The Christian Century

WASHINGTON (RNS) How does a modern filmmaker with qualms about religion make a movie about the power of an ancient Christian pilgrimage?

That's the dilemma that actor/director Emilio Estevez faced when making `The Way,' a new film that opens Friday (Oct. 7) starring his own father, actor Martin Sheen.

Geneva, October 6 (ENInews)--An organization supported by Mennonites has made a significant contribution to the Lutheran church's work at refugee camps serving the Horn of Africa, a gesture that both groups said is a practical expression of a reconciliation that was celebrated last year.

(RNS) Radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki may be dead, but the power of the Internet means he won't soon be forgotten. And that, experts say, could make him just as dangerous dead as he was alive.

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (RNS) The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, the driving force behind the Birmingham integration efforts that energized the national civil rights movement, died Wednesday (Oct. 5) at age 89.

Shuttlesworth said he never feared death, and repeatedly put himself on the line during his struggle against Jim Crow segregation in the 1950s and early 1960s.

ROME (RNS) The Jews of old wandered the wilderness for 40 years before entering the Promised Land. For the exiled Jews of Libya, it's already been 44.

The struggle to reopen a synagogue in Libya, 44 years after the forced departure of the country's last Jews, is emerging as a high-profile test of the new Libyan government's commitment to freedom in the post-Moammar Gadhafi era.

WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday (Oct. 5) on religious exemptions to employment law, and advocates for greater church autonomy say several justices seemed to be on their side.

(RNS) For much of his 92 years, Billy Graham has had one main title: evangelist.

But in a new memoir set in the twilight of his remarkable life, Graham reveals a lesser-known side of himself: a grieving and ailing widower who has difficulty getting up from a chair or putting on his shoes.