Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks in front of President Trump during a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden on May 2, 2019, in Washington. Goldstein, who leads the Chabad of Poway in San Diego, was injured when the synagogue was attacked by a gunman on April 27, 2019. RNS photo by Adelle M. Banks
Need to know: Friday, May 3, 2019
‘Who’s doing Christianity right?’ At Taylor University, Pence invitation highlights evangelical divide.
Like so much of evangelicalism in the United States, Taylor University has in recent years found itself engaged in a battle for the soul of the movement.
China is punishing Muslims for fasting. So US Muslims are fasting from China.
While leaders of Muslim-majority nations have largely been silent on the Uighur persecution, the Fast From China campaign has caught on with U.S. Muslims.
AP Exclusive: Synagogue just got money to improve security
The $150,000 federal grant was approved in September but only got awarded in late March.
The man who painted Jesus
April 30 is the 127th birthday of an artist whose name you probably don’t know, but his work may be the most widely distributed of the 20th century, writes Matthew Robert Anderson.
Trump touts new faith-based protections for health-care workers at National Day of Prayer ceremony
During a speech Thursday before faith leaders, President Trump announced a new rule allowing health providers, insurers and employers to refuse to provide or pay for services such as abortion, sterilization or assisted suicide that they say violate their religious or moral beliefs.
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In India, charges against a Catholic bishop a victory for abused nuns
Only after five of the victim's fellow nuns staged a 15-day protest outside Kerala’s high court building in Kochi last summer was the bishop, who denies the charges, arrested and eventually charged.
Anti-Muslim hate is driven by politics, not faith — and it’s preventable, study suggests
Americans who personally know a Muslim are more than twice as likely to have a favorable opinion toward Muslims than those who do not, a new report finds.
ADL study: Violence against Jews doubled last year
In all, 59 Jewish Americans were physically assaulted because of their religion in 2018, up from 21 in 2017.
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Reinventing religion, millennials rewrite the rules of relationships
(RNS) — Creating bespoke religious traditions as they are, it makes sense that millennials would also create bespoke relationship models.
The Cartoon and the Rabbi
(RNS) — A rabbi shot in an anti-Semitic attack published an oped in the Times days after the paper apologized for a anti-Semitic cartoon, a testament to the unique place the paper holds in American, and American Jewish, life.
Why white nationalism tempts white Christians
Too often Christian individuals and institutions act as if general statements condemning bigotry and saccharine assertions of racial and ethnic equality are sufficient to combat white nationalism. They are not, writes Jemar Tisby.
