Aug 06 Watch Background: First Openly Gay Bishop Episcopal leaders voted last night to make Gene Robinson the first openly gay bishop of their church. Continue watching
Aug 05 Episcopal Church Approves First Gay Bishop The Episcopal Church approved its first openly gay bishop on Tuesday, a day after allegations of sexual misconduct threatened to derail the ordination of New Hampshire Rev. Gene Robinson. Continue reading
Aug 05 Watch A Church's Choice: First Openly Gay Bishop Leaders of the Episcopal Church rescheduled a vote on their first openly gay bishop. Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television reports on the continuing debate. Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch A Church's Choice: First Openly Gay Bishop Leaders of the U.S. Episcopal Church delayed a vote Monday to ordain their first openly gay bishop. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the controversy at the Episcopal convention. Continue watching
Jul 16 Watch Religious Properties: Federal Money for Historic Religious Buildings Ray Suarez reports on a church-state controversy over federal money being authorized to restore historic religious buildings. Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch Troubled Church Following Thursday's Annual Conference of American Bishops, Ray Suarez speaks with Catholic bishops and victims' rights advocates about Church efforts to remedy the ongoing sex abuse crisis. Continue watching
Apr 22 Hundreds of Thousands Make Shiite Pilgrimage to Karbala Exercising their new-found religious freedom, hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to the Holy City of Karbala in Iraq on Tuesday, in a pilgrimage long banned by Saddam Hussein's regime. Continue reading
Apr 22 Watch Religion and Politics in Iraq Tuesday marked the first day that Shiite Muslims journeyed to Karbala in a pilgrimage banned for decades during Saddam Hussein's rule. Experts assess the role that religion and politics will play in the new Iraq. Continue watching
Apr 08 The Boston Globe Wins Pulitzer Prize The Boston Globe on Monday received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism for exposing the sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests that led to changes within the Roman Catholic Church. Continue reading
Apr 07 Supreme Court Upholds Cross Burning Ban By Admin, PBS News Hour The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday to uphold a state law banning cross burning carried out with the intent to intimidate, ruling that the act is an instrument of terror and not a form of expression protected by the First… Continue reading