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Is Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng pro-life?
(RNS) During the dramatic diplomatic negotiations over blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, anti-abortion groups in the U.S. hailed Chen as one of their own. But Chen is now in the U.S., and he may not be as ``pro-life'' as some of his American supporters assumed. By David Gibson.
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Commentary: Profiles in cowardice
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) I hope the signs I am seeing don't add up to this doomsday scenario. I hope wiser and cooler heads prevail. I hope a rising tide of vigilante violence, hateful campaigns and criminalizing the "other'' wake us up. But I am less optimistic than I was. By Tom Ehrich.
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Guest commentary: 20 years after Bosnia, finding meaning after terror
(RNS) Esad Boskailo is a Bosnian Muslim and I am a Jew, but when we decided to write a book together about finding meaning after terror, we were determined to avoid easy answers about suffering and religious language. By Julia Lieblich.
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Pentagon probes training course on Islam
(RNS) The Pentagon is investigating whether military officials ignored complaints from senior officers about a course that was found to have inflammatory and inaccurate content about Islam. By Omar Sacirbey.
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Sidebar: Professionalizing Human Trafficking Activism
(RNS) Human trafficking, with images of child laborers and sex slaves, is ready-made for the kind of sharing and conversation that characterizes social media.
However, the recent popularity and subsequent controversy of Invisible Children’s Kony 2012 video is cited by critics who...
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College activists draw on faith traditions to fight human trafficking
(RNS) For two years of her life, Louise Allison says she looked and felt like trash. She was a straggly-haired teenager sold for sex on Dallas streets. Her traffickers often drugged her and dumped her in a park to await customers.
Allison is one of millions of people who have b...
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Sikhs launch mobile app to report profiling
Sikh civil rights activists will unveil a mobile phone application next week that they say allows air travelers who believe they have been profiled by TSA airport screeners to file complaints directly from their phones. By Omar Sacirbey.
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Obama invokes Holocaust to confront Syria, Iran
WASHINGTON (RNS) In the wake of Holocaust Remembrance Day, President Obama pledged to put actions behind the words ``never again’’ to fight human atrocities across the globe in countries like Syria and Iran. By Adelle M. Banks.
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London mayor axes ads that suggests homosexuality can be cured
LONDON (RNS) London's mayor has axed an ad campaign spearheaded by two conservative Christian groups because their ads suggest homosexuality is a disease that can be cured through prayer. By Al Webb.
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Poll shows Christianity good for the poor, bad for sex
(RNS) Americans believe Christianity is a force for good on poverty and even women's rights, but has a negative impact on sexuality and America's image abroad, according to a new poll. By Annalisa Musarra. 250 words.
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