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Associated Press Washington – President Bush’s special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, has resigned, U.S. officials said Friday. Natsios oversaw a push to end the violence that the United States calls genocide in Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region and worked to maintain a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war between north and…

Associated Press Vatican City – Pope Benedict XVI said Friday the Vatican is willing to have “serene and constructive” talks with Chinese authorities to solve the problems of the Catholic community in the country. Benedict recalled a letter he sent to all Catholics in China in June, in which he praised the underground faithful but…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service Though college students’ attendance at worship services declines, their interest in spiritual matters grows during their time on campus, a new UCLA study shows. UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute compared the views of students who were freshmen in the fall of 2004 with the same students’ thoughts in…

San Diego – The head of the largest branch of American Judaism is urging members of the movement to do more to observe Shabbat. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, said in a speech to the group’s biennial convention that stressed families need a day when they can “stop running around…
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