Increasing Jesus
News Bites
Rose Marie Berger, Jeannie Choi 3-01-2009
Like many U.S. municipalities, Alexandria, Virginia, is facing financial cuts. But in an unusual move, city officials hired ethicist Michael A.
Joey Ager 3-01-2009
Eugenia Bonetti, a Catholic sister in Rome, is tackling a tough social evil: human trafficking.
Rose Marie Berger, Jeannie Choi 3-01-2009
In the wake of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, tens of millions of Americans have suffered substantial financial losses, with many losing their savings, homes, and jobs.
Rose Marie Berger, Jeannie Choi 2-01-2009
“Thy word is a [USB flash drive] unto my feet” is the good news that the folks over at The Amazing Bible Cross are singing.
Rose Marie Berger, Jeannie Choi 2-01-2009
In October, the families of crime victims and the families of perpetrators came together for a common cause: Abolish the death penalty in Montana.
Rose Marie Berger, Jeannie Choi 2-01-2009
More than 300 religious and political leaders met in New York in September to break bread with an unlikely dinner guest: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Rose Marie Berger, Jeannie Choi 2-01-2009
In November, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano reported that John Lennon is officially forgiven for his 1966 quip that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus,&rdquo
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
In September, hundreds of churches nationwide joined in Poverty Sunday, part of Sojourners’ Vote Out Poverty campaign, to preach justice for the poor from the pulpit.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
What with the destruction of the ozone layer, God’s people need some serious eye protection.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
In Brookville, Pennsylvania, a dispute over laws has shaken the otherwise quiet community.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
Actor Paul Newman, who died in September, founded the only global forum of business CEOs focused on increasing corporate philanthropy.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 1-01-2009
A 2008 study commissioned by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good found that social policies that increase economic support to women in the U.S.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
Move over Guitar Hero, Guitar Praise is the new toy for the Christian heavy metal and power-rock set.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
Get Fair, a United Kingdom-based coalition of religious and secular groups that launched in September, seeks to pressure politicians to end poverty in the U.K. by 2020. The alliance of more than 50 charities and faith-based institutions—including Oxfam, Islamic Aid, Iona Community, Caritas Social Action, and the Baptist Union of Great Britain, plus several denominations—cites survey data as evidence that politicians must do more to dramatically reduce domestic poverty.
Rose Marie Berger, Amy Spaulding 12-01-2008
Northern Iraq is part of the contested homeland of ethnic Kurds—and until recently a safe haven for those escaping Baghdad’s violence, especially Chaldean Christians.