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Court: Groups Must Offer Contraceptives
New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that social service agencies run by the Roman Catholic Church and other faiths must provide birth-control coverage to their employees, even if they consider contraception a sin.
Oct 23, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Life, Citizenship, Legislation, Religious Liberty
Boy Scouts suffer a legal setback in Supreme Court over discrimination
Six years after the Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts could ban gay leaders, the group is fighting and losing legal battles with state and local governments over its discriminatory policies.
Oct 20, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Abuse, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Church and State, Community Service, Human Rights, Legislation, Religious Liberty
Iraq’s Christians Flee as Extremist Threat Worsens
The blackened shells of five cars still sit in front of the Church of the Virgin Mary here, stark reminders of a bomb blast that killed two people after a recent Sunday Mass.
Oct 17, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, Persecution, Religious Liberty
Evangelicals Blame Foley, Not Republican Party
As word of Representative Mark Foley’s sexually explicit e-mail messages to former pages spread last week, Republican strategists worried — and Democrats hoped — that the sordid nature of the scandal would discourage conservative Christians from going to the polls. But in dozens of interviews here in southeastern Virginia, a conservative Christian stronghold that is a battleground in races for the House and Senate, many said the episode only reinforced their reasons to vote for their two Republican incumbents in neck-and-neck re-election fights, Representative Thelma Drake and Senator George Allen.
Oct 9, 2006
Topic: Faith, Family, Citizenship, Christian Citizenship, National
Danforth Warns of Christian Right but Says Tide Will Turn
The potency of the Christian right in the Republican Party is limited, former senator John C. Danforth of Missouri is telling audiences this month. A lifelong Republican moderate disturbed by his party’s direction, he contends that the political center has a future.
Sep 28, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Social Issues
Enough Apologies
Already, angry Palestinian militants have assaulted seven West Bank and Gaza churches, destroying two of them. In Somalia, gunmen shot dead an elderly Italian nun. Radical clerics from Qatar to Qom have called, variously, for a “day of anger” or for worshipers to “hunt down” the pope and his followers.
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, Religious Liberty
Muslim anger spreads to South Asia
Extremists called yesterday for an Islamic army to march on Rome because of remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, while a well-known Muslim firebrand said in London that the pontiff should face “capital punishment.”
Sep 19, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, Religious Liberty
Republicans and Evangelicals: Yes, this marriage can be saved
SPOOKED by the political might of religious conservatives, secular liberals and faithful Demo crats are taking comfort from some recent headlines.
Sep 14, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National
Democrats Push for Own Religious Voice
David Wilhelm once drew hisses when he suggested that Christians could be Republicans or Democrats. Years later, Wilhelm is spreading that message again, and he’s hoping for a better response this time.
Sep 4, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Religious Liberty
Chaplains help carry spiritual load of war
They look like the other soldiers, but the Army’s airborne chaplains are noncombatants who carry camo-covered Bibles instead of weapons when it’s time to leap from aircraft onto the battlefield.
Aug 9, 2006
Topic: Faith, Citizenship, National, Social Issues, War