The Christian Century

Eleven-year-old Sarai Camacho of Donna, Texas, tears up when she tells why her mother let the babysitter go for her and her younger sister this summer. It's the same reason her father brought the family to Indiana so he could work the melon fields for a season.

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (RNS) It began last week with a single online comment, one critical of a high school display marking Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender History Month.

It soon ballooned into a harangue against homosexuality, a "perverted spirit" and a "sin" that "breeds like cancer."

Andrew Greeley is one of the best-known priests in Amer­ica: a respected and influential sociologist, a best-­selling novelist and an outspoken commentator on public and church issues for some 50 years.

Mormon leaders are surveying members about their readership of key websites and Mormon writers, a move that reflects the faith's growing interest in managing its public image as two Mormon candidates compete for the Republican presidential nomination.

As Egypt approaches the an­niversary of the protest movement that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak, the country still finds itself torn by sectarian violence. On October 9, a demonstration in Cairo protesting an attack against a Coptic church in the Aswan province erupted into the worst violence since Mubarak's ouster in February.

WASHINGTON (RNS) Prompted by civil liberties groups, a taxpayer-supported homeless shelter in the nation's capital will no longer require its clients to attend religious services.