by Omar Sacirbey | May 11, 2011 | News
(RNS) As president of the Phoenix-based American Islamic Forum for Democracy, an eight-year-old group that twins conservative and Islamic values, Zuhdi Jasser is no fan of the more visible Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR and too many other U.S. Muslim...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 11, 2011 | News
Billed as a major policy speech on immigration, President Barack Obama told an audience in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday that his administration had beefed up border security and gone beyond what Republicans said they wanted in order to support comprehensive reform....
by Michele Chabin | May 10, 2011 | News
(RNS) An ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspaper in Brooklyn deleted Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton from aWhite House photograph of top officials monitoring the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The Yiddish-language Der Zeitung removed Clinton and Audrey Tomason, a...
by Nancy Haught | May 10, 2011 | News
(RNS) A Jesuit will be sworn in as the 60th chaplain of the House of Representatives on May 25, when he will become the first member of his order and second consecutive Catholic priest to serve the House. As chaplain, the Rev. Patrick Conroy will be in charge of...
by Matt Vande Bunte | May 10, 2011 | News
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (RNS) It has been more than two decades since Deng Alier fled war in his homeland. Now, armed with a master’s degree in educational ministry, the former “Lost Boy” is ready to find his way back to Sudan. Alier, Deborah Makuei and Rebecca Deng were...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | May 10, 2011 | News
What’s to blame for the federal budget deficit? A new Gallup Poll found that most Americans blame federal spending on wasteful or unnecessary programs. “The large majority of Americans say spending too much money on unneeded or wasteful federal programs is...
