by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 17, 2010 | News
(RNS) The Amherst, N.Y.-based Center for Inquiry (CFI) has changed the name of its International Blasphemy Day to International Blasphemy Rights Day in a bid t show that organizers are not interested in mocking religion for its own sake. CFI representatives said the...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 12, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) More than 40 Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders say they are deeply troubled by the opposition to a proposed Islamic community center and mosque located two blocks from ground zero in lower Manhattan. The statement singles out remarks made by former...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) Seven top leaders of the Baha’i faith who have been incarcerated in Iran since 2008 have each received jail sentences of 20 years after six months of court hearings that ended on June 14, according to the Baha’i World News Service. Bani Dugal,...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 6, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Twenty religious organizations are calling for Congress and President Obama to ensure a fair and thorough investigation into allegations of forced human experimentation by the CIA on detainees after 9/11. In June, the group Physicians for Human Rights...
by Alfredo Garcia | Aug 4, 2010 | News
(RNS) Brigham Young University was named the nation’s most religious campus, and Sarah Lawrence College the least religious, in new rankings released Tuesday (Aug. 3). The Princeton Review released the 2011 edition of their yearly assessment of The Best 373...
