by Michele Chabin | Nov 5, 2010 | News
JERUSALEM (RNS) For the first time in its 62-year history, Israel will soon allow a limited number of couples to marry in civil ceremonies. The Civil Union Law, which received final parliamentary approval this week, applies only to couples who have no legal...
by Jená Lowe | Nov 5, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A national network of faith-based organizations, homeowners and community organizers met with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Wednesday (Nov. 3), urging him to tackle problems with fraudulent foreclosures. Organizers from the group People...
by Adelle M. Banks | Nov 4, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Is a state law that allows tax credits for donations to scholarship programs unconstitutional if most of the recipients attend religious schools? That’s the question the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled with Wednesday (Nov. 3), centered around an Arizona...
by Al Webb | Nov 4, 2010 | News
LONDON (RNS) A leading bishop in the Church of England has triggered fury in British religious circles by likening the debate over allowing female bishops to the “serious threat” of warfare posed by the Nazis on the eve of World War II. Bishop of Lewes Wallace Benn...
by Whitney Jones | Nov 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) Most Americans have a desire for more forgiveness in their lives, but they are more critical when choosing who to forgive, according to a new survey. Sixty-two percent of American adults said they need more forgiveness in their personal lives, and 94 percent...
by Jack Flynn and The Republican | Nov 3, 2010 | News
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) The first of three men charged with torching a black church hours after President Obama’s 2008 election was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday (Nov. 1) for what the judge called a “particularly vicious act of stupidity.” Benjamin J....
