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Associated Press St. Louis – August 8, 2007 – A federal appeals court has refused to consider whether Missouri’s lethal injection method of capital punishment is constitutional, leaving it unclear whether executions will resume in the state. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied a request by condemned inmate Michael Taylor to…

Associated Press Moscow- August 8 – A Russian Orthodox Church spokesman said Wednesday that the country’s schools should teach religious principles and moral values, and he accused some leading scientists of trying to impose the “ideology of science” on the education system. Father Vsevolod Chaplin was responding to a group of prominent scientists who recently…

RNS By Les Zaitz Portland, Ore. (RNS) The traces of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc., the Islamic charity shut nearly three years for ties to terrorism, are disappearing. The camel, once a feature in local parades, died. The prayer house on the outskirts of town was auctioned. The stockpile of religious books now sitting in a…

RNS By Valerie Faciane New Orleans — It’s been nearly two years since the statue of St. Gabriel last stood at the main entrance of St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church. Six feet of water poured into the church after Hurricane Katrina, toppling the statue and ruining the walls, pews, altar, piano and organ, in…
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