Minneapolis
With Muslim members away for Eid, Minneapolis City Council kills rent control measure
By Associated Press — June 30, 2023
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Wednesday meeting was scheduled more than a year ago to accommodate Eid, which at the time had been predicted to fall on Thursday, Minnesota Public Radio reported. But the date is subject to change depending on lunar observations.
Minneapolis OKs dawn Muslim prayer call, 1st for big US city
By Associated Press — April 17, 2023
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) — The Minneapolis City Council unanimously agreed Thursday to amend the city's noise ordinance, which had prevented dawn and late evening calls at certain times of the year due to noise restrictions,
Queen lauds Minnesota church’s century of Norwegian worship
By Giovanna Dell'orto — October 17, 2022
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The congregation has worshipped in Norwegian for all 100 years that it has existed.
Bystanders in a digital age: The heroes of the Derek Chauvin trial
By Joshua Hammerman — April 20, 2021
(RNS) — Idleness is, in many ways, no longer an option now that most onlookers carry in their pockets small, handheld instant-justice machines that can make star witnesses out of 9-year-olds.
The difference between heroes and martyrs
By Russell P. Johnson — October 8, 2020
(Sightings) — When we memorialize victims of police violence, their past actions are irrelevant.
In Minneapolis, a Somali-owned mental health clinic seeks to heal its community
By Aysha Khan — June 17, 2020
(RNS) — Healing Path Wellness Services in South Minneapolis burned down during protests. But the Somali community the mental health clinic serves needs it more than ever.
In LA, a rally highlights a divide between clergy on how to bring about police reform
By Alejandra Molina — June 3, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The faith-based rally highlighted the different ways clergy and religious leaders are dealing with law enforcement as they seek to end racist policies and police brutality toward black people.
A call to conscience for white Christian women
By Jennifer Butler — June 1, 2020
(RNS) — As protests raged this weekend, I saw many women of color choke on tear gas, but I have to squint to see women who look like me in the crowds.
Rev. Barber: ‘Systemic racism is choking the life out of American democracy’
By Yonat Shimron — May 31, 2020
(RNS) — In a Pentecost Sunday address, he referred to the protests wracking the country as ‘the inevitable reflex of a people who cannot breathe because their life is being systematically snuffed out.’
Kneeling to venerate hate: The meaning of a police killing in Minnesota
By Cheryl Townsend Gilkes — May 27, 2020
(RNS) — When we see a white police officer kneeling on a black body, we are witnessing an act of worship honoring the demons of racism.
Minnesota clergy, ICE critics want bishop name off building
By Steve Karnowski — October 30, 2019
(AP) — The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, which houses the Minneapolis-area offices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, was named for an Episcopal leader who defended Native Americans.
Faith groups, nonprofits team up to help homeless around Super Bowl
By Adelle M. Banks — February 2, 2018
(RNS) — Staying put would have been a logistical nightmare for the 50 to 60 homeless women and men who typically sleep in a church shelter across the street from the stadium.
Reformation exhibit highlights art as teaching tool and propaganda
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 1, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) 'Martin Luther: Art and the Reformation' at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is the largest of three U.S. exhibits celebrating the upcoming 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
Minn. teen finds a religious mandate for gun control after father’s death
By Beth Kissileff — February 14, 2013
(RNS) Each morning, Sami Rahamin attends synagogue to recite the Kaddish memorial prayer for his father, who was shot dead by a disgruntled former employee. Then he turns his attention to a faith-based crusade: gun control.
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