BUCHAREST, Romania - Twenty church groups on Thursday urged a government committee not to allow an 11-year-old girl raped by her uncle to travel to Britain for an abortion. The pro-life Christian Orthodox groups also threatened to press charges if…
Some books are so powerful, so disturbing, I almost hesitates to recommend them or pass along a copy to a friend. Left to Tell, a spiritual autobiography written by a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, is one such book. A friend who read it at her church lent it to me, and the book spent [...]
More than 500 clergy could leave the Church of England in response to proposals to consecrate women bishops that will be debated at the General Synod next month. Bishops voted narrowly to approve the consecration of women, without enshrining the l…
The Lambeth Conference is held every 10 years by Anglicans worldwide to celebrate, pray and work out issues that are bound to arise in any large family. That is, until now. Held in Canterbury, the historic site that has always been the physical he…
The recent death from untreated diabetes of an 11-year-old Wisconsin girl has invigorated opposition to obscure laws in many states that let parents rely on prayer, rather than medicine, to heal sick children. Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston, W…
WICHITA, Kan. - Troy Newman appears to be just about the happiest person who ever set foot in an abortion clinic. “We’re winning,” Newman says excitedly. “We’re winning the youth. We’re winning the hearts and minds of the people.” Except for his p…
First it was Republicans, and now Democrats, scrambling in recent presidential elections to snuggle up closely to men of the cloth, seeking the endorsement of well-known clergymen and campaigning with preachers, all in an effort to demonstrate how…
A bomb exploded outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan’s capital on June 2nd, killing at least half-a-dozen people. The same day another bomb struck a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Just an ordinary start to an ordinary month in t…
The lights never went out, and the rumored orgy failed to materialize. Still, from the point of view Turkey’s Sunni Muslim authorities, a hundred other heresies were committed on a recent evening at the Alevi Muslim prayer service in Istanbul’s wo…
