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Associated Press St. George, Utah – A judge on Tuesday refused to acquit a polygamist sect leader charged with sex crimes in the arranged marriage of a 14-year old girl to her older cousin, rejecting the defense’s claims that Utah prosecutors had failed to make their case. The motion by Warren Jeffs’ lawyers came after…

Associated Press Jerusalem – President Shimon Peres said Tuesday that he is hopeful about an upcoming Mideast peace conference and praised the relationship developing between the Israeli prime minister and the Palestinian president. In his first appearance as Israel’s president before foreign reporters, the 84-year-old Nobel Peace laureate blamed Islamic militants for harsh Israeli restrictions…

Associated Press – September 17, 2007 ST. GEORGE, Utah – A young woman who said she was forced to enter an arranged marriage at age 14 testified Monday that she never complained to her mother or sisters that she was being raped. “I never told anyone,” the woman, now 21, said during cross-examination at the…

Associated Press – September 17, 2007 JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia – For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get in the driver’s seat. They plan to petition King Abdullah in the next few days for that…

By Nancy Haught PORTLAND, Ore. — Jean Bucciarelli remembers the Sunday last May when someone urged her congregation to become a sanctuary church — to actively support illegal immigrants who want to stay in this country. “Someone said, `Let’s just do it,”‘ she recalls. Some members of Ainsworth United Church of Christ were ready, but…

Associated Press – September 14, 2007 BERLIN – The German government will allow the makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise as the country’s most famous anti-Hitler plotter to film at the site where the hero was executed. Shooting of “Valkyrie,” which has attracted controversy because Cruise is a prominent Scientologist, began in July. At…

Associated Press – September 14, 2007 VATICAN CITY – The Vatican reiterated Friday that it considers the removal of feeding tubes from people in vegetative states to be an immoral act. The Vatican issued the statement in response to questions from bishops in the United States in July 2005 – just months after the case…

WASHINGTON – Religious freedom has sharply deteriorated in Iraq over the past year because of both the insurgency and violence targeting people of specific faiths, despite the U.S. military buildup intended to improve security, says a State Department report to be released Friday. The Annual Report on International Religious Freedom finds that all worshipers are…

HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS)– Jesus and Moses were sold out, but you could still head to the checkout counter with Mary, Noah, David and a ferocious-looking Samson, packaged with Delilah in hot pink. The world of posable action figures has traditionally belonged to hulking heroes such as Spider-Man and He-Man. But this latest crop — heroes…

(Religion News Service) The years-long strife in the Anglican Communion could reach a breaking point in New Orleans next week (Sept. 20-24) when Episcopal bishops consider a Sept. 30 deadline to change their church or face “consequences.” The Episcopal Church, the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion, was given until the end of the month…
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