by David Giambusso | May 16, 2011 | News
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Dalai Lama has a message for Newark: Peace does not come easily, but the strategy for attaining it is simple. Flanked by blue orchids, Buddhist monks and a security detail from the U.S. State Department, the Tibetan spiritual leader made his...
by John Caniglia | May 16, 2011 | News
CLEVELAND (RNS) The case that led to John Demjanjuk’s conviction in Germany on Thursday (May 12) was laid out 10 years ago in a Cleveland courtroom, where lawyers sparred over his wartime past. At the time, prosecutors said he was a Nazi guard at an extermination...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 16, 2011 | News
Georgia Republican Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law a bill modeled after Arizona’s controversial 2010 anti-immigration measure, despite significant opposition from business leaders and some religious leaders. Calling his action “a rather historic...
by Sophia Kishkovsky | May 13, 2011 | News
MOSCOW (RNS/ENInews) Russian and Greek Orthodox leaders are objecting to plans in both countries to introduce electronic identity cards intended to streamline bureaucracy. Church officials are demanding close study of the cards, and asking that authorities make them...
by Daniel Burke | May 13, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) New legislation proposed by a leading congressional watchdog would push the State Department to make international religious freedom a greater priority. Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., introduced a bill on Wednesday (May 11) that would boost the profile of...
by Adelle Banks | May 13, 2011 | News
(RNS) Billy Graham’s doctor confirmed Thursday (May 12) that the 92-year-old evangelist has pneumonia, but said he is doing well. Graham was taken Wednesday to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., where he was started on antibiotics. Dr. Shaw C. Henderson, a...
