Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News – May 23, 2008 May 23–For three years and three months, Ali Hussain has waited to become a U.S. citizen. On Thursday, his wait was over — but not before he sued the federal government. In February, Hussain and 24 other Muslims joined a statewide lawsuit against Citizenship and Immigration Services…

By Benedicta Cipolla c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW YORK — After the memorial Mass on Oct. 26, 2001, for her son Christian, a probationary firefighter who died in the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Sally Regenhard didn’t proceed to a cemetery. There was no cemetery because there was no body. Christian’s…

By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service Five years ago, New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson made headlines by becoming the first openly gay bishop elected in the Episcopal Church or in the wider Anglican Communion. Robinson is making headlines again — this time for his upcoming civil union ceremony with his partner of 20 years,…

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) London (dpa) – British police are looking for suspected souvenir-hunters who used a hammer and a screwdriver to vandalize the world-famous stone circle of Stonehenge, south-west Britain. The incident, which occurred in the late evening of May 15, was the first atc of vandalism at the site, near Salisbury, in decades, police…

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