For the first time since anyone can remember, members of Myanmar’s majority Bamar people are seeking long-term solidarity with the country’s ethnic minorities.
Homeland Security appoints a new 25-member security faith advisory council
The Department of Homeland Security has announced the appointment of a new, 25-member faith-based advisory council to assist Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in finding ways to protect houses of worship.
He Could Be Our First Jewish President. But First He Needs to Beat a Christian Nationalist.
In one of the poorest neighborhoods in one of the poorest big cities in the country, blocks away from where a woman was gunned down just the day before, Josh Shapiro is singing with a group of Black pastors.
New museum exhibit seeks to show Samaritans are more than a biblical parable
Growing up, when Steven Fine learned about the Kutim, the Samaritans, in the Talmud, the references “went in this ear and out the other.” In 1977, he met a Samaritan for the first time at one of the salons the late…
Glenn Beck’s Nazarene Fund Won’t Say How It Spent $35 Million Raised For Afghan Evacuations
As the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan in Aug. 2021 and the Taliban quickly took over the country, government and private organizations worked to evacuate as many people as they could.
Baptist Women in Ministry: Broken systems can be reshaped
Too often, men have overlooked and silenced women who have sought to proclaim the gospel or exercise leadership in the church, Meredith Stone told the Texas Baptist Women in Ministry Conference.
Why China feels threatened by the moral authority of a 90-year-old Catholic bishop
Cardinal Joseph Zen will stand trial on Sept. 19, 2022, in Hong Kong for his role as a trustee of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. This organization paid legal fees and medical bills for Hong Kongers protesting the Extradition Law Amendment Bill.
As the religiously unaffiliated rise, a new atheist podcast network launches in Los Angeles
Revealing that you are an atheist can be a real conversation starter, but those conversations rarely go beyond the question of your beliefs, or lack thereof. A new podcast network for secularist thinkers, Atheists United Studios, attempts to show that there’s…
Texas sheriff launches probe of migrants flown to Martha’s Vineyard backed by Florida Gov. DeSantis
Texas law enforcement authorities said Monday they are opening an investigation into how 48 Venezuelan migrants were “lured” last week to board flights from San Antonio, Texas, to Martha‘s Vineyard under a plan orchestrated by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for “nothing more … than a photo…
Proposed federal abortion ban evokes 19th-century Comstock Act – a law so unpopular it triggered the centurylong backlash that led to Roe
Sen. Lindsey Graham has proposed a national U.S. abortion ban barring the procedure after 15 weeks. This push to restrict abortion access across the country follows a rash of new state laws passed by Republicans after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in…
Little churches still matter, says Martha’s Vineyard pastor of church that took in migrants
The Rev. Vincent “Chip” Seadale was at a denominational meeting in North Carolina when he got a call that something was brewing on Martha’s Vineyard.
Let’s Talk, a new racial unity initiative, takes evangelical leaders on tour of Black history
For missionary Doug Gentile, it was seeing the “shackles for tiny children” used during American slavery.