Puerto Rico

Still recovering from Maria, Puerto Rico’s Catholics assess Fiona’s blow to church buildings

By Kathryn Post — September 22, 2022
(RNS) — Just as Catholics made progress on repairing a few dozen of the 1,000 Catholic buildings damaged by Maria, Hurricane Fiona swept in.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this is your history

By Jeffrey Salkin — December 13, 2018
What the youngest member of Congress could learn about her Jewish ancestors. And what we all need to know about them, as well.

Back from Puerto Rico, the Rev. Gabriel Salguero shares ways to help

By Yonat Shimron — October 5, 2017
(RNS) — The president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition traveled to Puerto Rico last week to deliver water and generators to the island, which was badly battered by Hurricane Maria.

On Eid 2017, a peek into the lives of Puerto Rican Muslims

By Ken Chitwood — June 26, 2017
(The Conversation) Who are the Puerto Rican Muslims and what are their struggles?

Puerto Rico gay marriage ruling sets up a potential federal conflict

By Richard Wolf — October 23, 2014
(RNS) "Ultimately the very survival of the political order depends upon the procreative potential embodied in traditional marriage," U.S. District Judge Juan Perez-Gimenez ruled. "Those are the well-tested, well-proven principles on which we have relied for centuries."

Christian Churches Together chooses new executive director

By Adelle M. Banks — June 29, 2012

(RNS) Christian Churches Together in the USA, a 10-year-old ecumenical network, has chosen a Presbyterian as their new executive director. By Adelle M. Banks.

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