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Will the Mormon Church’s racial history be a problem for Mitt Romney?

(RNS) Until 1978, African-Americans were denied full membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has refused to say whether he thinks his church's racial policies before then were misguided. Daniel Burke explores Mormons' troubled history with race.
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Blacks say atheists were unseen civil rights heroes

| Feb 22, 2012

Why is Martin Luther King, a Christian, remembered by so many for his contributions to the civil rights movement while A. Philip Randolph, an atheist, is honored by so few? That is a question many black nonbelievers are asking this Black History Month. By Kimberly Winston.
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FBI, Muslims report progress over training materials

| Feb 16, 2012

(RNS) The FBI said it was willing to consider a proposal from a coalition of Muslim and interfaith groups to establish a committee of experts tasked with reviewing literature and videos used anti-terrorism training, but it had not yet received a plan to consider.
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NCC leader to step down

| Nov 9, 2011

(RNS) The National Council of Churches announced on Wednesday (Nov. 9) that General Secretary Michael Kinnamon is resigning due to health reasons. Kinnamon, 63, told the ecumenical group's governing board that he must "immediately and significantly" reduce his activity, especially the frequent trave...
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Churches lose fight over Ala. immigration law

| Sep 29, 2011

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (RNS) A federal judge jolted the national immigration debate on Wednesday (Sept. 28) by approving most parts of Alabama's aggressive immigration law that religious leaders had called the "meanest" in the nation. In a ruling hailed by many state officials, U.S. District Judge Sha...
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Unitarian Universalist head convicted on protest charges

| Aug 8, 2011

(RNS) The head of the Unitarian Universalist Association has been convicted on misdemeanor charges for participating in a protest rally against Arizona's controversial immigration law. The Rev. Peter Morales, the first Latino president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, was found guilty on F...
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Israeli ambassador praises wartime pope

| Jun 24, 2011

(RNS) In a conciliatory gesture regarding one of the most sensitive points of Jewish-Catholic relations, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican praised the controversial wartime Pope Pius XII for his "actions to save the Jews" during the Holocaust. Mordechay Lewy made his remarks Thursday (June 23) at a...
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Bishop calls Ala. immigration law nation’s ‘meanest’

| Jun 16, 2011

(BIRMINGHAM) A new Alabama law that makes it a crime to offer rides to undocumented immigrants is the "meanest" immigration law in the country, according to a United Methodist bishop and respected theologian. Bishop William Willimon of the North Alabama Conference called the bill, which was recently...
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Obama rallies Hispanic Christians on immigration

| May 12, 2011

WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama assured Hispanic Christians on Thursday (May 12) that he hears their pleas for immigration reform, calling it a "moral imperative" that requires action from the pews and the White House. "What I can do is sign a law," he told more than 600 people gathered here for th...
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Many genocides to be commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day

| Jan 26, 2011

CANTERBURY, England (RNS/ENInews) After the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II, the world cried out "never again." But one of Britain's best-known young rabbis, Jonathan Romain, said the phrase has proved tragically wrong. "Genocide has happened again and again and again," he told...
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Unitarians move investments over Sudan conflict

| May 24, 2010

(RNS) The Unitarian Universalist Association is moving its retirement plan from Fidelity Investments to TIAA-CREF because of differing views on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. The church's estimated 2,800 retirement accounts -- totaling $173 million in investments -- will be moved to TIAA-CRE...
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