NEWS BRIEF
RNS-Bishop-Delay: Episcopal Diocese of Chicago postpones consecration of bishop-elect brain bleed
CHICAGO (RNS) — The Episcopal Diocese of Chicago has postponed the consecration and ordination of the Rev. Canon Paula E. Clark, the first Black bishop and the first woman chosen to lead the diocese, after Clark suffered a brain bleed in April. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 430 words. (category: a)
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RNS-India-Covid: Modi silent on Muslim philanthropist’s offer of medical supplies for India
(RNS)— Sufi Muslim philanthropist Faisal Edhi is ready to move his fleet of 50 ambulances and medical supplies to help fight half a million COVID-19 cases and more than 4,000 recorded deaths a day. But requests made a month ago to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to allow entry into the country have been met with silence. By Priyadarshini Sen. 1,070 words (category: i)
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RNS-Pfleger-Reinstated: Episcopal Diocese of Chicago postpones consecration of bishop-elect after she suffers brain bleed
CHICAGO (RNS) — The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago has concluded there is “no reason to suspect” the Rev. Michael Pfleger is guilty of allegations of past sexual abuse. The result of the investigation by an independent review board was announced Monday (May 24) in a letter from Cardinal Blase Cupich to the church Pfleger has led for years, the Faith Community of St. Sabina in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Pfleger, 71, will return to his position as senior pastor of St. Sabina on June 5, according to the letter from the cardinal, who leads the archdiocese. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 600 words. (category: a)
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RNS-Antisemitism-LA: Arrest made in suspected antisemitic attack in L.A. as Jewish community remains on edge
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The man arrested in connection with the suspected antisemitic attack outside a restaurant has been released on bail as Los Angeles’ Jewish community remains on edge after a couple of attacks against Jewish people have been reported in the area. By Alejandra Molina. 570 words. (category: a)
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RNS-Wheaton-Plaque: Wheaton College rewords plaque honoring slain missionaries that labeled Indigenous people as ‘savage’
CHICAGO (RNS) — Wheaton College is rewording a plaque on its campus that referred to Indigenous people as “savage Indians.” The plaque honors missionaries Jim Elliot, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian and Pete Fleming who were killed in 1956 while attempting to share their Christian faith with the Waorani people in Ecuador. By Emily McFarlan Miller. 600 words. (category: a)
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RNS-Bishop-Hong-Kong: Incoming bishop Stephen Chow says he feels the pressure of leading Hong Kong diocese
(RNS) — Jesuit Father Stephen Chow says he feels “the pressure” of being appointed as the new bishop of the deeply divided Diocese of Hong Kong but hopes to promote unity among the competing political and religious interests in the city. By Claire Giangravè. 750 words. (category i)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Patel-Jones-Oped: The path to herd immunity runs through America’s faith communities
(RNS) — A new study conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) in partnership with Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) illuminates a promising path forward: engage religious communities. Residents of many of the most vaccine-hesitant areas in the United States turn out to be remarkably receptive to faith-based interventions. By Eboo Patel and Robert P. Jones. 890 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Shukla-Oped: Our critics’ attempts to silence us are harming all Hindu Americans
(RNS) — The Hindu American Foundation filed a defamation suit against a group of defendants whose attacks are premised on an insidious accusation: that we have dual loyalty. This is the same ugly insinuation that led to the internment of Japanese Americans and exclusion of Catholics and Jews from civic spaces. It now lands at the feet of the oldest, most prominent Hindu American advocacy organization. By Suhag Shukla. 1,150 words. (category: k)
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RNS-Salkin-Oped: Happy 80th birthday, Bob Dylan!
(RNS) — Whether it was “With God on Our Side,” with its evocation of the Nazis, who “in the ovens, six million they fried;” or his prayerful “Father of Night” or “Forever Young,” with its shout-out to Jacob’s “ladder to the stars” — Dylan was always far more Jewish than he let on. Dos pintele yid — that spark of Jewishness — kept bursting into flame. By Jeffrey Salkin. 1,220 words. (category: k)