Suit says student dismissed over gay views
April 30, 2009
DETROIT — A conservative legal group has filed suit against Eastern Michigan University (EMU) on behalf of a graduate student who claims she was dismissed
Uzbekistan fines religious groups for voicing beliefs
April 30, 2009
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan continues to harass and fine Christians, Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses who exercise their freedom of thought, conscience or belief. In a
Patriarch of gospel’s Winans family dies at 74
April 30, 2009
NASHVILLE — David “Pop” Winans, the patriarch of the famed gospel-singing Winans family, died April 8 with his wife of 55 years, Delores “Mom” Winans,
Sri Lanka tables bill to criminalize social assistance
April 30, 2009
KOTTE, Sri Lanka — An anti-conversion bill that would have criminalized humanitarian assistance provided by religious groups has been tabled in Sri Lanka’s Parliament. The
Widow sentenced for allowing Saudi men into home
April 30, 2009
AL-SHAMLI, Saudi Arabia — A 75-year-old widow in Saudi Arabia was sentenced to 40 lashes and four months in jail for allowing two young men
North Carolina native creates dresses for Africa’s orphans
April 30, 2009
The orphaned girls stood silently as the brown-paper parcels were opened, their eyes widening as they began to think maybe this was something for them.
Secular society offers ‘de-baptism’ certificates
April 23, 2009
LONDON — A secular organization in Britain that backs an atheist ad campaign on London’s buses is now producing “certificates of de-baptism” for people wishing
Philadelphia churches sweep city with GPS
April 23, 2009
The rustle of plastic door-hanger bags was a telltale sound of a windy Philadelphia day and evidence that members of Haitian Evangelical Baptist Church visited
