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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
Security forces killed at least seven people in Syria as they emerged from a mosque after prayers marking the end of Ramadan, according to activists.
The sculptor of the controversial statue of the late Pope John Paul II that now stands at Rome's main train station says he's open to m...
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`King Arthur’ fights the law, and the law wins
LONDON (RNS) A self-styled druid who likens himself to a king in ancient Britain has lost his bid to rebury a set of prehistoric human remains at a sacred pagan burial site.
John Timothy Rothwell -- who changed his name to King Arthur Pendragon in court documents -- lost his court bat...
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Monday’s Religion News Roundup
Pope Benedict XVI concluded a "glitch-marred" World Youth Day in Spain on Sunday, after searing heat and thunderstorms played havoc with the weekend's schedule, according to the AP. The next WYD will be in Brazil in 2013, the Vatican announced.
Church attendance among white Americans...
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Ramadan treat dates back to Prophet Muhammad
(RNS) Brown, sticky, and wrinkly, dates seem a sad or unremarkable fruit. But every Ramadan, the Islamic holy month that began on Monday (Aug. 1), dates take on tremendous religious significance for the faith's 1.6 billion followers.
Throughout the world, Muslims will break Ramadan's...
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Raelians seek to reclaim swastika
(RNS) A UFO sect that believes human beings were created by extraterrestrials will host World Swastika Rehabilitation Day on Sunday (June 26) in an attempt to reclaim the swastika from the Nazis as an emblem of peace.
Raelians, whose symbol consists of a swastika that intertwines with...
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Black churches push prostate cancer awareness
(RNS) Thomas A. Farrington isn't looking for cards or a tie this Father's Day. What he really wants, he says, is for other black men sitting in the pews with a prostate cancer diagnosis to know they're not alone.
Two years ago, Farrington, the founder of the Boston-based Prostate Heal...
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Lawyers: Faith-healing parents sought care for daughter
OREGON CITY, Ore. (RNS) Two faith-healing parents pleaded with child-welfare workers for permission to take their infant daughter to a doctor and keep her out of state custody, defense attorneys said Tuesday (May 31).
The Oregon Department of Human Services refused the request and, on...
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Q&A with Elizabeth Smart
(RNS) For 18 months, she wasn't a famous kidnapping survivor, nor the star witness in a headline-grabbing trial, nor the face of nonprofit group designed to help young abuse victims.
She was simply Sister Smart.
Elizabeth Smart, now 23, talked about her Mormon mission -- an overseas a...
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Hawking says heaven is for `people afraid of the dark’
LONDON (RNS) Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most eminent scientists, says the concept of heaven is "a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
In an interview with London's Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old Cambridge University cosmologist said that as a victim of...
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Pope to speak to international space station
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI will speak via satellite with astronauts on the International Space Station on Saturday (May 21), the first time a pope has conversed with astronauts in space.
The Rev. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See Press Office, told reporters on Tue...
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