vaccine
GiveSendGo back online after hack targeting Canadian ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests
By Jack Jenkins — February 15, 2022
(RNS) — The Canadian protesters have begun staging ‘Jericho Marches’ similar to those conducted in the lead-up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Illinois court rules in favor of Catholic nurse who lost job over abortion objections
By Bob Smietana — November 2, 2021
(RNS) — Sandra Rojas, a Catholic nurse, objected when she was moved from pediatrics to a role that included delivering birth control and making abortion referrals.
Bill would remove ‘conscience’ as basis for refusing vaccine
By John O'connor — October 28, 2021
Long considered a shield for physicians whose religious beliefs precluded their performing abortions, the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act has become a pandemic lightning rod.
Student files religious discrimination suit over San Diego schools’ vaccine mandate
By Alejandra Molina — October 26, 2021
(RNS) — A 16-year-old high school student is suing the San Diego Unified School District in federal court, claiming religious discrimination over vaccine mandates that require eligible students to be fully inoculated against COVID-19 by the end of December.
Three Swiss Guards resign following Vatican vaccine mandate
By Claire Giangravé — October 4, 2021
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The vaccine requirement 'is a measure that is aligned with those of other armed forces in the world,' said the media spokesperson for the Swiss Guards.
Study: Religion soothed evangelicals at start of COVID. Politics put them at risk.
By Bob Smietana — September 17, 2021
(RNS) — From the start, religion has divided how Americans respond to COVID.
California Catholic bishop tells priests to decline vaccine exemption requests
By Alejandra Molina — August 13, 2021
(RNS) — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy said Catholic social teaching doesn't justify a religious exemption to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.
With pandemic in mind, pared-back hajj in Mecca for 2nd year
By Aya Batrawy and Amr Nabil — July 19, 2021
MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Tens of thousands of vaccinated Muslim pilgrims circled Islam's holiest site in Mecca on Sunday.
In many COVID hot spots, a pattern: High concentrations of white evangelicals
By Jack Jenkins — July 15, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It’s clear that the pattern is more white evangelical Protestants equals lower vaccination rates,’ said Natalie Jackson, research director at the Public Religion Research Institute.
Francis Collins urges evangelicals: ‘Love your neighbor,’ get COVID-19 vaccine
By Adelle M. Banks — April 27, 2021
(RNS) — ‘It was an answer, even beyond what I had almost dared to pray for,’ the National Institutes of Health director said of vaccine efficacy.
For evangelical leader Jamie Aten, advocating for vaccines led to a death threat
By Bob Smietana — April 27, 2021
(RNS) — Aten, who teaches at an evangelical college, has received swarms of angry anti-vaxxer emails — including one saying his work was ‘punishable by death.’
Johnson & Johnson vaccine creates a week of confusion for Catholics
By Jack Jenkins — March 5, 2021
(RNS) — An attempt to clear up confusion about the moral acceptability of the vaccine only created further uncertainty.
US bishops discourage Catholics from getting Johnson & Johnson vaccine if given a choice
By Jack Jenkins — March 2, 2021
(RNS) — 'If one has the ability to choose a vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccines should be chosen over Johnson & Johnson’s,' the statement read.
With vaccinations, an army of gray volunteers is coming
By Thomas Reese — January 25, 2021
(RNS) — With older people being vaccinated first, they will be free to volunteer for meaningful work while younger people are still at risk.
Faith and the COVID-19 vaccine: ‘Muslims were among the first to believe in vaccines’
By Julie Schonfeld — January 21, 2021
(RNS) — A conversation with Imam Mohamed Magid on the safety and theological underpinning of taking the vaccine.
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