iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Blog Entries by Josh Fleet from 02/2011

Bill Donohue Wary Of New Smithsonian Review Policy

Posted 02.01.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic League, A Fire in My Belly, Art, Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, Smithsonian Censorship, Smithsonian Institute, Hide/Seek, Bill Donohue, David Wojnarowicz, Religion News

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Critics who raised objections to a video at a Smithsonian exhibit that showed ants crawling...

Read Whole Story

What Does It Mean To Be An 'Ex-Christian'?

Posted 02.01.2011 | Religion
Read More: Christian Decline, Drew Dyck, Generation Ex-Christian, Converting From Christianity, Christian America, Leaving Christianity, Christianity in America, Christianity Today, Religion News

By Greg Richter Religion News Service (RNS) Drew Dyck didn't lose the Christian faith of his childhood when he became an adult, but he noticed that l...

Read Whole Story

Critics Wary Of New Smithsonian Review Policy

Posted 02.02.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic League, A Fire in My Belly, Art, Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, Smithsonian Censorship, Smithsonian Institute, Hide/Seek, Bill Donohue, David Wojnarowicz, Religion News

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Critics who raised objections to a video at a Smithsonian exhibit that showed ants crawling...

Read Whole Story

'U.S. Marine For Christ' Prompts Suit At Air Force Academy

Posted 02.02.2011 | Religion
Read More: U.S. Marine for Christ, Military Religious Freedom Foundation, Air Force Proselytizing, Military Proselytizing, Military Religious Freedom, Interfaith Alliance, Vietnam Veterans, Fundamentalist Christianity, National Prayer Luncheon, Religion in the Military, Religious Tolerance, Lt. Clebe McClary, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Professors at the U.S. Air Force Academy have filed suit in a bid to stop a school prayer l...

Read Whole Story

Don't Forget An Essential Part of Reagan's Bio -- His Faith

Posted 02.02.2011 | Religion
Read More: Reagan Biography, Ronald Reagan and Christianity, Reagan Faith, Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Birthday, Reagan Religion, Faith of Ronald Reagan, Religion News

By Paul G. Kengor USA Today (RNS) Retrospectives on Ronald Reagan as the nation marks the centennial of his birth will touch upon every imaginable as...

Read Whole Story

Bishop Blase Cupich On Protecting Children (VIDEO)

Posted 02.02.2011 | Religion
Read More: Clergy Abuse, Protecting Children, Catholic Sex Abuse, Catholic Church, Bishop Blase Cupich, Clergy Sex Abuse, US Bishops Committee on Protection of Children, Video, Religion News

Bishop Blase Cupich, chair of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Protection of Children and Young People, speaks about the work of the committee in implem...

Read Whole Story

Unlikely Jewish Heroine Hailed As 'Pure Enchantment'

Posted 02.02.2011 | Religion
Read More: girlamatic.com, Jewish Graphic Novel, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, Orthodox Jewish Pop Culture, Gender and Religion, Jewish Culture, Jewish Children's Books, Sydney Taylor Award, Jewish Role Model, Graphic Novels, Association of Jewish Libraries, Religion News

By Bob Smietana Religion News Service (RNS) Mirka is just another ordinary 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl. She goes to school and argues w...

Read Whole Story

Vatican To Draft Guidelines For Catholic Hospitals, AIDS Prevention

Posted 02.03.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Catholic Bioethical Standards, Bishop Jose L. Redrado, Catholic Hospital Guidelines, Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, AIDS Prevention, Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Pope Condoms, U.S. Catholic Hospitals, Religion News

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Controversies over bioethical standards at U.S. Catholic hospitals show the need for gre...

Read Whole Story

Judge's Ten Commandments Poster Ruled Unconstitutional

Posted 02.03.2011 | Religion
Read More: Moral Relativism, First Amendment Rights, American Center for Law and Justice, Judge James DeWeese, Moral Absolutes, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Expression, Supreme Court, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) An Ohio county court judge who argued that it was his First Amendment right to hang a poster about the...

Read Whole Story

German Theologians Call For End To Celibacy

Posted 02.04.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Catholic Vow of Celibacy, German University Theologians, German Theologians, Catholic Celibacy, Clergy Sex Abuse, Roman Catholic Church, German Bishop Conference, Married Catholic Priest, Female Catholic Priest, Gay Catholic Priest, Religion News

BERLIN — University theologians in Germany have called on the Catholic Church to abandon the vow of celibacy for priests, open up the clergy for...

Read Whole Story

Pope Can't Be Organ Donor, Church Says

Posted 02.05.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Rev. Federico Lombardi, Vatican Radio, Requirements for Sainthood, Monsignor Georg Ganswein, Dr. Gero Winkelmann, Catholicism and Organ Donation, Organ Donation, Pope Benedict Organ Donation, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Organ Donor, Religion News

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI was once a card-carrying organ donor, but the offer expired when he as...

Read Whole Story

Woman Recounts Bomb Memories From Historic Church

Posted 02.05.2011 | Religion
Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King, Eugene "Bull" Conor, Segregation, While the World Watched, Carolyn McKinstry, Ku Klux Klan, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Black Southern Christians, Denise George, Civil Rights, While the World Watched Book, Religion News

By Greg Garrison Religion News Service BIRMINGHAM, Ala.(RNS) Carolyn McKinstry pointed to a doorway in the balcony of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...

Read Whole Story

Time In U.S. Shaped Influential Muslim Brotherhood Member's Views Of West

Posted 02.07.2011 | Religion
Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Protests, Sayyid Qutb, Egypt Revolution, Radical Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Muslims and the West, Islam and the West, Muslim Extremism, Religion News

By Omar Sacirbey Religion News Service (RNS) Is the jazz standard "Baby It's Cold Outside" a heart-warming ode to winter romance or the worst example...

Read Whole Story

U.K. Catholics Caution Followers On 'Dangers' Of Witchcraft

Posted 02.07.2011 | Religion
Read More: Elizabeth Dodd, Catholic Church, Occult Practices, Catholic Truth Society, United Kingdom, Paganism, Roman Catholic Church in England, Harry Potter, Wicca and Witchcraft, Harry Potter and Christian, Religion News

By Al Webb Religion News Service LONDON (RNS) The Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, worried about the growing influence of Harry Potter and...

Read Whole Story

Consumer Protection Chief Seeks Allies In Faith Leaders

Posted 02.08.2011 | Religion
Read More: Progressive National Baptist Convention, Financial Crisis, Elizabeth Warren, Obama Administration, Elizabeth Warren CFPA, Consumer Protection, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service WASHIGNTON (RNS) The architect of the Obama administration's new consumer protection bureau met with faith-b...

Read Whole Story

There's A Good Reason Why Benedict's Not An Organ Donor

Posted 02.09.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Pope Benedict Organ Donation, St. Peter's Basilica, Papal Funeral Traditions, Sainthood, Lives of the Popes, Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, Papal Remains, Religion News

By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) When Vatican officials announced last week that Pope Benedict XVI's 2005 election render...

Read Whole Story

Baha'is Press Case Of Relatives Imprisoned In Iran

Posted 02.09.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religious Persecution, Imprisoned Baha'i, Baha'i, Religious Minorities in Iran, Baha'i in Iran, Religious Freedom in Iran, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Iran, Religion News

By Richard Yeakley Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) A delegation of Baha'is is making the rounds in Washington in an effort to raise awareness ...

Read Whole Story

Buddhist Bhutan Wrestles With 'Shocking' Abuse Study

Posted 02.10.2011 | Religion
Read More: Gross National Happiness, Domestic Violence Bhutan, Bhutan, Buddhist Teachings, Bhutan National Statistics Bureau, Mahayana Buddhism, Bhutan Multiple Indicator Survey, Religion News

By Vishal Arora Religion News Service NEW DELHI (RNS) The government commissioner charged with promoting "Gross National Happiness" in the tiny Buddh...

Read Whole Story

Quebec Bans Sikh Daggers From Capitol

Posted 02.10.2011 | Religion
Read More: Religious Tolerance, Sikh Kirpan, Religion and Security, Religious Understanding, Sikhism, Quebec, Religious Freedom, Religion Neutrality in Canada, Religion in Canada, Sikhs in Canada, Religion News

By Ron Csillag Religion News Service TORONTO (RNS) Lawmakers in the province of Quebec voted unanimously on Wednesday (Feb. 9) to ban the kirpan, a S...

Read Whole Story

Towey Named President Of Catholic Ave Maria University

Posted 02.11.2011 | Religion
Read More: Ave Maria University, Catholic Church, Catholic Liberal Arts University, Jim Towey, Tom Monaghan, Conservative Catholic University, Florida Catholic University, Religion News

By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service (RNS) Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan has stepped down from leading the conservative Catholic university ...

Read Whole Story

Behind a Mighty Civil Rights Icon, a Public and Private Prayer Life

Posted 02.13.2011 | Religion
Read More: Civil Rights, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) The late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has long been hailed as a civil rights leader, but religious stud...

Read Whole Story

Child In Faith-Healing Case Continues To Improve

Posted 02.14.2011 | Religion
Read More: Faith Healing Oregon, Oregon Department of Human Services, Followers of Christ Oregon, Faith Healing, Alayna Wyland, Prayer Healing, Health, Religion News

By Steve Mayes Religion News Service OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) A 13-month-old child who faced blindness in one eye after her parents treated her with p...

Read Whole Story

For Muslim Nominee, An Unorthodox Path To N.J. Court

Posted 02.14.2011 | Religion
Read More: Muslim American Community, New Jersey Supreme Court Nominees, Sohail Mohammed, NJ Superior Court Nominees, Sohail Mohammed Immigration Lawyer, Islam in American, Muslim American Judge, Chris Christie's Superior Court Nominees, Religion News

By Simone Sebastian Religion News Service TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) Sohail Mohammed doesn't work for a big-name law firm. He holds a GED diploma, and he pr...

Read Whole Story

Church Givers Also Give To Charities

Posted 02.14.2011 | Religion
Read More: Christian Charity, Religious Philanthropy, Grey Matter Research Consulting, Trends in Charitable Giving, Church Giving, Church Charity, American Charity Trends, American Charitable Giving, Religion News

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Houses of worship and other charities often aren't in competition for dollars but instead tend to reap...

Read Whole Story

Top Church Official Indicted In Philly Abuse Probe

Posted 02.14.2011 | Religion
Read More: Monsignor Michael Meyers, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, Clergy Sex Abuse Victims, Catholic Church, Monsignor William Lynn, Clergy Sex Abuse, Religion News

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service (RNS) Advocates for victims of clergy sexual abuse are hailing the indictment of a senior Roman Catholic offici...

Read Whole Story