CIA
Missionary pilot Ryan Koher remains in custody in Mozambique, 6 weeks after arrest
By Bob Smietana — December 8, 2022
(RNS) — Government officials arrested the missionary and two South Africans, under suspicion they were supporting insurgents.
With fashion shows and internships, Muslim women calm tensions with police and FBI
By Joseph Hammond — June 25, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The NGO initiative seeks, among many interfaith goals, to empower Muslim women to be a bridge between their community and law-enforcement organizations.
The true story of a Jewish news agency that peddled fake news to undo Hitler
By Menachem Wecker — October 1, 2018
(RNS) — A subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency also reportedly tried, in vain, to work with the FBI to plant anti-Nazi stories, and may have collaborated with the KGB.
Scandals in the Catholic Church: Bad news and good news
By Thomas Reese — September 19, 2017
(RNS) — 'The Vatican is injuring itself by not being more forthcoming in handling accusations of child abuse against one of its diplomats,' writes Tom Reese.
Why Pakistan’s accusations against Ahmadi Muslims are the height of hypocrisy
By Tahir Nasser — December 14, 2016
(RNS) Hypocrisy is a quality universally denounced. It is no different in Islam.
Italy faces fine over CIA abduction of Egyptian cleric
By Rosie Scammell — February 24, 2016
ROME (RNS) Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr had been given political asylum and was living in Milan when he was snatched from a street in February 2003.
Let’s not forget Robert Levinson, still missing after vanishing in Iran (COMMENTARY)
By Jeffrey Salkin — January 20, 2016
(RNS) Some think that the Obama administration deliberately left Robert Levinson behind because he’s Jewish. This is wrong.
Sen. Richard Burr, stop burying the CIA detention and torture report (COMMENTARY)
By Douglas S. Long — February 6, 2015
(RNS) Sen. Richard Burr must stop trying to cover up what has happened and let us get on with the reckoning.
On torture, can we handle the truth? We’d better start trying (COMMENTARY)
By Carmen LaBerge — December 17, 2014
(RNS) Certainly the mind of Christ is not divided on the issue, so why does the church not speak unequivocally with one voice on matters like torture?
People of faith have legitimate questions about use of lethal drones (COMMENTARY)
By George Hunsinger — December 15, 2014
(RNS) The use of lethal drones raises questions of conscience for the religious community. People of faith have a responsibility to shine a bright light on this doubtful means of conducting war.
Ending our nation’s addiction to torture (COMMENTARY)
By Ron Stief — December 10, 2014
(RNS) For many in our country, including people of faith, and certainly for those in the back rooms of the entertainment industry, torture sells as an antidote to fear. But it doesn’t work.
COMMENTARY: CIA torture report ought to disturb all our consciences
By Ron Stief — April 15, 2014
(RNS) We can hope and pray that God forgives us for what our government has done in our name. We can also act to ensure that torture never happens again.
Ancient wisdom for 21st century problems
By A. James Rudin — November 15, 2012
(RNS) Trying to make sense of the 2012 election and the unfolding David Petraeus sex scandal, I consulted the Bible and the “Sayings of the Fathers,” a collection of rabbinic teachings written between 200 B.C. and 200 A.D. The ancient perceptions about politics and ethics are as insightful today as when they were first uttered. By A.James Rudin.
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