by Al Webb | Mar 17, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) A Church of England vicar has been arrested in Britain’s second major police investigation in as many years into bogus marriages staged to help immigrants win residents’ visas. The church immediately suspended the Rev. Canon Patrick Magumba amid claims he...
by Richard Yeakley | Mar 17, 2011 | News
(RNS) The Justice Department has filed suit against California prison officials on behalf of a Sikh inmate who says his religious freedom was violated when officials punished him for not cutting his beard. Sukhjinder Basra, incarcerated at the California Men’s Colony...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 17, 2011 | News
Advocates and skeptics of nuclear energy weighed in about the future of nuclear power as Japan waged a deteriorating battle at its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. According to media reports on March 16, Japan announced plans to use a water cannon truck to cool the...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 16, 2011 | News
(RNS) A Smithsonian museum is restoring the “Jefferson Bible,” a unique volume the third president cut and pasted himself—omitting lots of theology—from portions of the New Testament. Thomas Jefferson assembled the book in 1820 when he retired after two terms as...
by Nicole Neroulias | Mar 16, 2011 | News
SEATTLE (RNS) Alaska Airlines has issued an apology for misinterpreting the devotional behavior of three Orthodox Jewish men on a flight from Mexico City to Los Angeles on Sunday (March 13). The men had strapped on tefillin—black leather bindings and boxes worn on...
by Trevor Grundy | Mar 16, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS/ENInews) More than 900 Anglicans formally expressed a desire to convert to Catholicism at special services held at Westminster Cathedral—including the first Anglicans to join a new branch of the Catholic Church. The annual ceremonies held last weekend...
