volunteerism
Israelis channel anxiety over war into volunteering to support army and each other
By Michele Chabin — October 13, 2023
JERUSALEM (RNS) — From army-green 'tzitzit' to airline tickets.
Ancient Knights of Malta get their 1st non-aristocratic head
By Nicole Winfield — May 5, 2023
ROME (AP) — John Dunlap was born in Ottawa and practices law in New York. He found his vocation to the Knights in the 1980s while volunteering with AIDS patients at the Cardinal Cooke Medical Center in Harlem, where he has continued to volunteer.
Is a Great Resignation brewing for pastors?
By Scott Thumma — March 18, 2022
(RNS) — If there is a mass exodus, it's likely not the pandemic alone that burned clergy out.
100 young Jews are volunteering this summer as part of a new service project
By Yonat Shimron — July 14, 2020
(RNS) — Serve the Moment is intended to inspire young Jewish adults to perform 100,000 acts of service during this turbulent summer when the coronavirus is spreading and social unrest over racial inequality is rising.
At 87, ‘disaster deacon’ opens his heart — and church — to flooding victims
By Bobby Ross Jr. — June 17, 2019
TULSA, Okla. (The Christian Chronicle) — Across the Midwest, 28 Red Cross and community shelters in five states have tended to the victims of flooding, tornados and other natural disasters. Many of those shelters are at houses of worship.
Survivors of California’s unending fires cook up Thanksgiving for latest victims
By Paul O'Donnell — November 20, 2018
(RNS) — Rallying more than 100 volunteers, three women who have lost homes or family members to fires plan to feed 1,000 people on Thanksgiving Day.
Millennials: get over your faith phobia
By Aamir Hussain — May 24, 2018
(RNS) — Interfaith work isn’t about watering down our religions. It’s about building relationships so we can together serve others.
Car-care ministries a growing niche in midsize cities
By Madeleine Buckley — June 29, 2017
(RNS) In places where public transportation is lacking, the need for cheap, or free, car care is soaring.
Want to help quake-struck Nepal? Experts: Send money, don’t volunteer
By Reuters — April 28, 2015
As the death toll from Saturday's massive quake mounts, experts say support established charities and aid groups that know what's needed most, avoid disaster scammers.
On Thanksgiving, Jews and Muslims volunteer together despite Middle East violence
By Lauren Markoe — November 20, 2012
(RNS) Muslims and Jews are together feeding the hungry this Thanksgiving season in an effort to improve Muslim-Jewish relations and answer both faiths' call to nourish the needy. By Lauren Markoe.
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