Decision in torture case upsets churches
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Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.
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Parishioners ended their brief vigil at a Roman Catholic parish in Natick yesterday after police threatened to arrest anyone who refused to leave, a move critics say represents a bolder stance by church officials against sit-ins.
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A woman who claims she was abused in a Catholic children's home loses a bid to sue the religious order which ran it.
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A record-breaking, &#36;100-million clergy sex abuse settlement between the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange and 87 plaintiffs brought some measure of relief to long-suffering families Friday, but legal experts differed over whether the blockbuster deal would help resolve a huge backlog of cases in California.
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South Korea's relief at the release of 19 countrymen held hostage by the Taliban gave way Friday to anger at the victims themselves, members of a Christian church who are being criticized for ignoring warnings against travel to Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON: The International Committee of the Red Cross has found prisoner abuse that amounted to &quot;a form of torture&quot; at a US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The New York Times newspaper said yesterday.
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A federal judge has reduced by more than half the amount of damages that a fundamentalist Kansas church must pay to the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq.
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Decisions about interrogation videotapes were prompted by fear about what the public might think, officials say.
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The Roman Catholic Church in California has reached a deal with nearly one hundred people who say they were abused by priests and other church employees.
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Human rights experts call them "prisoners of conscience." Hundreds of them around the world are forced to live in deplorable conditions in jail cells and prison camps.
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Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales rejected as false and misleading a BBC documentary about what it said was a cover-up of child sexual abuse under a system enforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his previous job.
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A major U.S. association of evangelical Christians has condemned torture by the U.S. military and reaffirmed its commitment to environmental activism, positions that highlight broader splits in a movement associated with conservative causes.
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The U.S. Supreme Court said on  Tuesday it would decide the constitutionality of a 2000 federal  law protecting the religious rights of prisoners.
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A court's refusal to legalize Lina Joy's conversion to Christianity from Islam highlights a growing clash between religious and secular forces
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The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has issued a report that sharply criticizes federal immigration authorities for rounding up asylum-seekers at the border, detaining them for months in prisonlike facilities and quickly dispatching them back to the countries they fled.
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The compromise reached on the interrogations and trials of terrorism suspects is a series of interlocking paradoxes, according to legal experts.
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An Illinois man who rights groups  say was tortured and wrongly imprisoned for murder 12 years ago  has lost a bid to have his case heard by an international  court.