The Slingshot: Muslim mental health; Anti-Semitism in Germany; Impeachment fast

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Women participate in a mental health first aid training program for imams and community members sponsored by the Muslim Wellness Foundation in Atlanta in 2014. Photo by Rahmeek Rasul


Need to know: Wednesday, January 10, 2018

How US mosques are dealing with Muslims’ mental health issues

A new referral initiative started in a Raleigh, N.C. mosque in September is part of a growing menu of social services nationwide aimed at addressing the needs of American Muslims, which have never been stronger.

Germany worried about ‘imported anti-Semitism’ after immigrant protests

The country is rethinking its fight against anti-Semitism after Muslim immigrants burned an Israeli flag at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and chanted anti-Semitic slogans.

Trump impeachment must be prevented through day of fasting and prayer, evangelist says

James Dobson told the leaders of Intercessors for America — a Christian group that believes in fasting to alter world events — that the U.S. “will be in serious trouble” if Trump is forced out of office.

Memphis pastor admits ‘sexual incident’ with high school student 20 years ago

Rev. Andy Savage’s congregation gave him a standing ovation when he admitted to having an underage girl perform oral sex on him when he was a youth minister at a church in Texas. The alleged victim called the congregation’s reaction “disgusting.” (Subscription may be required)

The 2018 procession of the Black Nazarene

Hundreds of thousands of Philippine Catholics took part in the annual procession of an ebony statue of Jesus brought to the Philippines in 1606.

What’s coming for religion in 2018?

We’re taking readers’ predictions, so send us your thoughts. Today is your last day to submit!

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Justices won’t step into Mississippi gay rights legal fight

The Supreme Court declined to weigh in on a state law that lets government workers and private business people cite their religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT people.

Religious architecture awards go to designs that transform

Some of the best work of 2017 reworked existing religious architecture, or created religious spaces out of secular ones.

Is Trump widening a rift between the evangelicals and Mideast Christians?

Many Middle Eastern Christians feel let down by American evangelicals who cheered Trump’s declaration on Jerusalem.

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Is higher education purely secular, or is there room for the religious?

(RNS) — While it would be weird to argue that twenty percent or two percent or 0.002% of writers proves that “religion” is winning a new place in the higher academy, the presence of such might occasion some quieting of complaints that the academy is 100% anti-religious on one hand, or, implausibly, cheering along the pious on the other.

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