The Christian Century

The outrage over a video allegedly showing U.S. marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters provided Americans with a disturbing reminder that war can reduce men to revenge-seeking brutality that defies human norms.

January 24 (ENInews)--In industrialized nations, a birth certificate is taken for granted, even regarded as a bit of tedious bureaucracy. But in the developing world, the existence of such a record can mean the difference between full participation in citizenship, or barely living.

New York, January 20 (ENInews)--Clare J. Chapman, deputy general secretary and general counsel of the National Council of Churches (NCC), on 20 January was named interim general secretary by the council's governing board.

c. 2012 Religion News Service SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (RNS) The last of three white men convicted of torching a black church on the night of President Obama's election was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday (Jan. 18), bringing the highly publicized case to a close.

London, January 18 (ENInews)--Britain's High Court on 18 January ordered anti-corporate protesters evicted from a camp they have occupied for three months outside London's iconic St. Paul's Cathedral.