by Baptist Times Staff | Jan 13, 2011 | News
Christians in the United Kingdom are not being persecuted as much as they think. Nevertheless, they do need to stand up in certain situations to safeguard their rights. That’s the opinion of Mark Greene, executive director of the London Institute for...
by Steve Strunsky and The Star-Ledger | Jan 12, 2011 | News
PATERSON, N.J. (RNS) In the wake of Saturday’s (Jan. 8) shooting that left six people dead and an Arizona congresswoman critically injured, a New Jersey congressman is calling upon clergy to help people put aside their ideological differences during a “week of...
by Adelle M. Banks | Jan 12, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Civility Project, a two-year bipartisan attempt to get politicians and others to respect one another, is closing down after just three members of Congress agreed to the project’s pledge. “You three were alone in pledging to be civil,” Christian...
by Francis X. Rocca | Jan 12, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The government of Egypt recalled its ambassador to the Vatican on Tuesday (Jan. 11) to protest a demand by Pope Benedict XVI that it better protect the country’s embattled Christian minority. The Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement that...
by Francis X. Rocca | Jan 11, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Monday (Jan. 10) decried violence against Christians in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, as well as more subtle “threats to the full exercise of religious freedom” in the secular West. The pope made his remarks in his annual...
by Lauren Markoe | Jan 11, 2011 | News
(RNS) Debbie Friedman, a composer and singer whose modern melodies updated the music in synagogue services worldwide, died of pneumonia Sunday (Jan. 9). She was 59. With her guitar, Friedman became famous for a folksy style that blended Hebrew and English, and...
