by Al Webb | Mar 2, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) Two senior judges have banned a Christian couple from any further foster care because they oppose homosexuality, a stance that the judges said has no place in the laws of a “largely secular” Britain. Owen and Eunice Johns, of Derby, England, have already...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 2, 2011 | News
Anti-Islam bills have now been introduced in a dozen state legislatures from Alaska to South Carolina. Some bills refer specifically to Sharia or Islamic law. Others refer only to “foreign laws,” a thinly veiled reference to Islamic law. Bill sponsors...
by Richard Yeakley | Mar 1, 2011 | News
(RNS) Southern Baptist bookstores have quietly suspended a four-year-old program that warned customers to read with “discernment” books by several up-and-coming authors whose books “could be considered inconsistent with historical evangelical theology.” Chris Rodgers,...
by Piet Levy | Mar 1, 2011 | News
(RNS) The fierce budget battle in Wisconsin that’s pitting unions against Republican Gov. Scott Walker has also pitted the state’s top Roman Catholic bishops against each other in a series of public exchanges over the church’s historic support for unions. The war of...
by Adelle Banks | Mar 1, 2011 | News
(RNS) An Orthodox Jew has won a new trial after Maryland’s highest court ruled that a lower court erred when it denied his requests to suspend a trial so he could observe a religious holiday. Alexander Neustadter had argued he could not be in court during two days of...
by Baptist Times Staff | Mar 1, 2011 | News
A respected Baptist pastor in Cuba has published an open letter highlighting the government persecution that has forced him to retire. Pastor Homero Carbonell, long-time leader of La Trinidad First Baptist Church in Santa Clara, and general secretary of the Baptist...
