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Brazil’s Bolsonaro picks evangelical for supreme court seat
By Mauricio Savarese — July 14, 2021
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday named Attorney General Andre Mendonca, an evangelical pastor, to Brazil's supreme court.
Pope Francis returns to Vatican 10 days after surgery
By Nicole Winfield, Domenico Stinellis, and Gianfranco Stara — July 14, 2021
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was discharged from a Rome hospital and returned home to the Vatican on Wednesday, 10 days after undergoing surgery.
Trump ambassador launches his own religious freedom franchise
By Jack Jenkins — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — The gathering’s organizers said it provides a rare example of bipartisan support in an era known for partisan rift.
In resignation letter, Cornel West says Harvard constitutes ‘intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy’
By Alejandra Molina — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Cornel West released the text of a June 30 letter outlining his reasons for leaving Harvard.
Gordon-Conwell seminary alumni and staff protest loss of Black professor
By Adelle M. Banks — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — ‘We understand that these are times of tight finances, but as Scripture says that where our treasure is, there our heart will be also,’ wrote his supporters.
ACNA leaders to take over abuse investigation in Upper Midwest diocese
By Bob Smietana — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Anglican Bishop Stewart Ruch III has taken a leave of absence, saying he made ‘regrettable errors’ in handling allegations of abuse.
JewBelong goes digital — and hot pink — in campaign to sound alarm on antisemitism
By Yonat Shimron and Renée Roden — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Seven such billboards have been flashing at Times Square for more than a month. Beginning this week, they are going up in four other cities.
Southern Baptist youth pastor and National Guard chaplain suspended after arrest on solicitation charges
By Bob Smietana — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Fairfield Baptist Church in Tennessee says it is shocked by the arrest of the church's youth minister and will cooperate with authorities.
US cites China, Myanmar, Ethiopia in genocide report
By Matthew Lee — July 13, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday renewed genocide allegations against China for repression of Uyghur Muslims.
Collapsed condo: Weighing how to honor dead at ‘holy site’
By Bobby Caina Calvan — July 13, 2021
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The question is swirling across the ruins of the Champlain Towers South: What will become of the ground that bears so much pain?
Game changer: How mahjong helped Jewish and Asian Americans overcome racism
By Menachem Wecker — July 13, 2021
(RNS) — Today, a new book on mahjong and its cultural journey in the US suggests that there is much to learn from the game’s history, particularly how to put the rising anti-Asian and anti-Jewish hatred of our time in context.
Paganism, gods and goddesses aside, is the most LGBTQ-affirming faith in the US
By Heather Greene — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — But some pagans say more visibility for trans and gay members of a largely white, mostly heterosexual community is needed.
Amid Catholic opposition, states are legalizing composting of human remains
By Alejandra Molina — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the US states that have legalized the process of converting bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show 'respect for the body of the deceased.'
A new resource for combating Christian nationalism sees it as a ‘distortion of the gospel’
By Yonat Shimron — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — A three-session curriculum offers churches a resource for sermons or discussion groups about the ideology it calls a 'distortion of the gospel of Jesus and a threat to American democracy.'
Four new bishops — and first biracial bishop — elected to AME Church
By Kathryn Post — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church elected four new bishops on Saturday, July 10, the final day of the 2021 General Conference.
