by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 24, 2011 | News
(RNS) Is sending a secret informant into a mosque in search of terrorists proactive policing, or a violation of worshippers’ civil rights? That’s the question a federal judge will have to answer after the American Civil Liberties Union and the Council of...
by Omar Sacirbey | Feb 8, 2011 | News
(RNS) The proposed Park51 Islamic community center and mosque project near Ground Zero is again looking for a top imam after Sheik Abdallah Adhami resigned the post less than one month into the job. Adhami, 44, said in a statement he was leaving to devote more time to...
by Monty Self | Feb 7, 2011 | Opinion
Prior to the Founding Fathers’ prohibition against the establishment of religion and support for the free exercise of religion, Baptists were speaking up for the right to worship. Before John Locke elegantly wrote about religious liberty, Baptists were already...
by Brian Kaylor | Feb 4, 2011 | News
Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, recently quit a group that defends the religious liberty rights of Muslims. Even as Land quit the group because of criticism from some Southern Baptists, he defended...
by Adelle M. Banks | Jan 26, 2011 | News
(RNS) A top leader of the Southern Baptist Convention has resigned from a new interfaith coalition, saying some fellow Southern Baptists felt it was inappropriate for him to support the building of mosques. Richard Land, who heads the SBC’s Ethics and Religious...
