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United Press International – March 5, 2008 WASHINGTON, Mar 5, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) — Investigators infiltrated a technologically advanced child pornography ring that resulted in the arrest of 14 U.S. citizens, justice officials said. Officials with the FBI and Justice Department described the ring as a “vast child-exploitation enterprise” that distributed lewd images of…

Associated Press Kansas City, Mo. – A Kansas grand jury that investigated a Planned Parenthood clinic has refused to issue an indictment on allegations that it violated restrictions on the procedure. The Johnson County, Kan., grand jury’s decision was announced Monday evening, Planned Parenthood officials said. Abortion opponents, through a petition, had forced the court…

Associated Press Roswell, N.M. – Karina Acosta’s senior year at Roswell High came to an abrupt end after she was ticketed for blocking a fire lane outside a school and driving without a license. The officer who stopped her – a Roswell policeman assigned to the school – asked her for proof of legal U.S.…

Associated Press Washington – With only 10 months left in his term and Israeli-Palestinian talks collapsed over renewed violence, President Bush said Tuesday there is “plenty of time” to get a Mideast peace deal before he leaves. “This is a process that always has two steps forward and one step back,” Bush said after meeting…

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News – March 2, 2008 Mar. 2–Encyclopedia of Love. The title alone sounds like an author’s hot ticket to Oprah or The View. But the new, illustrated reference book, edited by Rollins College professor Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, is more ecumenical than racy. The complete title, The Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions,…

United Press International – February 29, 2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 29, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) — A research team in Sweden said Charles Darwin was wrong about the genetic basis for the yellow skin of some chickens. Greger Larson, a research fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden and at Durham University in Britain, said yellow-skinned…

Associated Press – March 3, 2008 SEDONA, Ariz. – Endorsed by an influential Texas televangelist, Republican John McCain endeared himself to one group of voters but risked alienating another with the pastor’s anti-Catholic views. The controversy has been mild so far, but still, every vote counts in a presidential election that is expected to be…

Associated Press – February 29, 2008 BAGHDAD – Gunmen kidnapped a Chaldean Catholic archbishop Friday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police and the church said, in another attack targeting Iraq’s small Christian community. The gunmen killed three people who were with Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho after he ended a Mass at…

By Achal Narayanan Religion News Service CHENNAI, India (RNS) An influential group of Muslim theologians at a prominent Islamic seminary in northern India have denounced terrorism, saying it is goes against the teachings of Islam. The denouncement came during the All India Anti-Terrorism Conference in the state of Uttar Pradesh, home to the 150-year-old Darul…

By Brittani Hamm Religion News Service WASHINGTON — The United Methodist Church’s social policy office is circulating a petition that tells President Bush, a fellow church member, that torture is immoral and ineffective. The petition cites the Methodists’ Book of Discipline, which says, “The mistreatment or torture of persons by governments for any purpose violates…
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