Sight-Seeing: God’s on His throne. But we still have to do the work.
In an article published on Religion News Service, ANDRE HENRY, program manager for the Racial Justice Institute at Christians for Social Action, argues that saying “God is on the throne” is not an excuse to disengage…
Man sentenced to life after failed French church bombing
Lyon, FranceAP A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria. The court imposed the sentence after a jury […]
Nearly 2,000 Catholic nuns sign letter demanding Trump “count the votes”
RNS Nearly 2,000 nuns have signed a letter addressed to President Donald Trump suggesting he abandon calls to halt vote tallies in various states and instead “count the votes.” The letter accuses “some elected officials” of making “the immoral choice to hold onto power at any cost, including disenfranchising thousands, denying their most sacred gift: […]
Head of Serbian Orthodox Church in hospital with coronavirus
Belgrade, Serbia AP The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church has been hospitalized after testing positive for the new coronavirus, days after leading prayers at a large public funeral for the head of the church in Montenegro, who died after contracting the virus. The Serbian Orthodox Church said late Wednesday that the 90-year-old Patriarch Irinej […]
Pope moves against Secretariat of State amid finance scandal
Rome, ItalyAP Pope Francis is giving the Vatican Secretariat of State three months to transfer all of its financial holdings to another Vatican office following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of euros in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation. Francis summoned the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro […]
US vote count edges Biden closer to win as Trump mounts legal challenges
Washington DC, USReuters Democrat Joe Biden moved closer to victory in the US presidential race on Thursday as election officials tallied votes in the handful of states that will determine the outcome and protesters took to the streets. President Donald Trump alleged fraud without providing evidence, filed lawsuits and called for recounts in a race […]
Garment workers on front line of Sri Lanka coronavirus outbreak
Colombo, Sri LankaThomson Reuters Foundation When women at a Sri Lankan garment factory started to develop coughs and fevers, few took it seriously – the South Asian island had few cases of the coronavirus and the onset of the rainy season meant colds were to be expected. Staff who fell ill saw the company doctor, […]
Nick Challies, son of well-known US evangelical blogger, dies at college
RNS Nick Challies, 20-year-old son of the evangelical blogger and author Tim Challies, has died. “In all the years I’ve been writing I have never had to type words more difficult, more devastating than these,” the elder Challies wrote in a blog post on Wednesday morning. “Yesterday the Lord called my son to himself – my dear […]
Origins Special: Who invented the US Electoral College?
As the world still awaits the result of the US election, in an article first published on The Conversation, US scholar PHILLIP J VANFOSSEN looks at the origins of the Electoral College system…
US election – How Trump’s strong play for Hispanic evangelicals helped him stun Biden in Florida
Washington DC, USRNS Democrats agonising over Joe Biden’s dramatic under-performance in Florida, a state that many wrongly projected would end up in the former Vice President’s column, have begun looking at why Hispanic voters, a majority of the population of Miami-Dade County, went soft on Biden in the Sunshine State and elsewhere. One answer, said Rev Gabriel […]