On March 31, 1966, labor rights pioneer Cesar Chavez wasn’t celebrating his birthday in any usual manner. Rather, he was 14 days into a 25-day pilgrimage in California from Delano to Sacramento.
GOP Rep Slams ‘Unchristian’ GOP Immigration Proposals
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) just made life more difficult for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Responding to Indigenous, Vatican rejects Discovery Doctrine
The Vatican on Thursday responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis of some property laws today.
Faith leaders and religious groups voice opposition to Biden’s plan to restrict asylum
Taking advantage of a required public comment period, a broad array of faith leaders and religious groups, including faith-based refugee aid organizations, are speaking out against a proposed federal rule that would generally deny asylum to migrants who arrive at…
Carl Lentz, in first staff position since Hillsong, joins Transformation Church in Tulsa
Carl Lentz, the ousted pastor of Hillsong New York City, has landed on staff at Transformation Church, a predominantly Black, nondenominational megachurch in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that is led by pastor, author and popular YouTuber Michael Todd.
UK’s Religion-Free Speech Debates Enter ‘Thoughtcrime’ Zone
Wherever he goes, Father Sean Gough prays for the people he encounters — sometimes out loud and often silently.
Jimmy Carter believes Black lives matter. Would his decency be considered ‘woke’ today?
Former President Jimmy Carter’s uncommon decency – that led to a Nobel Prize-winning human rights campaign – would be called woke in today’s America because he truly believes Black lives matter.
The Man Who Leads Senate Prayer Is Fed Up With ‘Thoughts And Prayers’
After another mass shooting took the lives of six people, including three 9-year-old children, at a Nashville, Tennessee, school, Senate Chaplain Barry Black used his opening prayer to urge lawmakers to take action.
At launch rally in Waco, former president sets the stakes for Trump ’24 campaign with apocalyptic, violent, genocidal rhetoric
Donald Trump’s Waco rally this past weekend was, in the end, filled with echoes of the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound—just not the kind we like to talk about. And, despite the Huffington Post and New York Times profiles of the Q-adjacent current leader…
Judge rules immigration officials violated pastor’s religious freedom rights
A New York pastor and immigrant rights activist has won a protracted legal battle against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, with a judge ruling last week that federal agents violated her religious freedom and retaliated against her following a…
A ‘historic’ day in Israel ends with a political compromise — and big questions about the future
Like hundreds of thousands of her fellow Israelis, Kelly Breakstone Roth’s instinct on Sunday was to take to the streets.
NY’s power to regulate religious schools trimmed by judge
Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of such schools, including those…