by Anto Akkara | Aug 10, 2010 | News
(RNS/ENInews) The International Assistance Mission has rejected Taliban claims that 10 staffers from the Christian aid agency who were killed in Afghanistan had been trying to convert Muslims. Our faith motivates and inspires us, but we do not proselytize. We abide by...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) has decided to permit women to serve on local church councils but has maintained its rule that they cannot be ordained as bishops. By a narrow vote during its recent General Assembly, the denomination changed its policy on...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 9, 2010 | News
(RNS) When U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down California’s Proposition 8 on Wednesday (Aug. 4), he said voters’ motivation for outlawing gay marriage was clear. The evidence shows conclusively that moral and religious views form the only basis...
by Trevor Grundy | Aug 9, 2010 | News
CANTERBURY, England (ENI) The British border protection agency says it is helping clerics spot sham marriages after a priest was convicted of presiding at weddings that enabled illegal immigrants to remain in Britain. The U.K. Border Agency encourages individual...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 9, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Episcopal bishop of Philadelphia was reinstated after a church court dismissed charges that he had failed to act on allegations that his brother, a fellow priest, was engaged in sexual abuse of a minor in the 1970s. The Episcopal Church’s Court of...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 6, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Twenty religious organizations are calling for Congress and President Obama to ensure a fair and thorough investigation into allegations of forced human experimentation by the CIA on detainees after 9/11. In June, the group Physicians for Human Rights...
