by Maggie Hyde | Sep 14, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
At the All Dulles Area Muslim Society, breaking the daylong fast is a community gathering, where converts to Islam experience the fellowship of prayer and meals. Maggie Hyde/MNS WASHINGTON — After sunset on a warm summer’s evening in Sterling, Va., hungry...
by Maggie Hyde | Aug 28, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
Photo Courtesy of Alliance Defense Fund Julia Ward, a counseling graduate student at Eastern Michigan University is appealing a Federal ruling that favored the school’s dismissal of her for her views on homosexuality. WASHINGTON – It’s a question being raised by...
by Maggie Hyde | Aug 25, 2010 | Immigration
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Interest groups are split on the meaning of a leaked immigration policy memo Brendan Wilkerson/MNS WASHINGTON — After a year of little to no movement on immigration, some groups say they fear the president is looking at...
by Maggie Hyde | Aug 19, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
Philip Tom occupies a unique role at the nexus of religious organizations and labor policy, putting groups varying from worker justice leagues to individual houses of worship in touch with one another, and helping them access appropriate government resources....
by Maggie Hyde | Aug 19, 2010 | Faith, Ethics + Spirituality
Maggie Hyde/MNS Prison rape survivor Marilyn Shirley tells her story at a press conference Tuesday where she and religious leaders asked the government to address rape in prisons. WASHINGTON — Incarcerated for drug charges in 1998, Marilyn Shirley walked out of...
