by Susan Page | Feb 22, 2012 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, leading the GOP field in national polls, is defending his views questioning prenatal testing and President Obama’s “theology.” The unapologetic advocacy by Santorum seemed sure to...
by David Gibson | Jan 26, 2012 | News
NEW YORK (RNS) In the wake of President Obama’s controversial decision to mandate that religious groups pay for contraceptives for their employees, much of the coverage focused on how the president had disappointed progressive allies by giving religious groups...
by Adelle M. Banks | Oct 29, 2010 | News
(RNS) Southern Baptist gadfly Wiley Drake will appeal a court’s dismissal of his suit claiming President Obama was not born in the U.S. and is ineligible for the presidency. Obama has a Hawaiian birth certificate but Drake and others in the “birther” movement claim he...
by Adelle M. Banks | Oct 29, 2010 | News
(RNS) The White House has denied reports that President Obama will avoid a Sikh shrine while visiting India next week because the required head covering might have fanned false rumors about his faith. “The decision we made was driven by … the interests of time,...
by Daniel Burke | Sep 10, 2010 | News
(RNS) President Obama has added his voice to a chorus of critics condemning a Florida pastor’s plans—now in doubt—to burn Qurans on Saturday (Sept. 11), the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. Obama on Thursday (Sept. 9) called the Quran burning a “recruitment...
