Civil union law leads Illinois agency to stop adoptions
June 16, 2011
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Catholic Charities of Rockford, Ill. — which works with 11 counties — has decided to stop offering foster care and adoption services
Vatican Bank’s financial integrity improves
June 16, 2011
VATICAN CITY — Prosecutors in Rome released $33 million in Vatican funds June 1 that had been frozen last September pending an investigation for possible
Egyptians want advice, not theocracy, survey says
June 16, 2011
WASHINGTON — Four months after the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a new Gallup survey says a majority of Egyptians want religious leaders to
Millennials shaping American culture, Rainer says
June 16, 2011
NASHVILLE — 78 million Americans born between 1980 and 2000, arguably the largest generation in the nation’s history — are shaping the American culture of
Broncos Tebow shares testimony in new memoir
June 16, 2011
Tim Tebow is a 23-year-old second-year, second-string quarterback on a so-so NFL team. So who’s going to buy his memoirs? What’s to remember? Only …
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws call for Bible ban
June 16, 2011
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Adam and Eve sans fig leaves, Lot getting drunk, Jesus stopping a stoning — this is all too much for Muslims represented
Assisted-suicide movement leader Kevorkian dies
June 16, 2011
ROYAL OAK, Mich. — Jack Kevorkian, who became the face of the assisted-suicide movement while helping a self-estimated 130 people kill themselves in the 1990s,
International religious freedom ambassador sworn in
June 16, 2011
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended her new ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom June 2, calling Suzan Johnson Cook a bridge-builder who
