by Al Webb | Nov 3, 2010 | News
LONDON (RNS) Only weeks after being censured for using ad featuring a pregnant nun, a British ice cream maker has been forced to yank a second racy ad that featured two male priests on the verge of a kiss. The powerful Advertising Standards Authority banned the...
by Whitney Jones | Nov 3, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A recent survey on the religious climate of the U.S. Air Force Academy showed that 41 percent of non-Christian cadets face unwanted proselytizing at least once during a year-long period. The Cadet and Permanent Party Climate Assessment Survey, which...
by BWA and EthicsDaily.com Staff | Nov 3, 2010 | News
Baptists and other Christians in Baghdad say they are living in fear following an attack on a Roman Catholic Church in the Iraqi capital that left more than 50 Christians dead. The massacre occurred Oct. 31 when al-Qaida-aligned gunmen attacked worshipers from Our...
by Susan Todd and The Star-Ledger | Nov 2, 2010 | News
(RNS) Veronika and Oleg Bilerman exchanged wedding vows a quarter of a century ago in an unremarkable civil ceremony in the former Soviet Union. Their Jewish faith was never acknowledged. It wasn’t until Sunday (Oct. 31) that the couple, who now live in Fair Lawn,...
by Francis X. Rocca | Nov 2, 2010 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican’s top spokesman appealed to victims of pedophile priests who demonstrated near the Vatican on Sunday (Oct. 31) to regard the Catholic Church as an “ally” in the struggle against the sexual abuse of children. Following a private meeting...
by Kristen Moulton and The Salt Lake Tribune | Nov 2, 2010 | News
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) For a man who evangelized foreign leaders and taught Sunday school while U.S. president, Jimmy Carter has some strong words for what he sees as an “excessive melding of religion and politics.” And it began, he said, with the denomination he called...
