by Adelle M. Banks | Jan 11, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Facing a backlash from conservative groups, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered changes to a proposal to remove the terms “mother” and “father” from records of overseas births. “With Secretary Clinton’s input, we will be revising the form...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 11, 2011 | News
Southern Sudan’s weeklong referendum of self-determination that began Jan. 9 finds long lines of voters in southern Sudan and no lines in the nation’s capital of Khartoum, reported Voice of America. The New York Times reported that “voters continued...
by Kim Lawton | Jan 10, 2011 | News
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (RNS) Driving through downtown Port-au-Prince, it can be difficult at first to see much change from a year ago, when a devastating 7.0 earthquake devastated this impoverished island nation. The presidential palace is still in ruins, with...
by Stephanie Barry and The Republican | Jan 10, 2011 | News
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) A federal judge ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield must bow to the altar of historic preservation in a dispute over who controls the fate of shuttered church buildings. The diocese sued the city in federal court after the...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Jan 10, 2011 | News
(RNS) American Jews scored the highest of any religious group on a “well-being” index even though more than half of Jews are nonreligious, according to a new Gallup survey. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index is based on a survey of more than 550,000 people who...
by Adelle M. Banks | Jan 7, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Army is facing questions over a “spiritual fitness” portion of a mandatory questionnaire, with some atheists calling it “invidious and not inclusive” of soldiers who are nonbelievers. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation learned in...
