Religion News Service | Religion and Social Issues

NEWS STORY: Catholic Republicans Gain Strength in New Congress

RNS Blog Editor | Jan 7, 2005

c. 2005 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The 109th Congress that opened this week contains not only solid Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, but also a record number of Catholic lawmakers, especially Republican Catholics. There are 154 Catholics in the new Congress _ an all-ti...
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NEWS FEATURE: A Scholar Sees Lessons for America in St. Paul’s Challenge to Rome

RNS Blog Editor | Dec 10, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service (UNDATED) The Roman Empire lies in ruins in more than one place. In Priene, Turkey, huge chunks of stone lie like blocks scattered on a playroom floor. Toppled pillars, some carved in letters a foot high, proclaim that Caesar, the Roman emperor, was the son of a god....
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NEWS STORY: Religious Groups Mull Options as Canadian Court OKs Gay Marriage

RNS Blog Editor | Dec 10, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service OTTAWA _ Religious and pro-family groups who oppose gay marriage tried to make the best of Thursday's (Dec. 9) Supreme Court ruling that paves the way for Canada to become the third country to allow nationwide recognition of gay marriages. The court's opinion, in a...
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NEWS FEATURE: With Faith, Hope and Loans of $100 or Less, Uganda Battles Poverty, AIDS

RNS Blog Editor | Nov 24, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service NTUNGAMO, Uganda Generous Katagira, 26, says she should be thinking about getting married. Most Ugandan women her age have already settled down and started a family. But Katagira is not like most Ugandan women. A university graduate, she manages the office of a Chri...
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RNS Daily Digest

RNS Blog Editor | Nov 10, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service Survey Suggests Iraq War Was Most Important `Moral' Issue (RNS) The war in Iraq was the most important ``moral issue'' for voters in last week's election, according a national poll by progressive groups, far outpacing abortion and gay marriage as top-shelf concerns....
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NEWS STORY: Catholic Church Stands Against Socialist Tide in Spain

RNS Blog Editor | Nov 1, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service MADRID, Spain _ Brown-eyed Nuria Ramos stood outside this city's 11th-century San Gines church one recent morning, sounding the warning that Spain's leftist government was driving the country into a moral abyss. Under one arm, the bubbly Christian youth volunteer cr...
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NEWS STORY: Campaigns Target Hispanics With Faith-Based Messages

RNS Blog Editor | Oct 29, 2004

c. 2004 Religion & Ethics Newsweekly DEMING, N.M. _ Republicans and Democrats alike are using faith-based appeals in an effort to attract the rapidly growing but largely untapped Hispanic population, according to activists and academics. ``There's a line in the `Our Father,' you know: `Thy will...
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NEWS DIGEST: Religion in Canada

RNS Blog Editor | Oct 27, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service Islamic Leaders in Trouble Over Comments TORONTO (RNS) Pressure is building on a Canadian Muslim leader to resign after comments he made about killing Israeli civilians, and at the same time police are probing a Vancouver Islamic cleric for calling Jews ``the brothe...
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NEWS STORY: Religious Leaders Frustrated That Poverty Goes Unnoticed in Election

RNS Blog Editor | Oct 27, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service WASHINGTON _ The Rev. Bob Vitillo has heard a lot of talk about swing states, blue states and red states, but the one state no one is talking about this election year is what he calls America's ``51st state'' _ the 36 million Americans living in poverty who, grouped t...
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COMMENTARY: Church Leaders Should Butt Out of the Ballot Box

RNS Blog Editor | Oct 27, 2004

c. 2004 Religion News Service (Frances Coleman is editorial page editor of the Mobile (Ala.) Register.) (UNDATED) I am a lifelong Roman Catholic and proud of it. I love my church. But I have a message for some of the men who are running its American branch these days: Cut it out, guys. You h...
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