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By Menachem Wecker c. 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) Like many religious institutions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) has commissioned countless works of art to educate believers and non-believers about its history and doctrines. Now, like other churches, Mormons are engaged in a low-simmer dispute with artists over how the…

Associated Press – February 13, 2008 COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Leading Danish newspapers reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a gesture of solidarity Wednesday after police revealed a plot to kill the creator of the caricature that sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world. Danish Muslims said they would seek to avoid a repeat of…

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) – February 11, 2008 Paris (dpa) – More than 50,000 Catholic pilgrims took part in a Mass on Monday at the Catholic shrine in the southern French city of Lourdes to celebrated the 150th anniversary of the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a 14-year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous. The Mass…

Chicago Tribune – February 12, 2008 (MCT) WICHITA, Kan. – The latest skirmish in the abortion wars is being fought, not on the sidewalk outside a clinic, but in the ornate jury room of a 19th Century courthouse. Kansas is one of a handful of states that allow citizen-initiated grand juries to investigate possible crimes.…
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