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United Press International Washington – Prisons in the United States are following a government directive to purge their libraries of religious books, causing outrage among many inmates. The action, according to a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons, was prompted by a 2004 report listing things prisons should do to avoid becoming recruiting grounds for…

By Ansley Roan Religion News Service Each morning when she wakes up in her home in Jacksonville, Fla., Davel Patel begins her day with a puja, or worship ceremony, to the Hindu deity Ganesh. This Saturday (Sept. 15), she will begin her day in exactly the same way. Then she’ll begin a one-day fast to…

Associated Press Cairo, Egypt (AP) — Osama bin Laden appeared for the first time in three years in a video Friday released ahead of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, telling Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end. American officials said the U.S. government had…

Associated Press ATLANTA – The suicide rate among preteen and young teen girls spiked dramatically in a disturbing shift that federal health officials say they can’t fully explain. For all young people between ages 10 to 24, the suicide rate rose 8 percent from 2003 to 2004–the biggest single-year bump in 15 years–in what one…
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