Earlier this year retailers Gap, Old Navy and Ikea voluntarily gave their minimum wage employees a pay raise. The only hope for a raise for
According to the National Employment Law Project, minimum wage workers in the United States would now be earning close to $11 an hour if the
Houston mayor Annise Parker announced Oct. 29 she is withdrawing the subpoenas that were issued to five local pastors. “It was never our intention to
KING OF PRUSSIA, Penn. — The American Baptist Churches (ABC) USA has approved an emergency grant of $120,000 to provide food and medical supplies to
After being accused of desecrating the Quran, a Pakistani Christian couple and their unborn child were beaten by an Islamist mob and thrown into a
Terminally ill cancer patient and right-to-die advocate Brittany Maynard ended her own life Nov. 1 at her Portland, Ore. home, taking a lethal prescription administered
MONROVIA, Calif. — At an organization where 45 percent of United States senior leaders are women, Romanita Hairston’s gender is mostly a nonissue as she
Richard Shahan, former children and families pastor of First Baptist Church, Birmingham, has been indicted in his wife’s murder, according to media reports Oct. 23.
