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Anti-Alcohol Bill Leaves Many Turks Dispirited 06-05-2013BY JACOB RESNECK | ISTANBUL
(RNS) Turkey is about to enact the strictest alcohol laws in the republic’s 89-year history in a move that some Turks complain is part of a creeping Islamist agenda.
The bill suppo...
‘Nuns on the Bus’ Kick Off Immigration Tour 05-31-2013BY DAVID GIBSON | JERSEY CITY
(RNS) With the Statue of Liberty as a backdrop, the “Nuns on the Bus” on Wednesday (May 29) kicked off a national tour for immigration reform aimed at giving a faith-based pus...
Lacking Recognition, Italy’s Muslims Face an Uncertain Future 05-29-2013BY MUSTAFA HAMEED | ROME
(RNS) Steps from the immense colonnade of St. Peter’s Square, Sarwar Jahan stood next to his souvenir stand. A dark, clean-shaven man wearing a navy blue jacket and a black knit cap, Jah...
Pastor's Tornado Tweets Stir Up a Theological Debate 05-27-2013(RNS) Oklahoma’s devastating tornado stirred up a theological debate that was set off from a series of deleted tweets referencing the Book of Job.
Popular evangelical author and speaker John Piper regularly twee...
ETHICS: Do Americans Really Care How Their Clothes Are Made? 05-22-2013BY CALUM MCLEOD | DHAKA, Bangladesh
(RNS) Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good.
Making shirts in this packed metropolis of 12 million people, Sheuli...
Can Grief Be a Mental Illness? With New Diagnostic Changes, Maybe 05-21-2013BY TIM TOWNSEND
(RNS) Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent.
On Saturday (May 18), in a move that could add to the tension between reli...
Anti-Shariah Movement Changes Tactics and Gains Success 05-20-2013BY OMAR SACIRBEY
(RNS) When Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly approved a 2010 ballot measure that prohibits state courts from considering Islamic law, or Shariah, the Council of American-Islamic Relations filed a lawsuit...
