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By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. State Department, in its annual report on international religious freedom issued Friday (Sept. 19), admonished several Asian nations, including China, for severely repressing religion. Listing “countries of particular concern” that engage in or tolerate “particularly severe violations of religious freedom,” the report highlights everything from…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Responding to a call from their Third World counterparts, U.S. evangelical leaders are urging church members to pay greater attention to global poverty, saying increased advocacy is necessary in light of the current U.S. financial crisis. Last month, 21 leaders of churches in Africa, Asia and South…

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services — Unrestricted – September 22, 2008 Sep. 20–RICHARDSON — In a banquet room above the student union’s bopping pingpong balls and blaring arcade games, the groan of empty stomachs met the hum of Arabic prayer. Tables of 20-somethings at the University of Texas at Dallas drooled over plates of hummus as their…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Four in 10 Americans believe that religious leaders should be permitted to endorse political candidates from the pulpit without risking their organization’s tax-exempt status, a new survey by the First Amendment Center shows. Twenty-two percent of respondents “strongly” agreed and 18 percent “mildly” agreed that religious leaders…
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