Ramapo, NY - After some heated debate with police union members, town officials last night gave a second officer Friday nights and Saturdays off to accommodate his religious practices. Officer Ernst Tenemille, a practicing Seventh-day Adventist, wanted the same working schedule the police and town administrations gave rookie Officer Baile Glauber in June, shortly after she began her...

Washington, DC - Under legislation just introduced in Congress, residents of condominiums and co-ops would be guaranteed the right to post religious displays, such as the mezuzahs installed by observant Jews, outside apartment doors. The bill, formally proposed on by Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, would effectively overturn a federal appeals court's ruling in July that a condominium board in...

Frankfurt, Germany - Authorities arrested two men suspected of supporting the Islamic Jihad Union, a Sunni Muslim group. The union has ties to a local network that prosecutors say planned to carry out attacks on U.S. facilities in German cities. The two 27-year-old men -- a German of Afghan origin identified as Omid S. and a Turkish national called Huseyin O -- were taken into custody in the...