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ST. LOUIS (RNS) Adil Imdad, 41, moved to the United States as a teenager from his native Pakistan in 1981. Five years later, he became an American citizen, and in 1995, he moved to this city to pursue a master’s degree in environmental engineering at Washington University. Imdad’s story embodies the reason the American Civil…

(RNS) As sex abuse scandals continue to roil the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI’s approval ratings have plummeted, according to a new study, with 44 percent of Americans saying he has done a “poor” job handling the issue. Just 12 percent of Americans say the pope has done an “excellent” (3 percent) or “fair”…

WASHINGTON – Less talk about “Islamic radicalism” and a lot more about doing business. In the year since President Barack Obama pledged a new beginning in the relationship with the Muslim world, the White House has begun to change the U.S. focus. Terrorism still dominates U.S. security concerns, but the White House believes it doesn’t…

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic “hate” campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage. Vatican Radio broadcast comments by two senior cardinals explaining “the motive for these…

(RNS) When President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meet in Prague on Thursday (April 8) to sign a new agreement on nuclear weapons, it will mark one more step in the religious community’s long campaign to reduce, if not end, the threat of nuclear war. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, aims to…

(RNS) President Obama bared his soul before a cross section of Christian leaders at a White House Easter breakfast on Tuesday (April 6), where he spoke publicly of his faith in redemption through Jesus in his most personal terms since becoming president. Addressing his “brothers and sisters in Christ” among the nearly 90 pastors, community…

(RNS) When 19 Muslim men crashed two planes into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, it was widely labeled “Islamic terrorism,” even as many Muslims cringed at the term. So when nine members of a Michigan-based Christian militia, fueled by visions of the apocalypse, laid plans to gun down police officers, is it…

(RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday (April 6) named Mexican-born Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio as the next archbishop of Los Angeles, placing him in charge of the nation’s largest diocese and in line to become the nation’s first Hispanic cardinal. Gomez, who has served in San Antonio since 2004, was named coadjutor…

LONDON (RNS) The leader of the global Anglican Communion has been forced to apologize for claiming the Catholic Church in Ireland had lost “all credibility” over the clerical child abuse scandal. The Easter weekend dust-up was triggered when Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams claimed on BBC radio that recent sexual abuse revelations had been a…

WASHINGTON (RNS) Muslim and Sikh groups praised the Transportation Security Administration for rolling back screening rules on passengers arriving from 14 primarily Islamic countries, even as some worry that profiling will continue. The new rules had been enacted after a Nigerian Muslim man tried and failed to explode a bomb onboard a Northwest Airlines jet…
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