Jeff Anderson has represented hundreds of Catholic clergy abuse victims, going back to the 1980s when he was one of the few attorneys taking on these kinds of cases. Two of his lawsuits currently seek damages from the Holy See — in other words, Pope Benedict. In these cases, he is going up against Jeffrey…

As part of his ongoing efforts to repair America’s relationship with the Islamic world, President Obama is hosting a gathering of Muslim enterpreneurs in Washington this week. The two-day Presidential Summit on Entrepeneurship has brought together about 250 people from more than 50 countries, Agence France-Presse reports. The AFP notes that in his opening remarks, Commerce Secretary Gary…

A Haitian judge has dropped charges against nine of the 10 Baptist missionaries from America, but group organizer Laura Silsby remains in jail there at this time. (The rest of her group had already been released in February and March.) The Christian Post has the story. The volunteers, predominantly from two Idaho churches, had tried to take 33…

In his weekly column yesterday, New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt defended the newspaper’s coverage of the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse scandal. The NYT has received hundreds of letters complaining about its investigation, mainly from lay Catholics who agree with high-ranking church officials that the coverage unfairly and erroneously links Pope Benedict’s current and former…

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