by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 7, 2011 | News
The Arizona Senate’s rejection of five anti-immigration bills hasn’t slowed the pace of anti-immigration bills surging through statehouses in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee. In mid-March, the Arizona Senate voted...
by Cathleen Falsani | Apr 6, 2011 | News
(RNS) The website of the Dove World Outreach Center describes the tiny church in Gainesville, Fla., as “a New Testament church based on the Bible, the Word of God.” Someone might want to tell them that they missed that whole “Blessed are the peacemakers” part. While...
by Trevor Grundy | Apr 6, 2011 | News
CANTERBURY, England (RNS/ENInews) A self-effacing multimillionaire has become a local hero after buying a series of 17th-century religious paintings and then donating them back to the Church of England in a bid to help boost art tourism. Jonathan Ruffer, 59, paid 15...
by Al Webb | Apr 6, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) One of the prominent figures in the revived ancient priesthood of Druidism in Britain has been charged with defrauding the government of 40,000 pounds (about $25,000) in welfare payments over the past eight years. Druid Terry Dobney, the self-styled...
by Peggy Fletcher Stack | Apr 5, 2011 | News
(RNS) Single Mormon men who are postponing marriage should get to it right away, church President Thomas S. Monson said Saturday (April 2) at an all-male priesthood session of the church’s 181st Annual General Conference. Monson acknowledged there may be financial or...
by Amy Ellis Nutt and Barry Carter | Apr 5, 2011 | News
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) For 46 years, the chief assassin of slain civil rights icon Malcolm X has been hiding in plain sight in Newark, according to a major new biography of the African-American leader released Monday (April 4). Al-Mustafa Shabazz is a 72-year-old Muslim...
