Many Haitians still homeless more than six months after quake
"Our government is incapable of getting us out of this situation," Nicholas said. "I hope the international community can keep our hope alive, because it's fading."
"Our government is incapable of getting us out of this situation," Nicholas said. "I hope the international community can keep our hope alive, because it's fading."
A federal court in Boston ruled last week that same-sex married couples deserve federal recognition. That case, along with another in California, is likely to move the battle closer to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mercy is the missing factor in our ever-stranger political debates about immigration, health care, joblessness, financial reform and local government budgets. A nation founded on mercy -- as shown in religious tolerance, in a Bill of Rights, in a Civil War fought to end slavery, in an open door to "huddled masses" and in the Marshall Plan -- seems to have decided that mercy is no longer affordable. Or even necessary.
UNITED NATIONS - A long outstanding proposal to recognize the right to water as a basic universal human right is threatening to split the world's rich and poor nations.
An atheist South Park writer investigates the Lord’s Resistance Army and emerges with some unlikely heroes...
Every year for the past decade, more than 200 suspected illegal immigrants have died crossing the U.S.-Mexican border into Arizona. That's roughly half of all such immigrants who die in the U.S., according to the U.S. Border Patrol and a 2009 American Civil Liberties Union study. Anderson's job is to get their bodies - or what is left of them - back to their families.
We live in a new era, marked by an aging and declining Christian right that is increasingly eclipsed by the Tea Party, a nascent but growing chorus of diverse progressive religious voices, and a broadening of political agendas among many people of faith. Maybe it's time to rethink our assumptions about religious Americans and public policy.
Any student of theology can fall in love with the World Cup. And every four years, football fans like me annoy everyone around them by speaking endlessly of the World Cup as the most momentous of religious events.
President Obama’s recent announcement of his intent to nominate the Rev. Dr. Suzan D. Johnson Cook, or Dr. Sujay, as she is known on the “circuit,” as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, was soft news in a busy news week. But despite the lack of attention to what should be a critical diplomatic post, the nomination speaks volumes about the President’s proclivity for flash rather than substance in religious matters.
In a bow to the growing diversity of America's religious landscape, the Claremont School of Theology, a Christian institution with long ties to the Methodist Church, will add clerical training for Muslims and Jews to its curriculum this fall, to become, in a sense, the first truly multi-faith American seminary.