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Faith for Pride 2023
By Jonathan Woodward — June 18, 2023
Leaders of faith and of conscience share why they're celebrating Faith for Pride throughout June, organizing and mobilizing against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and hateful rhetoric that threaten the lives of LGBTQ+ people.
Clergy file suit over Missouri abortion ban, arguing it establishes a religion
By Jack Jenkins — January 19, 2023
(RNS) — ‘Our elected officials have violated their oath to uphold that constitution by weaponizing religious beliefs,’ said the Rev. Traci Blackmon.
In two years, this mainline denomination has paid off $100 million in medical debt
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 14, 2022
(RNS) — The United Church of Christ announced Monday (Feb. 14) that it used $200,000 from one of its annual Giving Tuesday campaigns to purchase and pay off $33 million in medical debt for residents of Ohio, where the mainline Protestant denomination is based.
Cece Jones-Davis continues support for Julius Jones, whom she helped get off death row
By Adelle M. Banks — February 9, 2022
(RNS) — ‘She has helped move mountains that I’m not sure we even thought could be moved,’ Jones said of the advocate.
After Middle Church fire, advice from houses of worship that have survived disaster
By Adelle M. Banks — December 15, 2020
(RNS) — ‘Document everything. Cross every T. Dot every I,’ says an African Methodist Episcopal pastor whose Tennessee church building was hit by a tornado.
Keeping safe while serving, church groups tackle pandemic and protests
By Joshua Eaton — June 30, 2020
(RNS) — Through a series of crises, church leaders have had to navigate how to meet people’s needs while keeping their volunteers safe.
How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left
By Jack Jenkins — April 17, 2020
(RNS) — From a new book by RNS correspondent Jack Jenkins that chronicles a new era of progressive activism and the hard work of reforging connections and reckoning with past mistakes required to revive a movement.
Chicago churches join growing movement of congregations paying off medical debt
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 28, 2019
CHICAGO (RNS) — A group of Chicago churches is joining a growing trend of congregations paying off medical debt for the people in their communities and beyond — and hoping to start a movement.
Christian leaders call for Day of Prayer in support of impeachment inquiry
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 8, 2019
(RNS) — More than 80 Christian leaders are calling for a National Day of Prayer this Sunday (Oct. 13) 'for the truth to be revealed through the impeachment inquiry.'
Boisterous faith leaders and a silent Pete Buttigieg rally against Trump at White House
By Jack Jenkins — June 12, 2019
(RNS) — Despite being repeatedly blocked by federal agents and the mysterious closure of a park across from the White House, the demonstrators still got their message of resistance to the president across.
Clergy arrested outside McConnell’s office while protesting health care bill
By Madeleine Buckley — July 13, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Protestors said they want McConnell know it's immoral to cut Medicaid because it helps many children, seniors, and disabled persons.
‘Moral Mondays’ leader starts ‘moral revolution’ tour
By Adelle M. Banks — March 29, 2016
(RNS) “Way too much of our national discourse has been poisoned by hateful language and policies,” said the Rev. William J. Barber II.
Rachel Held Evans, others nominated to advise President Obama
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2016
(RNS) She joins ministers from the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church nominated to a White House advisory council.
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