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By Jeff Diamant Religion News Service FORT DIX, N.J. – The Rev. Andrew Barton is a Presbyterian pastor who considers himself an advocate for peace and questions whether the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was justified. Yet he wants to be able to help counsel traumatized soldiers home from the war zone. He has…

Associated Press BAGHDAD – The slayings of two associates of Iraq’s top Shiite cleric raised fears Friday of a worsening Shiite power struggle in the country’s oil-rich south, prompting some clerics to go into hiding or abandon their robes and turbans for their own safety. The two were killed late Thursday in separate shootings within…

Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. – The North Carolina Medical Board overstepped its authority by threatening to punish physicians for participating in executions, a judge ruled Friday, striking down a policy that effectively triggered a moratorium on the state’s death penalty. Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens said state law does not grant the medical board the…

Associated Press New York – The Rev. Frank Wade, a veteran of the brawling theological debates in the Episcopal Church, said the denomination was once filled with people like him: “old white men.” It was the church of the establishment, the spiritual home of more U.S. presidents than any other denomination. Now, the head of…

Associated Press Star City, Russia – Among the things Malaysia’s first astronaut will be worrying about next month: how does an observant Muslim pray toward Mecca while soaring hundreds of miles (kilometers) above the Earth? Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, 35, is one of three people who will blast off aboard a Russian-built Soyuz space craft next…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service Washington – It’s been 50 years since “In God We Trust” first appeared on U.S. paper currency, and those four little words have proven to be the source of big debate in the courts. Michael Newdow, the California atheist known for trying to strip “under God” from the…

By Ron Kampeas The Jewish Telegraphic Agency Washington – In the aftermath of her son Ari’s murder by an Arab gunman on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994, Devorah Halberstam was introduced to a federal judge for the Southern District of New York with a longstanding interest in terrorism-related issues. In the years since, Judge Michael…

Associated Press- September 19, 2007 JERUSALEM – Israel declared the Palestinian-controlled Gaza Strip an “enemy entity” on Wednesday and said it would cut utilities to the territory, complicating the U.S. plan to relaunch peace talks aimed at establishing a separate Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel made the provocative decision hours before…

By Kevin Eckstrom Religion News Service Comedian Kathy Griffin has built her entire D-list career on telling A-list Hollywood celebrities — Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Ryan Seacrest — to “suck it.” So when she told Jesus to “suck it” after winning an Emmy for her reality show, “My Life on the D-List,” it was meant…

By Adelle M. Banks Religion News Service When Bishop Harry Jackson saw melting glaciers and devastated forests on a recent trip to Alaska, he decided that global warming should be a higher priority on his list of key issues for evangelicals. “I thought the globe was warming, but I thought that there was a whole…
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