by Vishal Arora | Aug 6, 2010 | News
NEW DELHI (RNS) Tensions between Christians and Muslims in India’s Kerala state have reached the boiling point over allegations of widespread coerced conversions to Islam. Kerala’s communist Chief Minister, V.S. Achuthanandan, accused an Islamist...
by Al Webb | Aug 6, 2010 | News
LONDON (RNS) A top priest at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, where Prince Charles and Princess Diana were married in 1981, says fancy, multi-million-dollar weddings are now posing a threat to marriage itself. The Rev. Giles Fraser told BBC Radio’s...
by Brian Kaylor | Aug 6, 2010 | News
On Aug. 7, 1980, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Bailey Smith, visited the White House to meet with President Jimmy Carter. During that meeting 30 years ago, Smith attacked Carter’s religious beliefs because of political...
by Bruce Nolan and David Hammer and The Times-Picayune | Aug 5, 2010 | News
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) The social service arm of the local Catholic Church said Tuesday (Aug. 3) it’s nearly out of relief money for people damaged by the BP oil spill because the oil company has not approved a replenishment the church requested in June. Jim Kelly,...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 5, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) A federal appeals court has sided with a prison system whose policy forbids Muslim women employees from wearing headscarves on the job. In a 2-1 decision issued Tuesday (Aug. 3), the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the dispute a close case...
by Daniel Burke | Aug 5, 2010 | News
(RNS) In a decision with enormous legal, political, and religious implications, a federal judge on Wednesday (Aug. 4) struck down California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s watershed decision marks the...
