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Associated Press Ramallah – West Bank – A new “morality police” has begun detaining Palestinians who eat or drink in public during the fasting month of Ramadan, a first in the West Bank where Muslim custom was always widely observed, but never before imposed. The 12-member squad with special red badges appears to be an…

By NICOLE WINFIELD ROME (AP) — A doctor alleged Wednesday that Pope John Paul II violated Catholic teaching against euthanasia by refusing medical care that would have kept him alive longer — a charge immediately dismissed by Vatican officials. In an article in the Italian journal Micromega, Dr. Lina Pavanelli, an anaesthesiologist, questioned why John…

By Lilly Fowler Religion News Service Jim Yelvington decided he would do something different with the launch of his new church in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. — cancel Sunday worship services. As part of a new “Faith in Action” program, Yelvington traded traditional Sabbath singing and praying for a Sunday dedicated to community service. His…

Associated Press – September 26, 2007 YANGON, Myanmar – Mounting pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks against Myanmar’s military government erupted into serious bloodshed for the first time Wednesday, as security forces shot dead at least one man and wounded more in chaotic confrontations in the country’s biggest city. The violence riveted world attention on…
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