by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) Focus on the Family has announced 110 job cuts in the latest round of layoffs that the Colorado ministry attributes to the departure of founder James Dobson and the reduced financial support from donors. This is not a happy time, obviously, having to say...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) Brigham Young University was named the nation’s most religious campus, and Sarah Lawrence College the least religious, in new rankings released Tuesday (Aug. 3). The Princeton Review released the 2011 edition of their yearly assessment of The Best 373...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) A conservative religious law firm plans to appeal a decision that grants a green light for the construction of an Islamic community center two blocks from Ground Zero. The Washington-based American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) opposes the construction of...
by Michele Chabin | Aug 3, 2010 | News
JERUSALEM (RNS) More than 100 modern-Orthodox rabbis, educators and mental-health professionals in Israel and the U.S. have signed a document that urges respect for homosexuals but stops short of condoning same-sex relationships. The Statement of Principles, released...
by Richard Allen | Aug 3, 2010 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A top Vatican official has criticized a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow the world’s first clinical trials using stem cells derived from human embryos. Despite the efforts that are made to deny it, science continues to...
by Adelle M. Banks | Aug 3, 2010 | News
(RNS) The National Association of Evangelicals has condemned plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The proposed burning of Qurans would be profoundly offensive to Muslims worldwide, just as Christians...
