by Zach Dawes Jr | Jan 20, 2023 | News
Hospitals and other health care settings are the most common locations for U.S. adults to encounter chaplains, according to a Gallup report published in December 2022. Only 25% of all U.S. adults said they have had an interaction with a chaplain at some point in their...
by Debra Rubin | Feb 7, 2012 | News
(RNS) Growing up in Kuwait, Asif Balbale thought he wanted to become a chemical engineer. He never imagined enlisting in the U.S. Navy, much less becoming an imam. Balbale got his engineering degree after immigrating to the U.S. at age 21. With jobs hard to come by,...
by Jack Jenkins | Oct 11, 2011 | News
BOSTON (RNS) As waves of demonstrators descended on New York City to protest corporate greed, they were met by typical sounds of raucous youth-led protests: drum beats, police sirens and shouted political slogans. They didn’t expect to hear hymns. Yet protestors...
by Yonat Shimron and Adelle Banks | Aug 10, 2011 | News
RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) In the two months since North Carolina’s legislature laid off most of its prison chaplains, Betty Brown, director of prison chaplaincy services, has been crisscrossing the state searching for volunteers who can attend to the religious needs of...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Jul 11, 2011 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) House lawmakers voted Thursday (July 7) to order the Pentagon to uphold the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. In an amendment to a larger Defense Department funding bill, the House voted 248-175 to...
