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Franklin Graham calls IRS probe of ministry finances ‘un-American’

Evangelist Franklin Graham blasted the Internal Revenue Service probe of conservative nonprofit groups as “un-American,” saying both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the relief group Samaritan’s Purse were audited by the IRS.
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Anti-Shariah movement changes tactics and gains success

| May 16, 2013

After losing steam in recent years, the anti-Shariah movement has scored a string of victories by, ironically, leaving the words “Shariah” and “Islam” out of bills that restrict state courts from considering foreign law.
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BRIEF: Port City Sunday school class to focus on gun violence in America

| May 16, 2013

As part of a series of June adult Sunday School offerings, Winter Park Presbyterian Church will offer a five-week study focused on gun violence in America, and will explore how  the church can discern its role in this issue.
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Students’ right to pray and organize bills headed to N.C. Senate for a vote

| May 9, 2013

The Senate will soon vote on two bills related to both students' right to organize and govern religious organizations at colleges and universities statewide and students' right to pray in nondisruptive ways at school. 
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‘Nuns on the Bus’ will hit the road for immigration reform

| May 2, 2013

“The ‘Nuns on the Bus’ is going on the road again!” Sister Simone Campbell, head of the social justice lobby Network, told an enthusiastic gathering of faith leaders and charity activists at a Manhattan awards ceremony Wednesday (May 1). “This time we’re going out for common-sense immigration reform,” she said to rousing applause.
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NC NAACP leader and ministers released after state capitol pray-in protest arrests

| May 1, 2013

The 17 protestors were accused of trespassing among other charges while part of a pray-in protest against the voter ID bill that passed the N.C. House last week and goes on to the Senate. They were released early Tuesday morning (April 30).
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ANALYSIS: Have the bishops found their ‘attractive, articulate, intelligent’ spokeswoman?

| Apr 30, 2013

(RNS) A former adviser to Sarah Palin and an attorney with a long record of advocating conservative causes, will become the first spokeswoman for the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the USCCB announced Monday (April 29).
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BRIEF: N.C. governor sets this week as “Week of Prayer for North Carolina”

| Apr 30, 2013

A resolution passed unanimously by the N.C. House and Senate - House Joint Resolution 599 - also calls North Carolina to prayer.
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At makeshift National Mall graveyard, clergy demand gun control

| Apr 12, 2013

Standing in front of 3,300 grave markers — representing the number of people who have died in gun violence since December’s massacre in Newtown, Conn. — more than 25 ministers, rabbis and other religious leaders decried as “idolatrous” a society that values guns more than human life.
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Out of prison, ex-Congressman Mark Siljander discusses Jesus, redemption and relations between Christians and Muslims

| Apr 10, 2013

After serving a nine-month prison sentence, former Michigan Congressman Mark Siljander aims to continue his work bridging the divide between Christians and Muslims here and worldwide. He'll be a speaker at the upcoming "God of Abraham: God of Peace? God of War?" conference at UNCW April 11-13.
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Guns as idols - a new front in the war over gun rights

| Apr 8, 2013

Longtime anti-gun violence lobbyist the Rev. James E. Atwood believes that the fight over gun rights in this country could be simplified for Christians to a biblical debate. His argument: for some, gun ownership has become their idol. And God says idolatry is wrong in the 10 Commandments.
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