The city of Austin is attempting to shield its residents from prosecution under a Texas law that would criminalize almost all abortions if Roe v. Wade is overturned — the first push by a major city in a red state to try…
Asian American Christians see more work for the church to do to stop AAPI hate
After members of the congregation read Scripture aloud and after a discussion about a work of art depicting the body of Christ, the Rev. Juliet Liu approached one of the microphones among the chairs arranged in a circle around the…
‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’: Ukrainian Orthodox Church Ruptures Relations with Russia
In a council decision taken May 27, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC)–affiliated body declared its “full self-sufficiency and independence,” condemning the three-month conflict as “a violation of God’s commandment: Thou shalt not kill!”
Church of God in Christ congregations given $100,000 by pandemic support campaign
A fundraising campaign to help small churches during the COVID-19 pandemic has been extended with a $100,000 donation to congregations of the Church of God in Christ.
Cops investigate swastika painted on Black Missouri church
A black swastika was painted on the outside wall of an historically Black church in southwestern Missouri and police are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.
Pelosi now barred from Communion in at least four dioceses
Since San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barred House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving the Eucharist in his jurisdiction last Friday (May 20), three other bishops from the conservative wing of the U.S. Catholic Church have followed, citing her support for abortion rights…
On remote US territories, abortion hurdles mount without Roe
Women from the remote U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will likely have to travel farther than other Americans to terminate a pregnancy if the Supreme Court overturns a precedent that established a national right to abortion…
Buffalo and Uvalde both appear to have involved the AR-15, the rifle revered by the Christian right
For the second time in almost as many weeks, a mass shooter used an AR-15-style rifle to kill innocent Americans. On May 14, PG allegedly used a variation of the AR-15 to shoot 13 people, 10 of them fatally. Just…
Ukrainians Count The Days As They Pray
Ukrainians no longer measure time with words like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and so forth, said Marina Noyes.
Texans plan interfaith protest at Friday’s NRA convention in Houston
Outraged by the massacre of 19 children and two teachers inside a school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday (May 24), organizers of an interfaith protest for stricter gun laws will gather outside of a Houston convention center on Friday where…
Buffalo’s Black Christians Grieve the ‘Evil Among Us’
Buffalo this week is bearing the heaviness of 10 funerals all at once.
Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate
Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate Thursday as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.