Adelle M. Banks

Military chaplains may officiate at same-sex marriage ceremonies on
and off military bases, the Pentagon has announced, in a move that
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WAHSINGTON (RNS) Religious freedom advocates rallied Wednesday (Sept.
28) around an Iranian pastor who is facing execution because he has
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(RNS) American congregations have grown less healthy in the last decade,
with fewer people in the pews and aging memberships, according to a new
Hartford Seminary study.

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Does the Southern Baptist Con­vention need a new name? The president
of the nation's largest Protestant denomination, Bryant Wright, who is
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WASHINGTON (RNS) The independent and bipartisan U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom could be forced to shut its doors if the
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(RNS) Don't look for children's Sunday school classes at Ridgewood
Church in Port Arthur, Texas. And forget about scavenger hunts and water
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WASHINGTON (RNS) The State Department on Tuesday (Sept. 13) designated
eight nations as the most serious violators of religious freedom, naming
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(RNS) Pop quiz: Who said "We often suffer, but we are never crushed.
Even when we don't know what to do, we never give up"?

(RNS) New York-area residents are more spiritually active since 9/11, a
new survey shows, but the uptick in faith may be a matter of coincidence
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In a post-9/11 bid to better relations with Muslims, pastor Bob
Roberts invited Muslims to his NorthWood Church in Keller, Texas, for
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At age 93, famed preacher Gard­ner Taylor never thought he'd live to
see the day when his friend Martin Luther King Jr. would be honored with
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(RNS) Two and a half weeks after the sudden death of its president, the
outhern Christian Leadership Conference has named a nephew of the Rev.
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WASHINGTON (RNS) A black denomination that began 50 years ago in support
of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has decried the "disrespect" shown to
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Prison Fellowship, a prominent evangelical ministry to inmates, has laid off dozens of employees, citing the faltering economy.

In the weeks since North Carolina's legislature laid off most of its
prison chaplains, Betty Brown, director of prison chaplaincy services,
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More than 250 colleges, universities and seminaries have submitted
plans to the White House for yearlong interfaith service projects in
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(RNS) Women, long considered the dominant pew dwellers in the nation's
churches, have shown a dramatic drop in attendance in the last two
decades, a new survey shows.

(RNS) The Rev. Howard Creecy Jr., a Baptist preacher chosen early this
year as the new president of the Southern Christian Leadership
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