A northern Mississippi school district has decided not to host a high school prom after a lesbian student demanded she be able to attend with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo.

In response to the new gay marriage law in Washington, Catholic Charities closed its adoption and foster care programs and cut spousal benefits to future employees—to avoid providing services to homosexual couples. If a church or other religious charity receives government funding, should it follow all government rules, including those against discrimination based on sexual orientation? Or should government exempt such organizations from requirements that violate particular religious beliefs?

Unless new charges are filed against her, the last of 10 Southern Baptist mission volunteers jailed in Haiti on suspicion of child kidnapping will have to be released, according to an expert on Haiti’s legal system.  The Haitian judge overseeing the case involving the mission team composed mostly of members from two Idaho Southern Baptist congregations released the ninth team member, 24-year-old Charisa Coulter, on March 8.

The faith council advising the White House on policy prescriptions for a range of social issues submitted its final report Wednesday. Abortion reduction and religious hiring issues, two of the most contentious issues where faith and government intersect, was left off the table. The next council will be named in late spring/early summer, according to Faith Office Director Joshua Dubois. He said he doesn’t expect the next council to address the same issues this one did.

A pro-life activist arrested during an appearance of Congressman Patrick Kennedy at Brown University will not be prosecuted.

An Anglican Archbishop in Nigeria lamented Sunday’s attack on Christians near the city of Jos and pleaded for an end to the bloodshed between Christians and Muslims. “Some of these communities may never again be recognized in history because generations have been wiped out,” said the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Kwashi, Anglican Archbishop of Josin a statement. “Hundreds of corpses of men, women, children and grandchildren littered the burned houses, roads, bush paths, farm areas and hiding places,” he said.

Producers of the new movie The Chronicles of Narnia series – “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” – were understandably nervous when they invited several prominent Christian groups and C.S. Lewis experts to view clips of the film and go over the script. The reaction was largely positive as producers try to get away from alterations which generated criticism of the second film in the series, “Prince Caspian.”

Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's conservative leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.

Political correctness...or historical accuracy?

Calling all history buffs, amateur detectives and people who just like to snoop: An Irish-American benevolent society is looking for help in tracking down stained-glass windows it donated to churches between 1870 and 1920. The Ancient Order of Hibernians gave the windows to Roman Catholic churches, but that doesn’t mean that’s the only place to look. As buildings were sold, torn down or remodeled, Hibernian windows are turning up in all kinds of places—warehouses, garages and even Protestant churches.

Terrorists armed with grenades attacked the offices of World Vision, a Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six employees and wounding several others.