Obama expands benefits to same-sex partners
June 17, 2010
President Barack Obama extended more benefits June 2 to the same-sex partners of federal employees. Adding to privileges he bestowed on partners of homosexual federal
Muslims order Christians to leave village in Pakistan
June 17, 2010
KHANEWAL, Pakistan — The head of a Muslim village ordered 250 Christian families to leave their homes in Khanewal district, Punjab province, area residents said.
Episcopal head defends church’s acceptance of homosexuals
June 17, 2010
NEW YORK — Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has forcefully defended her church’s embrace of gays and lesbians and firmly rejected efforts to centralize
Hindu extremists attack Indian church, place idol inside
June 17, 2010
TADIPATRI, India — Hindu extremists from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh organization damaged a church building and installed an idol of the Hindu god Hanuman inside
Graduation service can’t be in a church, judge says
June 10, 2010
BLOOMFIELD, Conn. — A federal judge ruled May 31 that a Connecticut school district’s plan to hold graduation ceremonies in a megachurch violates the constitutionally
States betting on gambling as an economic answer ‘prey on the weak’
June 10, 2010
Several states are turning to gambling for potential income amid budget shortfalls, even as the American Gaming Association reported that revenue from casino gambling fell
Two Iranian Christian women acquitted of all charges
June 10, 2010
TEHRAN, Iran — Nearly five months after releasing them from prison, an Iranian court has acquitted two women of all charges related to being Christians
Pastor seeks zero-tolerance ban on racism in SBC
June 10, 2010
A prominent black pastor has announced plans to ask the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to amend its constitution to ban churches that condone racism. Dwight
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