Sally Morrow

Sally Morrow joined Religion News Service in March 2012 as Photo/Multimedia Editor. She is a photographer and editor based in Kansas City. Morrow has worked as a multimedia editor and photographer at Newsday, The Des Moines Register, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

All Stories by Sally Morrow

FEATURE VIDEO: Jewish New Year shofar blowers break world record

By Sally Morrow — September 23, 2014
(RNS) More than 1,000 shofar blowers set a world record in Whippany, N.J., blasting the instruments in unison for five straight minutes on Sunday (Sept. 21). The sound of the shofar at the start of the Jewish New Year is intended to pierce Jewish hearts and inspire awe and forgiveness.

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly VIDEO: Richard Cizik talks of losing his son to heroin

By Sally Morrow — September 8, 2014
(RNS) Richard Cizik, a prominent evangelical, lost his son, Richard Jr., to an overdose last year. Now he is pushing faith communities to get more involved by first acknowledging that heroin abuse is happening in their own churches.

FEATURED VIDEO: The Rebbe’s legacy

By Sally Morrow — September 5, 2014
The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, led the Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement until his death 20 years ago, and still has a strong influence on Jewish students.

FEATURED VIDEO: China orphan care

By Sally Morrow — August 29, 2014
"Former Hollywood screenwriter Jenny Bowen was moved to adopt two orphaned Chinese girls after she and her husband learned about the widespread abandonment and neglect of children in China, many of them girls."

ARCHIVE PHOTOS: Around the world

By Sally Morrow — August 21, 2014
A sampling of our most powerful and moving archival images from around the world.

FEATURED VIDEO: ‘Hands up’ for Ferguson

By Sally Morrow — August 17, 2014
Members of Middle Collegiate Church in New York held a worship celebration on Sunday (Aug. 17) in which attendees held their hands up as a gesture to pray for "racial reconciliation throughout our country."

FEATURED VIDEO: Atrocities in Myanmar

By Sally Morrow — August 14, 2014
"Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, continues to experience the violent persecution of its minority population of Rohingya Muslims. Muslims are being attacked by mobs of extremist Buddhist factions, despite Buddhist principles of nonviolence."

FEATURED VIDEO: Super 8 film of Pope Paul VI’s visit to Sydney

By Sally Morrow — August 3, 2014
This video shows Pope Paul VI’s trip to Sydney in 1970 — the first papal visit to Australia. It was filmed by 2SM, a popular music radio station owned by the Roman Catholic Church.

RNS archive photo of the day

By Sally Morrow — August 1, 2014
(1982) On the 4th day of his week-long hunger strike and vigil on behalf of Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, Rabbi Avraham Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, N.Y., comforts Shcharansky's wife, Avital, outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations in New York.

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Mormon missionary expansion

By Sally Morrow — May 29, 2014
"The number of people in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is going up steadily as a result of lower age limits for both men and women who want to serve as missionaries."

Video: Not in God’s Name

By Sally Morrow — May 23, 2014
A new campaign called #NotInGodsName (Not In God's Name) is an a public declaration to reject criminal acts in the name of God or any religion.

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Women, religion, violence and power

By Sally Morrow — May 14, 2014
"Of all the social issues facing our world, President Jimmy Carter says the abuse of women and girls is the greatest injustice of all, and that the pretext is often religion."

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Video: Diminishing job prospects for Protestant pastors

By Sally Morrow — May 8, 2014
"The reality is there are not nearly as many available jobs as pastors as there were even a few years ago. Seminaries and divinity schools have seen a drop in enrollment, and especially in the number of graduates who become pastors. There are several reasons, but the main one is that not as many people are attending mainline churches anymore. So there is less need and less money to afford a pastor."

Photo slideshow: National Day of Prayer

By Sally Morrow — May 1, 2014
The National Day of Prayer, established by Congress in 1952, was marked across the country on Thursday (May 1). Religion News Service captured photos during a prayer service in Lake Lotawana, Mo., where the community gathered to pray for federal and local government, as well as the military, media, business, education, church and family.

Video: HAPPY for 2 pope saints

By Sally Morrow — April 28, 2014
Nuns, priests, children and people all over Rome dance along to Pharrell Williams' hit song "Happy," in celebration of two popes becoming saints.
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