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NCC leader to step down
(RNS) The National Council of Churches announced on Wednesday (Nov. 9) that General Secretary Michael Kinnamon is resigning due to health reasons.
Kinnamon, 63, told the ecumenical group's governing board that he must "immediately and significantly" reduce his activity, especially the...
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Churches lose fight over Ala. immigration law
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (RNS) A federal judge jolted the national immigration debate on Wednesday (Sept. 28) by approving most parts of Alabama's aggressive immigration law that religious leaders had called the "meanest" in the nation.
In a ruling hailed by many state officials, U.S. Dis...
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Unitarian Universalist head convicted on protest charges
(RNS) The head of the Unitarian Universalist Association has been convicted on misdemeanor charges for participating in a protest rally against Arizona's controversial immigration law.
The Rev. Peter Morales, the first Latino president of the Unitarian Universalist Association, was fo...
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Israeli ambassador praises wartime pope
(RNS) In a conciliatory gesture regarding one of the most sensitive points of Jewish-Catholic relations, Israel's ambassador to the Vatican praised the controversial wartime Pope Pius XII for his "actions to save the Jews" during the Holocaust.
Mordechay Lewy made his remarks Thursday...
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Bishop calls Ala. immigration law nation’s ‘meanest’
(BIRMINGHAM) A new Alabama law that makes it a crime to offer rides to undocumented immigrants is the "meanest" immigration law in the country, according to a United Methodist bishop and respected theologian.
Bishop William Willimon of the North Alabama Conference called the bill, whi...
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Obama rallies Hispanic Christians on immigration
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama assured Hispanic Christians on Thursday (May 12) that he hears their pleas for immigration reform, calling it a "moral imperative" that requires action from the pews and the White House.
"What I can do is sign a law," he told more than 600 people gathe...
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Many genocides to be commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day
CANTERBURY, England (RNS/ENInews) After the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II, the world cried out "never again." But one of Britain's best-known young rabbis, Jonathan Romain, said the phrase has proved tragically wrong.
"Genocide has happened again and again and a...
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The steady drip, drip, drip of WikiLeaks
Britain's Guardian newspaper has released four more WikiLeaks documents from the U.S. embassy to the Vatican, from 2001, 2002 and 2009, all somehow related to Catholic-Jewish tensions over the possible canonization as a saint of Pope Pius XII.
One of the cables, from last October, rep...
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Unitarians move investments over Sudan conflict
(RNS) The Unitarian Universalist Association is moving its retirement plan from Fidelity Investments to TIAA-CREF because of differing views on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
The church's estimated 2,800 retirement accounts -- totaling $173 million in investments -- will be mo...
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Friday morning roundup
First Tinky Winky was made a foot soldier in the culture war over gay rights --- now Dora the Explorer is bloodied and bruised (quite literally) in the tussle over Arizona's get-tough immigration law. Also in the desert, the controversial cross in the Mojave National Preserve that dis...
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