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A high-powered interfaith coalition in D.C. this morning will demand — among other measures — a criminal background check for every gun buyer. (Check back later with RNS for the full story.)
Meanwhile, President Obama considers executive action on the gun front.
Myrlie Evers-Williams will be the first laywoman to give the invocation at a presidential invocation and RNS’s Adelle Banks is the first reporter to get a religion-focused interview with her as she prepares for the big day.
The fact that 36 percent of Americans have changed their minds on gay marriage is a heck of a statistic. Here’s one story behind the numbers: a Catholic mother, her soon-to-be married gay son, and a save-the-date card.
Many a mosque are seeking an imam who knows both Islam and American culture, and English and Arabic. Tracy Simmons reports on the great dearth of imams across the country.
“I was a stranger . . . ” More than 150 evangelical leaders release a video to push for immigration reform.
British Airways should not have prohibited an employee from wearing a cross on the job, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. But the ECHR refused to side with three other Britons who brought religious freedom issues to the court.
Youths throw a petrol bomb at a Catholic Church in Northern Ireland, the latest salvo in a dispute I naively thought was settled in a peace deal brokered 15 years ago.
French Jewry could disappear according to the leader of France’s Jewish community, and Haaretz finds disarray in the world’s largest kosher certification agency.
In Hong Kong, 3-D Buddhas are projected onto a the walls of a cave, so that the actual frescoes depicted by the technology can remain safe from tourists in the grotto in which they were painted, 1,500 years ago.
“Five handsome and two not so handsome” Jewish men place a Craigslist ad for Shabbos dates. Discuss.
The Atlantic magazine Monday published, then unpublished, a glowing advertorial from the Church of Scientology that looked like any other page on the periodical’s website.
In Royal Religion News — because even if it’s boring, I am still interested — the Prince and Princess of Monaco meet Pope Benedict XVI.
- Lauren Markoe
4 Comments
RJ
Please correct a typo you have. It’s Buddha, not Bhudda.
Thanks
kevan scott
life begins at conception? then why don’t we call the two cells that divide at conception born instead of when the gestation period ends and the baby is delivered and we call that being “born’? Biblically, in the o. T. moses gave an account of two men fighting and they accidentally, while they were fighting, ran into a pregnant woman and caused her to miscarry. moses said the men should pay her an amount of money to pay for her miscarring but did not charge the men with murder or manslaughter. Why? if the all powerful god was all powerful and knew that in the future we would develop the technology to save fetus’s from dying in the womb, why didn’t God then charge those men with murder way back then? Because even god himself, in my opinion, knew the difference between a fetus and a born baby. end of abortation debate in my book.
Lloyd Dobbin
I’m always amused by people who don’t have any faith but still troll sites where people of faith gather. It’s like a heckler at a comedy club, why bother to show up? Are you trying to prove you worth and value above those who happen to be here? Kevan, you spin around like a whirling dervish and move not an inch in your foolish arguments.
yedidnefesh
Kevan, who you claim has no faith, has succintly, perhaps unknowingly, stated the Orthodox Jewish position on abortion: a fetus is a potential human life but does not have the same status as a born child. Therefore abortion is frowned upon, but is not murder.
What any of this has to do with today’s news roundup I have no idea.