HIV/AIDS
Why an organization founded to care for orphans no longer has a children’s home
By Vaughan Stannard — April 17, 2024
(RNS) — Our aim now is to strengthen families to raise thriving children.
New York Archdiocese denounces transgender activist’s funeral held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
By Brian P. D. Hannon — February 19, 2024
(AP) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of Cecilia Gentili, which was held in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan and drew a large audience on Thursday.
Manhattan’s Middle Collegiate Church begins façade demolition
By Fiona André — November 20, 2023
(RNS) — The congregation is already working on architectural plans with an expected cost of between $30 - $40 million.
African churches urge US Congress to reauthorize PEPFAR
By Fredrick Nzwili — September 18, 2023
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — The leaders are writing in response to a letter sent to Congress in June by religious groups and legislators asserting that the funds for the program were financing family planning and reproductive health programs, including abortion.
The Rev. Steve Pieters, who changed minds about AIDS, dies at 70
By Riley Farrell — July 14, 2023
(RNS) — His vanguard interview with Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker at the time) aired in an era when fear and false information about HIV/AIDS ran rampant in conservative Christian communities.
Making monkeypox the new leprosy repeats our past public health mistakes
By Mark Lambert — October 7, 2022
(RNS) — Leprosy has a long history of being used to disenfranchise already socially marginalized populations.
Judge rules required coverage of HIV prevention drug violates employer’s religious freedom
By Associated Press — September 7, 2022
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that required coverage of an HIV prevention drug under the Affordable Care Act violates a Texas employer’s religious beliefs and undercut the broader system that determines which preventive drugs are covered in the U.S. The ruling was handed down by Fort Worth-based U.S. District Judge […]
Non-affirming views continue to complicate HIV/AIDS response in Black churches
By Richa Karmarkar — August 15, 2022
(RNS) — A new study highlights an overall negative attitude toward homosexuality in the Black church. Now, Black LGBT clergy members are working to combat stigma in congregations about the public health issues of HIV and AIDS.
A divinity school steps up to fight the HIV epidemic in the South
By Monique Parsons — February 7, 2022
(Interfaith America) — Wake Forest University School of Divinity in North Carolina is host to the Gilead COMPASS Faith Coordinating Center, part of a $100 million, multi-pronged effort to bring down HIV infection rates and destigmatize the disease.
Pope Francis praises book detailing LGBTQ ministry during HIV/AIDS pandemic
By Claire Giangravé — November 15, 2021
(RNS) — The book 'Hidden Mercy,' written by journalist Michael O’Loughlin, portrays the stories of Catholics who ministered to the LGBTQ community during the deadly AIDS pandemic in the United States.
How the Black church can help end the HIV/AIDS crisis
By Frederick A. Davie and Don Abram — August 29, 2021
(RNS) — The HIV/AIDs epidemic remains a looming threat to Black communities.
UMC edges toward historic split over LGBTQ inclusion. This church showed the way.
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 22, 2021
(RNS) — Community of Hope was founded in 1993 as an outreach to ‘people on the margin,’ including LGBTQ people and people living with HIV/AIDS, according to its former pastor.
In Togo, a Catholic nun fights COVID-19 for the sake of her AIDS patients
By Clément Girardot — June 19, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Here, people won’t die from COVID-19 but mostly from its consequences,’ said Sister Marie Stella Kouak, a Catholic nun whose AIDS relief program has seen costs rise as funding dries up.
Pope Francis calls for peace in Mozambique ahead of contested presidential elections
By Claire Giangravé — September 6, 2019
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — During his homily, the pope invited Mozambicans to 'an attitude of mercy and goodness above all toward those who, by their place in society, quickly encounter rejection and exclusion,' and later visited an AIDS/HIV clinic.
Jimmy Allen, a Southern Baptist for everyone, taught us how to deal with change
By Bill Leonard — January 14, 2019
(RNS) — History will remember the last moderate Southern Baptist leader for his grace in the upheavals that hit American religious and political life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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