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By Tim Murphy Religion News Service (RNS) With summer wildfires raging across the western United States, California’s two largest Indian tribes are taking aim at Forest Service officials who they say are interfering with sacred lands. Members of the Yurok and Kurak nations consider the afflicted high country in Six Rivers National Forest to be…

By Lucky Severson c. 2008 Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly (UNDATED) All eyes are on China as it plays host to the 2008 Olympic games, and for the moment, earlier unrest over China’s treatment of Tibet has largely moved off center stage — much to Beijing’s relief. Yet the decades-long tussle over Tibet continues to color…

Associated Press – August 14, 2008 ANDALUSIA, Alabama – An Alabama judge who once wore the Ten Commandments of the Bible embroidered on his robe has been accused of violating judicial ethics for ordering a group in his courtroom to hold hands and pray. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint against Covington County…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service Washington – Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt says draft proposals to protect the conscience-driven objections of health care providers do not and will not seek to curb access to contraceptives. “An early draft of the regulations found its way into public circulation before it had reached…

Associated Press Houston – The wife of televangelist Joel Osteen did not assault a flight attendant during an angry tirade over a stain on her first-class seat, a jury ruled Thursday. Jurors rejected Continental Airlines flight attendant Sharon Brown’s claims that Victoria Osteen threw her against a bathroom door and elbowed her in the left…

Chicago Tribune Chicago – The Rev. Greg Moser keeps a stack of books on jihad in Asia next to a copy of the Bible in his office. He stores a “battle book” in a drawer at United in Faith Lutheran Church in northwest Chicago. And when Moser is not tending to his flock, the fit…

Associated Press – August 12, 2008 CHICAGO – The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago said Tuesday it had agreed to pay more than $12.6 million to settle lawsuits by 16 people who accused priests of sexual abuse. “My hope is that these settlements will help the survivors and their families begin to heal and move forward,”…

By Adelle M. Banks c. 2008 Religion News Service DAMASCUS, Md. — On Sunday mornings at Damascus Road Community Church, when the children are dismissed from the sanctuary for Sunday school, another set of children and adults head to “The Haven.” As many as four dozen people gather in the church gym to play games…

Associated Press – August 13, 2008 NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania – An American woman was sentenced to eight to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for killing her bigamist husband as he was set to travel to Africa to see his second Muslim wife. Myra Morton, 48, tearfully apologized to the mother of victim Jereleigh Morton during…

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services The owners of a Chicago-based real estate investment firm were arrested Monday on federal fraud charges, and U.S. regulators accused them of conducting a quarter-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme going back as far as 2005. Steven Byers, 46, chief executive of WexTrust Capital LLC and an Oak Brook resident, and Joseph Shereshevsky, 51, a…
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