by Omar Sacirbey | Dec 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) Backers of a referendum that would bar Oklahoma courts from considering Islamic law admit they suffered a setback when a federal judge issued a temporary injunction against the measure last month. But they are pinning their hopes on Attorney General-elect Scott...
by Kimberly Melton and The Oregonian | Dec 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) Oregon state officials released a policy on Wednesday (Dec. 8)intended to give school districts guidance in applying Oregon’s new law on religious clothing. A statewide ban on teacher religious dress was originally enacted in 1923 to keep Catholic nuns from...
by Adelle M. Banks | Dec 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) Close friendships among congregants, rather than theology seem to be the key to happiness among religious people, according to a new study. One-third of Americans who attend religious services weekly and have three to five close friends in the congregation said...
by Nicole Neroulias | Dec 9, 2010 | News
(RNS) Nearly two years after negotiations abruptly ended over where a Greek Orthodox church destroyed on 9/11 may rebuild, legal action has begun against several agencies and officials involved in the Ground Zero land dispute. Until talks broke off in early 2008,...
by Matt Friedman and Ginger Gibson and The Star-Ledger | Dec 9, 2010 | News
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) New Jersey lawmakers on Thursday (Dec. 9) will consider a bill that would eliminate any statute of limitations on when sex abuse victims can sue—and allow them to take action against clergy, educators and others who knew about abuse and did nothing...
by Adelle M. Banks | Dec 9, 2010 | News
(RNS) Marriage among Americans who have graduated high school but not college is on the decline, and their religious attendance has dropped at the same time, a new report shows. “Middle Americans” ages 25 to 60 who were in their first marriages dropped from 73 percent...
