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RNS Updated Budget—Tuesday, August 17, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 17, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-WhiteHouse-Afghanistan: Biden approves new refugee funds, fends off criticism from aid groups WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Joe Biden has approved an additional $500 million to help aid refugees in Afghanistan, pushing through funds as the White House fends off suggestions it initially failed a moral test to aid those fleeing the Middle Eastern […]
RNS Opening Budget—Tuesday, August 17, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 17, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Catholic-Afghan: Catholic refugee in Rome appeals to pope to help rescue Afghan family (RNS) – Ali Ehsani, a Catholic Afghan refugee, knows how difficult it can be to escape Afghanistan to freedom in the West. Having encountered a family secretly practicing Catholicism in Kabul, he is pleading with Pope Francis and the international […]
RNS Updated Budget—Monday, August 16, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 16, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Afghan-Refugees: Refugee aid groups criticize Biden for stumbles in evacuating ‘desperate’ Afghans WASHINGTON (RNS) — Faith-based agencies have been calling for the evacuation of Afghan allies as a moral imperative and are working now to help bring those people to the U.S. amid the takeover of the country by the Taliban, the militant […]
RNS Opening Budget—Monday, August 16, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 16, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-COVID-Kids: Unvaccinated children drive congregations’ back-to-school decisions (RNS) — Across the country, congregations of a variety of faiths are grappling with what to do and what not to do as children — especially those under 12 who do not have access to a COVID-19 vaccine — are returning to academic classrooms amid rising […]
RNS Updated Budget—Friday, August 13, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 13, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-McElroy-Vaccine: California Catholic bishop tells priests to decline vaccine exemption requests (RNS) — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has sent a letter instructing priests in his diocese that there is no basis in Catholic teaching to offer a religious exemption to COVID-19 vaccinations, as more employers and schools are enacting vaccine mandates. By […]
RNS Opening Budget—Friday, August 13, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 13, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-McElroy-Vaccine: California Catholic bishop tells priests to decline vaccine exemption requests (RNS) — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has sent a letter instructing priests in his diocese that there is no basis in Catholic teaching to offer a religious exemption to COVID-19 vaccinations, as more employers and schools are enacting vaccine mandates. By […]
RNS Updated Budget — Thursday, August 12, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 12, 2021
EDS: RNS-Feucht-Security will come tomorrow NEWS STORY RNS-PPC-VotingRights: Faith leaders and Texas Democrats march to Capitol to demand voting protections (RNS) — A group of faith leaders, including the Poor People’s Campaign co-chairs Rev. William Barber and Rev. Liz Theoharis, marched alongside Texas Democrats to the Capitol building in DC to deliver letters demanding stronger […]
RNS Opening Budget — Thursday, August 12, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 12, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Chosen-Vatican: ‘The Chosen’ finds its Catholic spirit in the Eternal City (RNS) – It’s doesn’t happen often for Pope Francis to meet no other than Jesus after his weekly public audience in St. Peter’s Square. But while greeting faithful on Wednesday the pope spoke with Jonathan Roumie, who portrays Christ in the hit […]
RNS Updated Budget — Wednesday, August 11, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 11, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Tarot-Study: Study: Gen Z doubles down on spirituality, combining tarot and traditional faith (RNS) — While the interest in tarot and other forms of divination often corresponds to a complete rejection of traditional religion, that is not a given. Many young readers continue to identify with a traditional faith, while looking beyond established structures […]
RNS Opening Budget — Wednesday, August 11, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 11, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Shul-Funding: Jewish and Latino legislators announce funding to renovate century-old synagogue in L.A.’s Eastside LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Legislators from the Latino and Jewish caucuses on Tuesday (Aug. 10) gathered in the Eastside Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights to announce $14.9 million in funding to renovate the century-old Breed Street Shul — […]
RNS Updated Budget — Tuesday, August 10, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 10, 2021
EDS: RNS-Shul-Funding will come tomorrow. 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, […]
RNS Opening Budget — Tuesday, August 10, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 10, 2021
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 […]
RNS Updated Budget — Monday, August 9, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 9, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Shriver-Obit: Christian ethicist Donald W. Shriver Jr., who called America to repent of racism, dies (RNS) — The Rev. Donald W. Shriver Jr., acclaimed Christian ethicist, Presbyterian minister and former president of Union Theological Seminary, died July 28 at age 93. He wrote widely about the need for white Americans to face and […]
RNS Opening Budget — Monday, August 9, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 9, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-WillowCreek-Covid: Willow Creek pastor Dave Dummitt tests positive for COVID-19 on heels of Global Leadership Summit (RNS) — The pastor of an influential Chicago megachurch has tested positive for COVID. David Dummitt, senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, tested positive after attending a major leadership event at the church.By Bob Smietana. 350 […]
RNS Updated Budget — Friday, August 6, 2021
By Religion News Service — August 6, 2021
NEWS STORY RNS-Olympics-Chaplain: Chaplain provides friendly face, spiritual and mental support to Olympians amid unusual Games (RNS) — Across the time difference between the United States and Japan, Stuart Weir of Verite Sport answered questions from Religion News Service by email about how faith is helping athletes through the unprecedented challenges of a pandemic Games. By […]
