RNS Opening Budget — Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Religion News Service

May 12, 2021 at 11:11 a.m. ET

NEWS BRIEF
RNS-Cheney-Faith: Liz Cheney, ousted from party leadership, invokes the pope and the ‘power of faith’
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney invoked faith and the pope this week as her fellow Republicans removed her from party leadership, appealing to the power of “faith and freedom” while defending her condemnation of former President Donald Trump’s widely discredited claims the 2020 election was stolen. By Jack Jenkins. 571 words. (category: a)

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RNS-OC-Eid: Muslims and Catholics in Orange County unite for Eid-al-Fitr prayers
(RNS) — In the spirit of interfaith solidarity, clergy at St. Philips Benizi, a Catholic church, is offering its large campus to host Eid prayers for the Islamic Center of Fullerton, a growing Vietnamese Muslim congregation in Orange County that operates out of a small office space. To local Islamic leaders, this marks a historic Eid, to be able to pray amid a pandemic “in the vicinity of our Christian brothers and sisters. By Alejandra Molina. 625 words. (category: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-Ramadan-Drummers: Meet Kashmir’s ‘Midnight Drummers,’ keeping alive an age-old Ramadan tradition
SRINAGAR, Kashmir (RNS) —Locally known as Sahar Khawan, the traditional Ramadan drummers like Sheikh walk miles in the pre-dawn hours of Ramadan mornings, crisscrossing the inner lanes and bylanes and going past houses while beating their drums to wake up the inhabitants. They beat their drums and announce Sehri time for observing Muslims. By Majid Maqbool. 1,363 words. (category: i)

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