In or around 1825, John Andrew Jackson was born enslaved on a plantation in South Carolina and trained to spend his life picking cotton.
BWA Presents 2024 Human Rights Award and Special Citation
In the closing General Council session of the 2024 Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Annual Gathering hosted in Lagos, Nigeria, the BWA presented the 2024 Denton and Janice Lotz Human Rights Award to Julie Mariama Sesay. Established in 2006, the annual…
Voter protection training begins as clergy, secular groups look toward election
Faith leaders are making plans to provide a de-escalating presence at the polls months ahead of another deeply contested presidential election in an increasingly polarized country.
El Salvador’s Prisons Are Full. Prison Ministries Are Not.
In just over two years, El Salvador’s government has sent 80,000 people to prison. With over 111,000 people incarcerated, the country has the world’s highest proportion of people behind bars—one inmate for every 56 people.
Israel’s military will begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men on Sunday. It could rattle the government
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men on Sunday — a step that could destabilize Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
How Pope Francis has threaded dissent from right and left to avoid schism
In September 2019, returning from a visit to Africa, Pope Francis reflected on the flight home to Rome on the tensions that were tearing at the unity of the church. “I pray that there will be no schism,” the pope…
Former ‘Bachelor’ contestant Anna Redman apologizes for ‘flippant’ post about her Auschwitz visit attire
Anna Redman, a social media influencer and former contestant on reality dating show “The Bachelor,” has apologized for posting a “flippant” Instagram story sharing her planned outfit for a visit to Auschwitz.
Families of School Shooting Victims Call Out Marco Rubio For Saying God Protected Trump
Families of school shooting victims are calling out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) for saying that God protected former President Donald Trump in the assassination attempt against him.
Electing a virtuous president would make immunity irrelevant, writes a political philosopher
The Supreme Court’s decision that grants presidents immunity from criminal prosecution for their “official acts” has been met by alarm by many legal scholars.