Associated Press Davenport, Iowa – August 7- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that whether he was a practicing Catholic was a personal matter as he declined to answer questions about his religion. Addressing a town-hall meeting in Iowa, the former New York mayor was asked whether he considered himself a “traditional, practicing Roman…

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…

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