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NEW DELHI (RNS) — Afreen Rehman, a 25-year-old Muslim woman, received a letter from her husband while visiting her parents in Jaipur earlier this year. In it were three words: "talaq, talaq, talaq"– or "divorce" three times in Arabic, thus ending their marriage of two years.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of the world's Orthodox Christian churches have gathered on the Greek island of Crete for a landmark meeting, despite a boycott by the Russian church — the most populous in a religion of some 300 million people — and three other churches. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
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The Southern Baptist Convention, born in 1845 in a split over its support for slavery, has passed a resolution calling for Christians to quit using the Confederate flag. "We call our brothers and sisters in Christ to discontinue the display of the Confederate battle flag as a sign of
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BOSTON – Mary Roque and Dr. Jane Driver have a lot in common. The two friends both work in senior care, Roque as a lawyer specializing in elder law and Driver as an oncologist and geriatrician. Both also share the Roman Catholic faith and last year found themselves bothered by a
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A judge approved a permanent injunction against a North Carolina State University (NCSU) policy in a win for a Christian group whose free speech rights were being infringed upon.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim with no men present has raised alarms among critics who say the accommodation violates the constitutional separation of church and state as well as laws against discrimination by sex. But
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JERUSALEM (AP) — A team of experts has begun a historic renovation at the spot where Christians believe Jesus was buried, overcoming longstanding religious rivalries to carry out the first repairs at the site in over 200 years. The project, which began Monday, will focus on repairing, reinforcing and preserving the
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Judges and prosecutors from around the world pledged Friday to crack down on human trafficking and help victims of modern-day slavery in the latest Vatican initiative to draw attention to the problem and rally resources to fight it. At a Vatican summit of judges, prosecutors and other
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