Boaters ride along the Papaloapan River during the annual Virgin de la Candelaria procession in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, on Feb. 2, 2019. RNS photo by Irving Cabrera Torres
Need to know: Monday, February 11, 2019
Mexico’s Fiesta de la Candelaria ends Christmas with a bang
A traditional Candlemas celebration in the southern Mexican town of Tlacotalpan combines mischief and heartfelt adoration of the Virgin Mary.
‘If you care about democratic society, fight anti-Semitism’
Deborah Lipstadt writes with a scholar’s analytical gaze about the ugly upturn of anti-Semitism, but she concedes, “My attempt to explore a perplexing and disturbing set of circumstances is written with the hope that it will provoke action.”
Six-year prison sentence for Jehovah’s Witness in Russia sparks outcry
Dennis Christensen, a 46-year-old carpenter who has lived in Russia for more than two decades, was sentenced on Wednesday.
US Muslim leaders call on China to end persecution of Uighurs
The letter called for the release of detainees from the internment camps and for U.S. consumers to boycott imports produced by detainees’ forced labor.
After attack on Hindu community, Kentucky shows the way forward
Indian and Hindu Kentuckians work with leaders across faith and cultural backgrounds to show a united front in the face of hate crime against Hindu temple in Louisville, Ky., writes Jay Kansara.
‘Pure evil’: Southern Baptist leaders condemn decades of sexual abuse revealed in investigation
“20 years, 700 victims”: So reads part of the headline of a sweeping investigation that has found years of sexual abuse perpetrated by hundreds of Southern Baptist church leaders against an even larger number of victims.
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Supreme Court: Execution of Muslim inmate can proceed
The inmate argued that Alabama's execution procedure favors Christian inmates because a Christian chaplain employed by the prison typically remains in the execution chamber during a lethal injection.
Rabbi with a gift for fundraising among evangelicals mourned as friend
Yechiel Eckstein was the spark that ignited an appreciation and even love for Israel and for the Jewish people among evangelicals.
Trump strikes muted tone at National Prayer Breakfast, plays up evangelical interests
'I will never let you down, I can say that — never,' Trump said to the attendees at the religious gathering.
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The evolution of sin
Virtue and vice have long been inextricably linked to self-control. But lately we've been asking, what's it all for, writes Tara Isabella Burton.
There are no real evangelicals. Only imagined ones.
There are, in fact, many evangelicalisms and each has a different center and different boundaries, writes Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
Yechiel Eckstein was a bridge to Christian evangelicals
"The whole world hates us." Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein proved that wrong.
