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By Andrea Useem 2008 Religion News Service (UNDATED) In a study that highlights the fluidity of religious affiliation in America today, Hindus stand out as the group with the most stable religious identity, while Buddhists struggle hardest to pass the faith from one generation to the next. Ninety percent of Hindus marry within their own…

Associated Press – February 25, 2008 HACIENDA HEIGHTS, California – The only familiar signs at the McDonald’s in this large Asian community are the golden arches, the drive-through and the menu. Gone are the plastic furniture, Ronald McDonald and the red and yellow palette that has defined the world’s largest hamburger chain. Leather seats, earth…

By Bruce Nolan c. 2008 Religion News Service NEW ORLEANS — These old walls have never heard music like this. On Sundays, when morning light fills the vaulted space of the former First United Methodist Church on Canal Street, drummer Vel McCall sometimes lays down an uptempo, hip-swaying gospel beat for what used to be…

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News – February 21, 2008 Calling climate change “the civil rights movement of the 21st century,” evangelical Christian leaders gathered at a daylong environmental conference in Longwood, Fla., Thursday. Global warming is “an offense against God,” added the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president of the 30-million member National Association of Evangelicals, at…

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) For the second time in two months, Pope Benedict XVI urged leaders of the Catholic Church’s largest religious order to affirm their commitment to orthodoxy in several controversial areas, including religious pluralism and human sexuality. Benedict made his remarks on Thursday (February 21) at a…

By Paul Walsh Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News After churches in Minnesota and elsewhere in the nation were warned by the NFL about showing the Super Bowl telecast to gatherings, the league has relented and will allow religious organizations to display the telecast under certain circumstances, a U.S. senator said. The league’s reversal comes after it…

Associated Press New York – The Anti-Defamation League was “deeply troubled” by the prayer. Conservative Jewish rabbis said they were “dismayed and deeply disturbed” by its language. But some veteran interfaith leaders – Jewish and Roman Catholic – say there’s no evidence that a revised Good Friday liturgy approved this month by Pope Benedict XVI…

Associated Press Washington – A senior Chinese official is trying to calm U.S. misgivings ahead of Beijing’s coming Olympic Games about what the Bush administration sees as religious intolerance in China. The director of China’s religious affairs bureau met in Washington with U.S. officials and spoke at a Roman Catholic institution, Georgetown University. Ye Xiaowen…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) The high court of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has issued a landmark decision that unequivocally bars noncelibate gay and lesbian clergy and halts recent attempts to compromise on ordination standards. Ministerial candidates in the PCUSA are required to be in faithful heterosexual marriages or remain celibate, though a…

Associated Press – February 19, 2008 VATICAN CITY – The Vatican’s No. 2 official, on the eve of a trip to Cuba, held out the possibility of a future visit there by Pope Benedict XVI, according to an interview published Tuesday. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of state, departs for Havana on Wednesday for…
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