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WASHINGTON (RNS) Christian and Muslim leaders from the U.S., the Vatican and the Middle East have issued a “plan of action” to address religious freedom and peace-building after a three-day summit at Washington National Cathedral. The group’s two-page statement committed to working with government and community officials to address the global economic downturn, natural disasters…

(RNS) The sign on the campus of the University of Tex-San Antonio was bound to get attention: “Trade in holy text 4 porn.” The annual event sponsored by the Atheist Agenda student group, “Smut for Smut,” sparked enough protest and controversy that police were called in to monitor the scene on Monday (March 1). “Smut…

WASHINGTON (RNS) One day after the District of Columbia legalized gay marriage, the city’s Episcopal bishop said priests may preside over and bless same-sex civil marriages, but cannot use the denomination’s marriage rites. “We are of equal value in the eyes of God,” Bishop John Chane said Thursday (March 4), “and any one of use…

London (dpa) – An influential Muslim scholar with a large following in Britain Tuesday issued a fatwa – or Islamic religious ruling – which condemned global terrorism and branded suicide bombers as the “heroes of hellfire.” The proclamation by Pakistan-born Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, the founder of the global Minhaj-ul-Quran movement, was immediately welcomed by government leaders…

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an allegation of dishonest testimony about medical records of the state’s key witness during the 2007 criminal trial of FLDS polygamous sect prophet Warren S. Jeffs. According to a sheriff’s report, the investigation began in January after Washington County Attorney Brock Belnap was informed that a witness “had…

By OMAR SACIRBEY (RNS) Canadian lawyer Kerry Gearin is planning to fly to Washington, D.C., this summer for a conference on Islamic family law, but the full-body scanners being deployed in some U.S. airports make her wonder if she’ll be forced to leave her modesty at home. “When I saw the pictures, I thought, it’s…

(RNS) Are people with high IQs more likely to be liberal, atheist and monogamous? They are, according to a recently published paper by Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In a controversial article in the March issue of the journal Social Psychology Quarterly, Kanazawa suggested that young…

(RNS) Noemi Rasgado and Antoinette Hamilton are in the same boat. Both are sick and both work. But neither makes enough to afford health insurance, forcing them to go without health care as the clock ticks down toward an emergency. But Rasgado, with her sinus infection, and Hamilton, with her chronic high blood pressure, found…

(RNS) Andre Ufferfilge figures he probably could have found a couch to crash on in Israel through friends of friends, but he instead found a home-cooked kosher meal and acceptance for his traditional Jewish lifestyle. Before he left his university campus in Dusseldorf, Germany, Ufferfilge hopped online and registered with Jewgether, a social networking site…

WASHINGTON (RNS) The Archdiocese of Washington’s social service branch will stop offering benefits to spouses of new employees in a bid to balance the District of Columbia’s new same-sex marriage law with Catholic opposition to homosexuality. Edward Orzechowski, president and CEO of Catholic Charities of Washington, informed the group’s 850 employees of the change in…
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