WASHINGTON (ABP) — The U.S. Supreme Court declined Jan. 17 to reconsider a lower court’s decision barring a North Carolina county from invoking prayers in Jesus’ name at twice-a-month meetings of its main governing body. The court declined without comment…
At 27, new imam represents a homegrown American Islam
ST. LOUIS (RNS) — At just 27 years old, Asif Umar is the new imam of Daar-ul-Islam mosque, the largest mosque in the metro area. The son of Indian immigrants is devoted to the city’s sports teams, marking the end…
Pressler denies Santorum endorsement was rigged
By Bob Allen The host of a weekend gathering of religious conservatives seeking consensus on an alternative presidential candidate to GOP front-runner Mitt Romney denied charges that balloting was rigged to give Rick Santorum the nod over rivals Newt Gingrich…
MLK holiday a day of service for church
By Alice Horner Observing a national holiday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., members of a Baptist church in Baltimore took advantage of their day off from work for service opportunities as a way to live out the…
MLK holiday a day of service for Baltimore church
BALTIMORE (ABP) — Observing a national holiday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., members of a Baptist church in Baltimore took advantage of their day off from work for service opportunities as a way to live out the…
Muslims say Ron Paul is their kind of Republican
NEW YORK (RNS) — Growing up in rural parts of the American West, Nadja Adolf’s libertarian streak developed early on. “When you come from a countryside that can kill you,” said Adolf, a Muslim convert in her late 50s, “there…
Will evangelical endorsement fuel Santorum surge?
NEW YORK (RNS) — The Iowa caucuses revived Rick Santorum’s underdog presidential campaign. Now an influential assortment of Christian conservatives has moved to consecrate it. On Jan. 14, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania sewed up the endorsement from a…
COMMENTARY: Special treatment hurts both church and state
NEW YORK (RNS) — It’s time for religion to lose its special treatment in the Constitution and in tax codes. Not because religion has ceased to matter, but because it matters more than ever in our increasingly unethical society, and…
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Two years after quake, Baptist dedicate school, orphanage in Haiti
By Robert Dilday Almost exactly two years after a devastating earthquake killed thousands in Haiti, Baptists on the island nation and their international partners dedicated a building housing a school and orphanage for children impacted by the disaster. The Source…