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BOSTON – A Massachusetts pharmacy college instituted a ban on clothing that obscures the face, including face veils and burqas, weeks after a Muslim alumnus who is also the son of a professor was charged with plotting terror strikes. The policy change at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Services, announced in a campus-wide…

WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Postal Service plans to honor Mother Teresa with a stamp this year in recognition of her humanitarian work. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun who died in 1997 will join the late actress Katharine Hepburn, athletes of Negro Leagues Baseball and stars of cowboy movies as celebrities featured on stamps in 2010.…

Human rights advocates say a conference with three Americans helped set the stage for a bill to execute homosexuals. Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in the Ugandan capital to give a series of talks. The theme of the event,…

NEW YORK (RNS/ENI) A prominent Muslim-American advocacy group has condemned the attempted bombing of a U.S.-bound flight on Christmas Day by a Nigerian Muslim, but has also warned of the dangers of “profiling” Muslims and others in the name of air security. In statements following the attempted attack on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam…
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