Religious Leaders Decry the Basic Immorality of GOP Health Care Bill
By Carol Kuruvilla Religion Reporter, Huffington Post Spiritual leaders from a wide spectrum of religious traditions staged a day-long prayer vigil in front of the U.S. Capitol last week to protest...
View ArticleNew Study Reveals Major Shift to America’s Religious Landscape
Christian Americans proved to be a massive voting force in the 2016 presidential election, making up at least 75 percent of voters. Majorities of Protestants, Catholics and Mormons threw their support...
View ArticleReligious Leaders Decry the Basic Immorality of GOP Health Care Bill
By Carol Kuruvilla Religion Reporter, Huffington Post Spiritual leaders from a wide spectrum of religious traditions staged a day-long prayer vigil in front of the U.S. Capitol last week to protest...
View ArticleNew Study Reveals Major Shift to America’s Religious Landscape
Christian Americans proved to be a massive voting force in the 2016 presidential election, making up at least 75 percent of voters. Majorities of Protestants, Catholics and Mormons threw their support...
View ArticleFaith Over Fear: How Churches are Helping Their Congregations despite Service...
By Elizabeth Lampkin, Contributing Writer, Chicago Defender The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life across the world. From restaurant closures, flight cancellations and school closings, the freedom and...
View ArticleWeek of Sept. 7 Designated Black-Jewish Unity Week
By National Urban League NEW YORK — In celebration of the relationship between America’s Black and Jewish communities, and in opposition to antisemitism and racism, the National Urban League and...
View ArticleStacey Abrams’ Passion for Voting Began with Her Preacher Parents
By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) — Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader who lost a razor-thin race for governor in 2018, voted on Thursday (Oct. 15), driving her ballot to a local drop box....
View ArticleArchbishop Wilton Gregory Anticipated to Lead Washington Archdiocese
By Ed Condon and JD Flynn/CAN WASHINGTON, DC — Pope Francis is expected to appoint Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta to serve as the next archbishop of Washington, multiple sources have...
View ArticleFaith Over Fear: How Churches are Helping Their Congregations despite Service...
By Elizabeth Lampkin, Contributing Writer, Chicago Defender The COVID-19 pandemic has altered life across the world. From restaurant closures, flight cancellations and school closings, the freedom and...
View ArticleWeek of Sept. 7 Designated Black-Jewish Unity Week
By National Urban League NEW YORK — In celebration of the relationship between America’s Black and Jewish communities, and in opposition to antisemitism and racism, the National Urban League and...
View ArticleStacey Abrams’ Passion for Voting Began with Her Preacher Parents
By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) — Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader who lost a razor-thin race for governor in 2018, voted on Thursday (Oct. 15), driving her ballot to a local drop box....
View ArticleArchbishop Wilton Gregory Anticipated to Lead Washington Archdiocese
By Ed Condon and JD Flynn/CAN WASHINGTON, DC — Pope Francis is expected to appoint Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta to serve as the next archbishop of Washington, multiple sources have...
View ArticleSome U.S. Black Pastors, Key Players in COVID Education, are Hesitating to...
NEW YORK (Reuters) – When a major healthcare organization asked A.R. Bernard, the Black head of a Brooklyn megachurch, to sit on a committee tasked with boosting acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines in...
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RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY: A Conversation with Jon Meacham and Bishop Curry
Jon Meacham NASHVILLE, TN — The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will discuss the intersection of religion and...
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Horn Lake Muslims Find Bigotry, New Friends In Fight For Mosque Close To Home
By GRACE MARION During Ramadan, Ray Elk and his family would return home at 1 a.m. A Jan. 3, 2022, federal consent decree says the City of Horn Lake must approve building permits for a new mosque, and...
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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference Calls For The Nation To Support...
ATLANTA – Dr. Charles Steele, Jr., president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the organization co-founded and first led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., issued the...
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Two Nuns Have a Message for Catholics Angry About Their Ministry to...
The angry emails and phone calls have been pouring in this week, and Donna Markham, O.P., the president and C.E.O. of Catholic Charities USA, has been among C.C.U.S.A. staff shocked by all the...
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Archbishop Shelton Fabre on Wokeness and the Prophetic Anger of Black Catholics
Pope Francis has appointed the Most. Rev. Shelton Fabre as the next archbishop of Louisville, Ky. Archbishop Fabre is one of two Black U.S. Catholics serving as archbishop, along with Cardinal Wilton...
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These Black Conservative Pastors Are Men Of Action, And Soul
Meet Pastors Corey Brooks and Jasper Williams. In the Middle Ages, they might have been called “fools for Christ.” The Sermon on the Mount assured that such men were storing up “treasures in heaven,...
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Black Churches 4 Digital Equity Panel On March 14th 2022 At 7-8 Pm Et
National—Black Churches 4 Digital Equity will hold a panel on March 14, 2022 at 7-8 PM ET. Long before the pandemic highlighted and expanded the gulf in internet access between served and unserved or...
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