by Anto Akkara | Oct 19, 2010 | News
NAGPUR, India (RNS/ENInews) Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams deplored attempts by European governments to prohibit Muslim women from wearing body-covering burqas in public. “Governments should have better things to do than ban the burqa,” Williams, the leader...
by Francis X. Rocca | Oct 19, 2010 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Monday (Oct. 18) praised Catholic lay movements as a source of vocations to the priesthood, but cautioned against their potential to breed divisions among future clergy, who he said “often live on very different spiritual...
by Baptist Times Staff | Oct 19, 2010 | News
Why are young people leaving the church when they reach their young-adult years? The Baptist Union of Great Britain’s Younger Leaders’ Forum relayed some of their key findings at a recent gathering. They include: · A diet of “Bible stories and...
by Omar Sacirbey | Oct 18, 2010 | News
(RNS) Fox News watchers are more likely than other Americans to believe dubious claims about the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero, according to a new study. “The results are very clear: the more people use Fox News, the more rumors they have heard...
by Daniel Burke | Oct 18, 2010 | News
(RNS) Chile’s top Anglican bishop has become collateral damage in the border wars between the Episcopal Church and conservatives overseas. Bishop Tito Zavala of Chile has been removed from an international commission that considers questions of faith and governance in...
by Adelle M. Banks | Oct 18, 2010 | News
(RNS) Adding faith to the exercise regimen of African-American women may prompt them to be more fit, a UCLA study shows. Researchers studying black women from three Los Angeles churches who participated in faith-based physical activity found the women increased their...
