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NEWS STORY
RNS-ExMuslims-India: Ex-Muslims in India find solidarity online as they face social and familial rejection
MUMBAI (RNS) — At least 138 million Muslims live in India, constitutionally a secular country, but one where outspoken atheists and rationalists have often been attacked by right-wing groups. ‘We needed a place to belong, a safe space to be ourselves,’ said one. Many ex-Muslims in India are driven by a particular need to articulate their disentanglement from their religion and not simply turn atheist. By Bhavya Dore. 1,190 words. (category: i)
NEWS STORY
RNS-RussellMoore-COVID19: Russell Moore: Sickness, death from COVID-19 likely reducing some vaccine hesitancy
(RNS) — Russell Moore, Southern Baptist ethicist-turned public theologian, said people being sickened and dying from COVID-19 could be changing some minds about vaccine hesitancy. In a Washington Post Live discussion, he said misinformation is driving much of the hesitancy among evangelicals who have not accessed the vaccines. By Adelle M. Banks. 600 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Maine-Letter: Maine faith leaders sign letter calling on Sen. Susan Collins to back For the People Act
PORTLAND, Maine (RNS) — More than 125 religious leaders and people of faith in Maine have signed a letter calling on lawmakers to support the For the People Act, adding to substantial religious pressure on elected officials to pass the sweeping federal voting rights bill. By Jack Jenkins. 788 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Parra-Vatican: Pope Francis gets death threat as he grapples with Vatican financial scandals
(RNS) – Italian police officers are currently investigating the latest bizarre turn of events in the Vatican financial scandals, after they discovered a letter on Monday containing a threat aimed at none other than Pope Francis. By Claire Giangravè. 800 words. (category i)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Singh-Oped: Giannis Antetokounmpo: NBA stardom without the ego
(RNS) — In a game (and a society) obsessed with branding and followers, there’s something refreshing about someone who resists the temptations of our world and remains focused on what really matters: family, joy and living in the present. By Simran Jeet Singh. 700 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Reese-Oped: The climate apocalypse is real, and it is coming
(RNS) — The report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released Aug. 9, makes clear that global warming is no longer a theory, it is a proven fact. Science is telling us what has happened and what will happen. Science also is telling us how to stop it from getting worse. As Pope Francis has taught us in his 2015 encyclical, “Laudato Si’”, this will take both individual and systemic conversion because it will require sacrifice on an enormous scale. By Thomas Reese. 645 words. (category: k)