A coalition of Christians and Catholics on Monday called on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to drop charges against media tycoon Jimmy Lai and other political activists jailed or in custody under a China-imposed national security law.
Sharbat gula’s experience exemplifies the ‘white savior’ lens through which most Americans view Afghanistan
On August 29, 2021, in an emblematic end to America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, the US military killed 10 innocent people, including 7 children, in an armed drone attack on a dense residential neighborhood of the capital city, Kabul. The Hellfire…
NFL Standout Wide Receiver Cooper Kupp Furthers Faith And Football Family Legacy
Cooper Kupp helped punch the Rams ticket to the NFC championship and Super Bowl 56 this year with his stellar performance against the Tom Brady-led Tampa Bay Buccaneers and then the San Francisco 49ers.
Cyprus Orthodox archbishop suspends 12 unvaccinated priests
The head of Cyprus’ Orthodox Christian Church said Sunday that he will suspend a dozen priests from his diocese because they refused to heed his call to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Manhattan synagogue marks its 100th year as Reconstuctionist Judaism’s flagship
One hundred years ago this March, a girl was called to the Torah at a Manhattan synagogue.
Ukrainian Seminary Leader: Russian Invasion Could Send Baptist Churches Underground
Baptists in western Ukraine have made plans to shelter fellow believers in the case of a Russian invasion at the eastern border, a Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary graduate who now leads a Baptist seminary in Ukraine told Baptist Press.
Sacred spaces: Church buildings repurposed as community hubs
Victoria Stadnik glides on roller skates down one side of a wooden halfpipe decorated in neon spray paint. Light pours in through stained-glass windows, catching her body as she rotates through the air in the nave of what used to…
Mississippi bill sets religious exemption on COVID vaccine
Mississippi government entities could not withhold services or refuse jobs to people who choose not to get vaccinated against COVID-19 under a bill that passed the Republican-controlled state House on Thursday.
Anti-Trafficking Ministries Now Fight QAnon Conspiracies Too
When Alia Dewees conducts seminars about the scourge of sex trafficking and its prevention, there’s one group of people more likely than others to quiz her about the furniture and décor company Wayfair selling missing children or kids being smuggled through tunnels under New…
Tennessee school board bans acclaimed Holocaust graphic novel, ‘Maus’
A Tennessee school board voted unanimously to remove a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust from its curriculum earlier this month over concerns about offensive words.
How Houses of Worship Became Hotbeds of Graft
No one wants to talk about the business of religion. But it’s time we do. Last week, the FBI arrested Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein in Poway, California, for having received at least $6.2 million in fake contributions to his synagogue and affiliated…
‘We are seeing a new level of despair’: Latinas decry impact of Texas abortion law
A woman who went to Planned Parenthood’s El Paso Health Center in Texas seeking an abortion early this month told the center’s workers she had been raped. They turned her down.