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How Chicana women artists have often used the figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe for political messages
By Judith Huacuja — November 6, 2023
(The Conversation) — Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.
Italian-American church in Brooklyn’s ‘Little Guatemala’ gets new lease on life
By Katherine Fung — April 10, 2018
A Malaysian animist group gives thanks to spirits of the sea
By Alexandra Radu — February 27, 2018
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Billy Graham set a record on Gallup’s ‘Most Admired Man’ list
By Yogita Patel — February 26, 2018
(RNS) — In 2017, even though he had not appeared in public for years, he still ranked fourth.
Billy Graham: evangelical media pioneer
By Ted Parks — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — Billy Graham's sometimes daring innovations were guided by the simple motivation to remain faithful to a divine message and proclaim it in the most effective way possible.
Prayer and a packing pastor: A church’s response to mass shooting
By Yonat Shimron — February 23, 2018
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (RNS) — In this dusty crossroads town of 600 people with one blinking red light, church members have taken a starkly different approach from that of the Florida high school students agitating for change.
How Billy Graham changed religion in America
By Mark Silk — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — He made evangelicalism the default setting for non-Catholic Christianity in America.
Billy Graham made sure his integrity was never in question
By Yonat Shimron — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — 'He was a model of financial respectability,' said Graham biographer William Martin. 'There was never a desperation pitch.'
Billy Graham’s other legacy: Best-selling author
By Delta Systems — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — 'Facing Death and the Life After' is just one of the more than 30 books he wrote.
Graham biographer: Many ‘little Billy Grahams’ succeed evangelist
By Adelle M. Banks — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — William Martin says there won't be a 'next Billy Graham.'
Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya Muslim villages
By Delta Systems — February 23, 2018
(AP) — Human rights groups say Myanmar's government is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
Center for Public Justice launches Sacred Sector initiative
By Delta Systems — February 23, 2018
New learning community empowers faith-based organizations to live out their sacred missions
I have no doubt what Billy Graham would have told the high school kids from Parkland, Fla.
By Richard Mouw — February 22, 2018
(RNS) — The teens speaking out about gun control these days are amazingly articulate about being young in an America where violence is all too present as a fact of life. What would Graham have said to them? Keep at it!
International religious freedom issues can transcend partisan divide in Congress
By Delta Systems — February 22, 2018
International religious freedom issues are growing in urgency and importance worldwide. It is against this backdrop that today 21Wilberforce released the 115th Congress Interim International Religious Freedom Congressional Scorecard. The intent of the Scorecard is to increase congressional awareness of international religious freedom issues, to encourage legislators to take bold action in support of this cause, and to publicly recognize the work of religious freedom champions in Congress.
Ruth Graham: The silent rock behind a famous evangelist
By Benedicta Cipolla — February 22, 2018
(RNS) — 'Your counsel, advice, encouragement and prayer have been my mainstay and at times I have almost clung to you in my weakness, in hours of obsession, problems and difficulties,' Billy Graham wrote in a 1963 letter to his wife, Ruth.
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