Category: Religion

Baltimore Sun
All have found their way to the Roman Catholic Church as members of the largest class of converts the Archdiocese of Baltimore has seen this decade. Nine hundred and eighty-four local adults are preparing to become Catholics during …

Baltimore Sun
Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden will celebrate Mass in honor of St. Patrick at 10 a.m. tomorrow at St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Fells Point. St. Patrick’s, at Broadway and Bank Street, is one of the oldest …

Baltimore Sun
A Muslim woman was asked to leave her place in line at a credit union in Southern Maryland and be served in a back room because the head scarf she wore for religious reasons violated the institution’s “no …

AP
Police said a 58-year-old man stabbed his teenage son after he refused to take off his hat at church earlier in the day. The father and his 19-year-old son got into an argument on Sunday afternoon. That’s when police …

Governor Martin O’Malley has cited his Roman Catholic religious beliefs in the past as part of the reason he opposes the death penalty. He’s marching with clergy today in Annapolis to oppose it further.

If O’Malley signs recent …

WBAL.com
he first openly gay bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church led a prayer in the Maryland Senate Monday night in which he asked God to bless the legislators with “anger at discrimination in all its forms.”

The Rev. V. Gene …

Baltimore Sun
A memorial tribute to victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, will be held at the Park Heights Jewish Community Center at 7:30 p.m. today. Gov. Martin O’Malley, Marc Terrill of The Associated: Jewish Community Federation and …

Examiner
A controversial pro-abortion rights bill, co-sponsored by both of Maryland’s U.S. senators and tagged by President-elect Barack Obama as “the first thing I would do” as president, has the nation’s Catholic bishops mulling the shuttering of the Catholic health …

Paul Foer at Annapolis Capital Punishment:
We are friends with local Chabad Rabbi Nochum Light and his wife Hindi and because Rabbi Light was a schoolmate and friend of the murdered Rabbi Holzberg and his wife,the horror there has a …

Examiner
Montgomery County police are investigating why the Islamic Center of Maryland in Gaithersburg was hit with 30 paintball blasts over the weekend.

Police say a witness told a patrol officer it occurred early Saturday morning.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a …