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RALEIGH, N.C. – What was supposed to be an honor – a cover story about a group of successful women pastors – has instead been tarnished for a Durham non-denominational church leader. Sheryl Brady, the 48-year-old pastor of The River Church, was featured among four other women pastors on the cover of Gospel Today, a…

WASHINGTON (RNS) Anti-Muslim discrimination reached an all-time high in 2007, according to a report released Wednesday (Sept. 24) by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The District of Columbia and just nine other states account for 80 percent of the civil rights complaints. California leads with one in five complaints, followed by Washington, D.C., and…

Washington – The Presbyterian Church (USA) is inviting all Presbyterians to participate in a monthly church-wide fast for “repentance, reflection, and coordinated actions” to empathize with those suffering from hunger and famine around the world. Over the next year, the denomination will study aspects of the world hunger crisis, including trade policies, climate change and…

Fouke, Ark. – Six minors have been temporarily placed in state custody as part of a child porn investigation after a raid on a ministry run by a man who says “consent is puberty” when it comes to sex, officials said Sunday. The children will be in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Human…

Chicago – Each evening at about 6:30 p.m., Idrees Muhammad sets out a modest feast in Shan Foods, a part-eatery, part-convenience store on the city’s north side. A fleet of taxi cabs pulls up to the strip mall soon after. Sweetened milk, a container of dates, a tray of fruit tossed with cumin and cinnamon,…

By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. State Department, in its annual report on international religious freedom issued Friday (Sept. 19), admonished several Asian nations, including China, for severely repressing religion. Listing “countries of particular concern” that engage in or tolerate “particularly severe violations of religious freedom,” the report highlights everything from…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Responding to a call from their Third World counterparts, U.S. evangelical leaders are urging church members to pay greater attention to global poverty, saying increased advocacy is necessary in light of the current U.S. financial crisis. Last month, 21 leaders of churches in Africa, Asia and South…

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services — Unrestricted – September 22, 2008 Sep. 20–RICHARDSON — In a banquet room above the student union’s bopping pingpong balls and blaring arcade games, the groan of empty stomachs met the hum of Arabic prayer. Tables of 20-somethings at the University of Texas at Dallas drooled over plates of hummus as their…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service (RNS) Four in 10 Americans believe that religious leaders should be permitted to endorse political candidates from the pulpit without risking their organization’s tax-exempt status, a new survey by the First Amendment Center shows. Twenty-two percent of respondents “strongly” agreed and 18 percent “mildly” agreed that religious leaders…

BBC Monitoring Middle East – September 19, 2008 At 0805 gmt on 19 September, Iranian radio and the Iranian News Network began broadcasting live Tehran Friday prayer sermons led by supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamene’i in Tehran University Campus. President Ahmadinezhad, a number MPs including Speak Larijani, former Speaker Haddad-Adel and current vice-Speaker Bahonar,…
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