Interfaith Religious News Service

By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer document.write(getElapsed(”20070926T223821Z”));
SALT LAKE CITY - Prosecutors filed a rape charge Wednesday against the ex-husband whose marriage was at the center of polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs’ trial.
The charge against Allen Glade Steed came a day after Jeffs was convicted of rape by accomplice.

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By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press Writer document.write(getElapsed(”20070926T225100Z”));
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Six Catholic nuns have been excommunicated for heresy after refusing to give up membership in a Canadian sect whose founder claims to be the reincarnation of the Virgin Mary, the Diocese of Little Rock announced Wednesday.

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By JENNIFER DOBNER, Associated Press Writer document.write(getElapsed(”20070925T215853Z”));
ST. GEORGE, Utah - The leader of a polygamous Mormon splinter group was convicted Tuesday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
Warren Jeffs, 51, could get life in prison after a trial that threw […]

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Prominent evangelical leaders who spent the summer hoping Fred Thompson would emerge as their favored Republican presidential contender are having doubts as he begins his long-teased campaign.  

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The only surviving witness to a decades-long conspiracy theory has firmly denied the Catholic Church is hiding details about a predicted apocalypse.

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The Archbishop of Bulawayo, Robert Mugabe’s most outspoken and enduring critic, has resigned over a sex scandal in a stunning propaganda coup for the Zimbabwean president.

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The Archbishop of Canterbury used the eve of the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America yesterday to defend religion against claims that it promotes division and violence.

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Los Angeles, USA - The federal appeals court in San Francisco yesterday upheld a death sentence from a jury that had consulted the Bible’s teachings on capital punishment.

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 Some 250 supporters of human rights gathered to protest at the new Wembley Stadium during the England-Israel qualifying match for the Euro 2008 competition - highlighting the plight of a Palestinian youth team denied a visa to visit Britain.

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The Ben Gamla Charter School, created to teach Hebrew as a second language, finds out today whether it can start teaching the language again after a three-week break.
Broward School Board members will vote on the school’s curriculum. It’s the fourth time the school has gone to the board to have its teaching material approved.

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Canterbury (ENI). Leaders of Britain’s Hindu community are expressing disbelief and outrage at claims by two English church ministers that yoga should be banned after saying that the meditative exercise is a sham and not compatible with Christianity.

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News of the planned sale of their convent to help pay a clergy sex abuse settlement has brought promises of assistance and media attention.

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 LAKEVILLE — Drums pounded, witches danced and smudge wands wafted the aroma of burning sage and lavender on the afternoon breeze. It was Pagan Pride Day on Sunday and the gathering drew a diverse crowd that included musicians, spiritual practitioners, herbalists, crafters and the simply curious to Ted Williams camp.

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HALIFAX - A Halifax witch says she is being forced out of town.

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(AP) The war in Iraq is not over, but one legacy is already here in this city and others across America: an epidemic of brain-damaged soldiers.

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Israeli police have broken up a neo-Nazi cell that had been carrying out attacks on religious Jews, homosexuals, drug addicts and workers, in a case that has shocked the Jewish state.

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Labour’s latest equality law will deprive Christians of the right of free speech, the Church of England has warned.

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VIENNA, Austria - A larger-than-life image of Pope Benedict beams down at passers-by from billboards around Vienna. But few Austrians are smiling back.

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September 9, 2007  skip to nav France ‘was seconds’ from downing Israeli jet France and Israel are on a collision course in south Lebanon following incidents involving Israeli warplanes over- flying the positions of the French military contingent serving with the UN peacekeeping force there.

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As the European Network’s study of church finances unfolds, it will face a striking diversity in European church/state relations — ranging from France’s strict Enlightenment-era separation of church and state to Germany’s generous “church tax.”

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