by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 30, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Southern Poverty Law Center is adding the Family Research Council and four other conservative religious organizations to its list of hate groups because of “falsehoods” in their anti-gay statements. Mark Potok, director of the center’s...
by Ron Csillag | Nov 30, 2010 | News
TORONTO (RNS) A Canadian Orthodox archbishop has been charged with sexual assault on two 10-year-old boys about 25 years ago. Kenneth William Storheim, known as Archbishop Seraphim, flew from his home in Edmonton, Alberta and surrendered to police in Winnipeg,...
by Daniel Burke | Nov 30, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the Pentagon readies a long-awaited survey of military personnel on lifting the Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell policy, a new poll suggests broad support across religious groups for allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. The Pentagon report, expected to...
by Baptist Times Staff | Nov 30, 2010 | News
A Baptist church in Burma has been closed after its pastor refused to wear an election campaign T-shirt supporting the ruling party. Pastor Mang Tling was ordered by local police to stop holding worship services at Dawdin Baptist Church and to discontinue its nursery...
by Cathleen Falsani | Nov 29, 2010 | News
(RNS) Calling it a “beloved American tradition” in his official proclamation this week, President Obama reminded us that Thanksgiving is an opportunity “to focus our thoughts on the grace that has been extended to our people and our country.” Thank you, Mr. President....
by Kevin Eckstrom | Nov 29, 2010 | News
(RNS) The calendar may have said 2010, but for Pope Benedict XVI and much of his global flock, it looked and felt a lot like 2002. For the second time in a decade, damning charges of child molestation at the hands of Catholic priests dominated headlines, this time...
