by Omar Sacirbey | Sep 20, 2010 | News
(RNS) At the end of a summer characterized by unprecedented levels of Islamophobia, Muslim Americans and their allies have found an expected reason to smile: Jake Isom, a skateboarder with a rat-tail from Amarillo, Texas. Last Saturday (Sept. 18), Isom, 23, snatched a...
by Jonathan Luxmoore | Sep 20, 2010 | News
WARSAW (RNS/ENInews) A Catholic bishop in Romania has deplored the mass expulsion of Roma from France, and he urged European governments to do more to integrate the continent’s Gypsy minorities. “There are substantial Roma communities in all European countries, not...
by Bob Considine | Sep 17, 2010 | News
UNION CITY, N.J. (RNS) A judge denied a city request for custodial receivership of two apartment buildings owned by the imam who wants to build a controversial mosque near Ground Zero, but demanded that he prove that safety and health code violations are being...
by Whitney Jones | Sep 17, 2010 | News
(RNS) The definition of who makes a family is shifting in the minds of Americans to include more same-sex couples, new research shows. Brian Powell, a sociologist at Indiana University, surveyed more than 1,500 people on the definition of family in 2003 and 2006 for...
by Whitney Jones | Sep 17, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) The number of people in poverty in America increased to its highest recorded point last year, and the poverty rate rose to its highest level since 1994, new statistics show. The Census Bureau released data Thursday (Sept. 16) that showed a significant...
by Ben Horowitz and The Star-Ledger | Sep 16, 2010 | News
CHATHAM, N.J. (RNS) A grand jury on Tuesday (Sept. 14) issued a revised indictment against a former church custodian who stands accused of murdering a Catholic priest. The new seven-count indictment is substantially the same as the original six-count document but...
