The three-year anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on Wednesday (Oct. 27) will include an outdoor memorial service at Schenley Park, with 11 trees planted to remember those slain.
A new book on faith from popular author who died in 2019
Christian author Rachel Held Evans left behind a legion of loyal readers when she died in May 2019, at the age of 37. Last June, a children’s book she’d been working on was published posthumously and soon topped the picture-book…
Plan to Nix Trump Religious Contractor Rule Nears Release
A U.S. Department of Labor proposal to rescind a Trump-era rule on religious defenses that federal contractors can use to shield themselves from workplace discrimination claims cleared White House regulatory review, signaling it’s likely to be released soon.
Rashad Hussain faces Senate committee on historic nomination
A Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday (Oct. 26) considered the nomination of Rashad Hussain to be President Joe Biden’s ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. Hussain’s confirmation would make him the first Muslim to hold the position.
Texas executions delayed over religious rights claims
The unresolved legal debate over whether spiritual advisers can touch inmates and pray aloud as condemned individuals are being put to death has delayed the final two executions scheduled this year in Texas.
Unsettled SBU Governing Documents a Topic at MBC Meeting
Months after trustees for Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri, dropped their proposed new governing articles, updates at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s 2021 annual meeting left the ongoing issues in limbo. But MBC and SBU leaders pledged to try to…
NBA’s Enes Kanter targets China, Nike over Uyghur genocide
Boston Celtics player Enes Kanter is using social media and his shoes to offer sharp criticism of China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims. Kanter, one of the most well-known Muslims in the NBA, has also taken aim at Nike, which maintains 103…
A moving ‘reunion’ for descendants of Holocaust survivors
Anna Salton Eisen found the old pictures of Jewish prisoners who survived the Holocaust in a folder her late father, George Lucius Salton, kept most of his life.
Cornerstone University votes no-confidence in president the day before inauguration
Faculty at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, voted no confidence in the Christian school’s incoming president on Thursday (Oct. 21), one day before his scheduled inauguration.
Motion to Call for Missouri Baptist Sexual Abuse Task Force
As a national task force investigates how the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee dealt with allegations of clergy sexual abuse, a motion coming this week at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s annual meeting will propose a similar task force for Southern…
6 candidates for US Senate in Ohio vie for evangelical votes
The lone Republican moderate at a U.S. Senate candidate forum in Ohio on Sunday said at one point he felt “like a Browns fan in Pittsburgh Stadium.”
Efforts drag on to free 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti
Efforts to win the return of 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group and a local driver stretched into a fourth day Wednesday, with a violent gang demanding $1 million ransom per person.