by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 21, 2011 | News
A Georgia state representative and a Baptist pastor say Christians are sitting ducks at church and need to be able to carry guns for protection. Rep. Bobby Franklin (R-Marietta) has introduced a bill (H.B. 54) that would allow church members to carry guns in church....
by Alice Fordham | Feb 18, 2011 | News
CAIRO (RNS) In Magdi Shnouda’s cafe in Cairo, pictures of Jesus and the saints hang on the shabby walls, and the men playing backgammon and dominoes are a mixture of Christians and Muslims. Sucking down glasses of sweet tea and strong coffee, they drape arms around...
by Richard Yeakley | Feb 18, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King is facing grassroots pressure to cancel his planned hearings on the “radicalization” of U.S. Muslims. “He is doing precisely what President George Washington promised would not happen: he is...
by Ron Csillag | Feb 18, 2011 | News
TORONTO (RNS) The mayor of a Quebec town says he will appeal a decision by a human rights tribunal that bans prayer at city council and ordered him to remove a crucifix from the council’s chambers. Saguenay Mayor Jean Tremblay said he will refuse to heed the judgment...
by Vishal Arora | Feb 17, 2011 | News
NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha’s bones to Sri Lanka for the 2600th anniversary of Buddha’s Enlightenment in May, and some see it as part of India’s strategy to gain a regional edge over neighboring China. Indranil Banerjie, head of...
by Jeanette DeForge | Feb 17, 2011 | News
CHICOPEE, Mass. (RNS) In what one expert is calling a landmark decision, three closed Catholic churches in the Diocese of Springfield, Mass., have been given at least a partial reprieve. St. Patrick’s and St. George churches in Chicopee and St. Stanislaus Kostka...
