by Daniel Burke | Sep 13, 2010 | News
(RNS) The imam behind the proposed Islamic community center near Ground Zero said Friday (Sept. 10) that he has no plans to meet with a pastor who has incited international outrage by plotting to burn Qurans outside his Florida church. “We have no such meeting planned...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 13, 2010 | News
On Sept. 12, 1960, then-Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy stood before a gathering of Baptists and other pastors in hopes of convincing Protestant Christians that the nation was ready for a Catholic president. Fifty years later, many Baptists and...
by G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Sep 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) In what’s being described as a “counter action” to “an act of hatred against Muslims,” the Massachusetts Bible Society said it would give away two Qurans for every one burned at a church in Florida. But late Thursday (Sept. 9), the Rev. Terry Jones, pastor of...
by Daniel Burke | Sep 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) President Obama has added his voice to a chorus of critics condemning a Florida pastor’s plans—now in doubt—to burn Qurans on Saturday (Sept. 11), the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Obama on Thursday (Sept. 9) called the Quran burning a “recruitment...
by LaNia Coleman and The Bay City Times | Sep 10, 2010 | News
BAY CITY, Mich. (RNS) A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Midland man and three Michigan ministers challenged the constitutionality of a federal hate-crimes law enacted last October. The suit against U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was filed in...
by Brian Kaylor | Sep 10, 2010 | News
As political and religious leaders debate whether a proposed Islamic center should be allowed to be built blocks from Ground Zero, a Southern Baptist leader tries to defend his opposition to the center. Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s...
