by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 9, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Leaders of three Sikh organizations say they’ve been told by federal transportation officials that turbans will always be searched at U.S. airports, a move that Sikh officials called unnecessary and unfair. Representatives of the Sikh Coalition,...
by Bruce Nolan | Nov 9, 2010 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Leaders of the nation’s largest coalition of Christian churches will gather here this week (Nov. 9-11) to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ecumenical movement. Members of the National Council of Churches, representing 100,000 congregations...
by Chris Megerian and The Star-Ledger | Nov 8, 2010 | News
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) On the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Derek Fenton stole headlines by burning pages from the Quran in lower Manhattan to protest a planned Islamic community center there. Two days later, he lost his job at New Jersey Transit for...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 8, 2010 | News
(RNS) A Muslim advocacy group filed suit Thursday (Nov. 4) in Oklahoma, saying a just-passed amendment forbidding judicial use of Islamic law is unconstitutional. The suit, filed by the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, seeks a federal...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Nov 8, 2010 | News
(RNS) Openly gay Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election caused a major schism within the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion, announced on Saturday (Nov. 6) that he will retire in early 2013. Robinson, 63, asked delegates from the...
by Whitney Jones | Nov 5, 2010 | News
(RNS) Pope Benedict XVI won the No. 5 spot in a list of the world’s most powerful people, one of only two religious leaders in Forbes magazine’s list of 68 influential men and women. Benedict was sandwiched between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and German...
