by Adelle Banks | Jun 8, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Four months after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a new Gallup survey says a majority of Egyptians want religious leaders to advise the nation’s officials but they do not want a theocracy. About seven in 10 Egyptians said clerics should...
by Steve Mayes | Jun 8, 2011 | News
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) Two parents accused of denying medical care to their infant daughter are the victims of religious persecution, inflexible bureaucrats and unreasonable expectations, a defense attorney said Monday (June 6) in closing arguments. The trial of...
by Harlan Kirgan | Jun 8, 2011 | News
MOSS POINT, Miss. (RNS) For the past 69 years, Ida Mae Cumbest has been the pianist and organist at Caswell Springs United Methodist Church—a tenure that qualifies her as the world’s longest-serving church organist. Cumbest has played at Caswell since 1942, which...
by Brian Kaylor | Jun 8, 2011 | News
Editor’s Note: Also read Brian Kaylor’s previous coverage of the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference: Religious Conservatives Cheer Trump at Conference and Huntsman Avoids “Faith” Questions at Evangelical Event. At a conservative Christian...
by Adelle Banks | Jun 7, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Roughly two out of three Americans say it makes no difference to them if a presidential candidate is Mormon, according to a new Pew Research Center poll, although evangelicals are more cautious. The poll found that 68 percent of respondents said a...
by Francis Rocca | Jun 7, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A Vatican investigation of clerical sex abuse in Ireland has finished its “first phase,” the Vatican announced on Monday (June 6), but a published report of its findings may not appear until next year. The announcement came four days after Dublin...
