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Faith and the COVID-19 Vaccine

Fortitude through faith: The Muslim pandemic experience
By Omar Suleiman, Rania Awaad, and Taimur Kouser — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — Mental health increasingly — and erroneously — operates under the umbrella of secularism.

Jehovah’s Witnesses to resume in-person gatherings, door knocking still on hold
By Alejandra Molina — March 18, 2022

Could Novavax win over some religious vaccine skeptics?
By Jack Jenkins — February 18, 2022
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Houses of worship grapple with the future of their online services
By Diana Kruzman — February 14, 2022
(RNS) — Two years into the pandemic, more religious institutions are asking themselves what a hybrid approach can and should look like.

Missouri governor’s ‘Christian values’ statement questioned
By Jim Salter — February 4, 2022
(AP) — Gov. Mike Parson indicated earlier in the week he would only nominate a state health director who shared his “Christian values.”

Undertakers, rabbis join global fight promoting COVID shots
By Lindsey Tanner — December 28, 2021
(AP) — Vaccine promoters are up against fear, mistrust, complacency, inconvenience and people who simply have bigger worries than COVID-19.

Hard-hit by COVID, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox slow to get shots
By Tia Goldenberg — December 28, 2021
BNEI BRAK, Israel (AP) — The group has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country despite being pummeled by the virus throughout the pandemic.

In eastern Germany, pastors push for shots despite protests
By Kirsten Grieshaber — December 28, 2021
CHEMNITZ, Germany (AP) — Lutheran pastors across Saxony have used their sermons to promote vaccines as the most efficient way to end the pandemic.

Some pastors fear talking about vaccines. Bishop Horace Smith sees them as a blessing.
By Bob Smietana — December 9, 2021
(RNS) — Church leaders can play an important role in promoting COVID-19 vaccines to keep communities safe — if they build trust.

Survey: Americans concerned too many are seeking religious exemptions to vaccines
By Jack Jenkins — December 9, 2021
(RNS) — Most Americans support the existence of religious exemptions, however.

Russian coronavirus-denying monk given prison sentence
By Vladimir Isachenkov — November 30, 2021
Father Sergiy was arrested in December 2020 on charges of inciting suicidal actions through sermons in which he urged believers to “die for Russia,” breaching the freedom of conscience and making arbitrary moves.

Court temporarily blocks San Diego schools’ vaccine mandate after suit filed by 16-year-old
By Alejandra Molina — November 29, 2021
(RNS) — The Ninth District Court of Appeals on Sunday (Nov. 28) temporarily blocked San Diego Unified School District’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate from taking effect, one day before students were required to have their first dose.

Faith advisory board with Trump ties urges religious vaccine exemptions for military
By Jack Jenkins — November 23, 2021
(RNS) — But at least one prominent Trump evangelical adviser did not sign on to the effort, suggesting division on the issue.

Kosovars get COVID vaccine after Friday prayer at mosques
By Associated Press — November 19, 2021
Imams around Kosovo called on the faithful to get the jab while medical teams waited in the mosques’ yards to inoculate them.

What would Maimonides say about Dennis Prager?
By Mark Silk — November 12, 2021
(RNS) — The 12th-century Jewish scholar would likely have called him a majnūn.
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