RNS Updated Budget — Wednesday, March 4, 2020

The pastor of one the nation’s largest churches is in quarantine at home after being exposed to the coronavirus at an overseas conference. By Bob Smietana. 790 words. (categoy: a) NEWS STORY RNS-LaLuz-Reddit: How Reddit is helping ex-La Luz […]

NEWS STORY
RNS-Megachurch-Coronavirus:  Craig Groeschel, Life.Church pastor, quarantined at home after coronavirus exposure
NASHVLLE (RNS) — The pastor of one the nation’s largest churches is in quarantine at home after being exposed to the coronavirus at an overseas conference. By Bob Smietana. 790 words. (categoy: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-LaLuz-Reddit: How Reddit is helping ex-La Luz del Mundo members cope with life after the church
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Former La Luz del Mundo members are finding community on a message board — known as a subreddit — at Reddit.com. Known as EXLLDM, the message board has about 1,400 subscribers and has been active since about 2017. Members are anonymous and have usernames like FreeAndLovingLife, secular_mind and free4romthatcult. EXLLDM defines itself as a place for “exit support and comfort” that encourages civil discussion, personal experiences and “occasional laughs.” By Alejandra Molina. 1,603 words. (category: a)

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RNS-Albany-India: Albany becomes third city to condemn India’s citizenship laws
(RNS) — As anti-Muslim violence continues unabated in India, the city of Albany has passed the country’s third resolution denouncing the far-right Indian government’s changes to citizenship laws that have drawn international condemnations alleging anti-Muslim bias. By Aysha Khan. 600 words. (category: a)


NEWS STORY
RNS-Day-Documentary: Dorothy Day defied definition. Now the would-be saint is the subject of a new film.
(RNS) — Documentary filmmaker Martin Doblmeier, known for his Public Television specials on Dietrich Bonhoffer, Reinhold Niebuhr and Howard Thurman, decided Catholic social activist Dorothy Day would be a great subject for his new documentary which begins airing on PBS stations on Friday (March 6). A Q&A with Doblmeier. By Yonat Shimron. 1,500 words. (category: a)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Silk-Oped: Pope Francis in the jungle
(RNS) — If “Querida Amazonia” unhesitatingly defends the region from the capitalism of our day, it is less sure-footed in dealing with the church itself. Where a majority of the region’s bishops called for greater ecclesial roles for women and the ordination of married men, Francis delivered dusty traditionalism on women’s role in the church and responds only in the most oblique terms to the call for married priests. By Mark Silk. 700 words. (category: k)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Aten-Oped: How we respond to epidemics like coronavirus may depend on how we practice our faith
(RNS) — Research into how people of faith respond to disasters suggests that faith leaders’ can best prepare for the spread of coronavirus by calling on their flocks to practice “intrinsic religion.” By Jamie Aten. 800 words. (category: k)