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RNS Updated Budget — Wednesday, September 29, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 29, 2021
NEWS STORY NBCUSA-President: National Baptist Convention USA president questions ‘hypocritical’ mandate views (RNS) — The president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, closed the annual session of his historically Black denomination this week with critiques of cultural conflicts and Christian nationalism. The Rev. Jerry Young’s address pointed to recent political turmoil in America, including a […]
RNS Opening Budget — Wednesday, September 29, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 29, 2021
NEWS BRIEF RNS-Dilwar-Syed: Vote Over Muslim Nominated By Biden Stalls in Congress (RNS) — The confirmation of the man who is the highest-ranking Muslim bureaucrat in the Biden administration continues to stall due to partisan politics. Dilwar Syed, is the Biden administration’s pick to be the deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Syed’s confirmation hearing […]
RNS Updated Budget — Tuesday, September 28, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 28, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Haitians-Border: Faith groups continue to decry Biden administration’s treatment of Haitian migrants (RNS) — Several U.S. faith groups and religious leaders that have lambasted the U.S. government’s treatment of Haitian migrants in recent days, maintaining pressure on an administration that already faced fierce pushback earlier this month after images emerged of mounted border […]
RNS Opening Budget — Tuesday, September 28, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 28, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Vatican-Booster: Vatican weighs ethics of booster shots (RNS) – While Catholic US President Joe Biden received his booster shot of the covid 19 vaccine, experts at the Vatican on Tuesday considered the ethics of booster shots distribution in wealthy countries while many in other parts of the world have yet to receive the […]
RNS Updated Budget — Monday, September 27, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 27, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Czech-Torah: This Simchat Torah, one ancient Czech scroll has returned to its country of origin (RNS) — Simchat Torah, which falls Tuesday (Sept. 28), celebrates the completion of a cycle of liturgical readings and a return to the Book of Genesis. But in Prague on Monday, the holiday marked a different kind of […]
RNS Opening Budget — Monday, September 27, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 27, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Guatemala-Church: Set adrift by Catholic Church and inequality, Indigenous Guatemalans turn to Orthodox Christianity (RNS) — Like the rest of Latin America, since the arrival of the Spanish, for centuries religious expression in the region had mostly been dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. That’s changing fast. Guatemala has been in a state […]
RNS Updated Budget — Friday, September 24, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 24, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Hijabi-Athlete: Illinois passes legislation to allow student athletes to wear hijab without waivers CHICAGO (RNS) — The Inclusive Athletic Attire Act, which took effect this school year, allows all Illinois student athletes to modify their uniforms in keeping with their religion, culture or personal preferences for modesty without special permission. By Emily McFarlan […]
RNS Opening Budget — Friday, September 24, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 24, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Woelki-Break: Pope Francis suspends German cardinal for failures in handling sex abuse cases (RNS) – Pope Francis accepted the request by German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki to take a six-month pause from his duties as Archbishop of the Dioceses of Cologne, wrought by sexual abuse scandals, due to his “grave mistakes” in handling […]
RNS Budget Update — Thursday, September 23, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 23, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-PPC-Biden: After months of protests, Poor People’s Campaign requests meeting with Biden WASHINGTON (RNS) — After dozens of near-weekly demonstrations in support of voting rights, raising the minimum wage and other issues, leaders of the Poor People’s Campaign have asked for a meeting with President Joe Biden, escalating efforts to arrange a public […]
RNS Opening Budget — Thursday, September 23, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 23, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-EVANGELICALS-CLIMATE: Young evangelicals to host Capitol Hill rally for climate action (RNS) — This weekend, the Young Evangelicals for Climate Action will mark the end of climate week with a rally on Capitol Hill. “It’s time to put aside political posturing and to really take bold concrete climate action, both as we seek […]
RNS Updated Budget — Wednesday, September 22, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 22, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Reconstruction-Religion: Religious artifacts in new Reconstruction exhibit depict resilience, racism (RNS) — Religious artifacts — from a pre-Civil War pew to a Bible studied before a church massacre — will be featured among the 175 objects in a new exhibition on the Reconstruction period, when U.S. slavery had recently been outlawed. The exhibition […]
RNS Opening Budget — Wednesday, September 22, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 22, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-BlackWomen-Leaders: Women making strides in leadership of Black denominations amid hesitancy (RNS) — Even as her friends and associates celebrated the election of Rev. Gina Stewart as the first woman leader of a U.S. Black Baptist organization, questions remained about where Black denominations stand on women’s leadership. Juxtaposed with this historical “first” is […]
RNS Updated Budget — Tuesday, September 21, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 21, 2021
EDS: RNS-BlackWomen-Leaders will transmit tomorrow. NEWS STORY RNS-Refugee-Ceiling: Faith-based agencies celebrate ‘return to moral leadership’ as Biden raises refugee ceiling to 125,000 (RNS) — Faith-based refugee resettlement groups are celebrating the Biden administration’s proposal to admit as many as 125,000 refugees to the United States in the coming year as a “return to moral leadership.” […]
RNS Opening Budget — Tuesday, September 21, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 21, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Refugee-Ceiling: Faith-based agencies celebrate ‘return to moral leadership’ as Biden raises refugee ceiling to 125,000 (RNS) — Faith-based refugee resettlement groups are celebrating the Biden administration’s proposal to admit as many as 125,000 refugees to the United States in the coming year as a “return to moral leadership.” By Emily McFarlan Miller. 800 […]
RNS Updated Budget — Monday, September 20, 2021
By Religion News Service — September 20, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Switchfoot-LGBTQ: Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman posts video supporting LGBTQ ‘rights and freedoms’ (RNS) — The Grammy-winning band Switchfoot, known for its Christian-adjacent rock music, released a TikTok video with a positive message toward the LGBTQ community on Friday, Sept. 17. The video comes in response to queer Christian artist Semler, who posted a video […]
