by Adelle M. Banks | Jan 5, 2011 | News
(RNS) Janine Winkler loves reading books to her 2-year-old grandson Judah, but instead of sitting on her lap at her home in Michigan, he’s usually half a world away in Nigeria, where his father works for Wycliffe Bible Translators. What connects them is Skype, the...
by Bruce Nolan and The Times-Picayune | Jan 5, 2011 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The last time Matt Sloan saw Sylvia Blanchard’s house after he and Episcopal volunteer crews reclaimed it from Hurricane Katrina, the Blanchards were back in and it was neat, clean and smelling new. But it was raw, too, in the way of new...
by Daniel Burke | Jan 5, 2011 | News
(RNS) Seven in 10 Americans say religion’s influence on the country is waning, and 61 percent say they belong to a church or synagogue, equaling the lowest number since Gallup began asking the question in the 1930s. Opinions about religion’s influence have fluctuated...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 5, 2011 | News
Muslim and Christian leaders began the new year with a flurry of statements and comments condemning Islamic attacks on Christians in Egypt and Nigeria. Victory Baptist Church in Maiduguri, Nigeria, was burned and its pastor killed by Islamic extremists on Christmas...
by Michael O'Malley | Jan 4, 2011 | News
(RNS) The recent appointment of an American archbishop to the Vatican office overseeing a wide-ranging investigation of U.S. nuns has the sisters and their supporters breathing a little easier. Archbishop Joseph Tobin has already acknowledged the “anger and hurt”...
by Tim Townsend and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Jan 4, 2011 | News
ST. LOUIS (RNS) Soon after his installation as the new president of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Rev. Matthew Harrison was studying the responsibilities of his office in the denomination’s constitution and bylaws. One paragraph jumped out at him. Under...
