011 | News
Alabama Republican Gov. Robert Bentley signed on June 9 the nation’s harshest anti-immigration law, surpassing Arizona, while the state’s Christian denominations sat on the sidelines. “We have a real problem with illegal immigration in this...
by Ken Leiser | Jun 9, 2011 | News
ST. LOUIS (RNS) Taxi driver Nabeel Langrial was chatting with another cabbie last summer when an enforcement agent for the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission stopped to tell him his hat did not conform to the driver dress code. Langrial, a 23-year-old Muslim, told the...
by Steve Mayes | Jun 9, 2011 | News
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) After just an hour of deliberation, jurors on Tuesday (June 7) unanimously found two members of a faith-healing church guilty of felony criminal mistreatment for not seeking medical care for their daughter. Timothy and Rebecca Wyland face up to...
by Jeffrey MacDonald | Jun 9, 2011 | News
(RNS) For the second time this year, a federal regulator has rejected the First Amendment arguments of a Catholic college and cleared the way for the school’s adjunct faculty to unionize. In a May 26 decision, the Chicago office of the National Labor Relations Board...
by Baptist Times Staff | Jun 9, 2011 | News
The world’s environmental challenges will need to be met by a “different quality of spiritual leadership,” according to veteran green campaigner Jonathon Porritt. Speaking at a Christian Ecology Link meeting in England, Porritt praised the...
