Kamala Harris breaks barriers as America’s next Vice President
Washington DC, USReuters Kamala Harris made history on Saturday with her election as Joe Biden’s vice president, becoming the first woman, first Black American and first Asian American to win the second highest US office. Harris, 56, is widely seen as an obvious candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in 2024 should Biden, who will […]
Updated: US election – Biden wins US presidency, says “time to heal” a deeply divided nation
Updated: 2pm (AEDT)Wilmington, Delaware/Washington DC, USReuters President-elect Joe Biden declared it was “time to heal” America in his first speech after prevailing on Saturday in a bitter election, even as President Donald Trump refused to concede. Biden’s victory in the battleground state of Pennsylvania put him over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes he […]
Revive COVID-19 homeless scheme during winter, UK government urged
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As England enters a second COVID-19 lockdown, charities urged the government on Friday to revive a nationwide scheme to house rough sleepers over the winter, saying aid announced this week for homeless hotspots was not enough. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday the ‘Everyone In’ program had housed some 29,000 […]
Vatican sanctions cardinal in Poland cited in sex abuse case
Warsaw, PolandAP The Vatican has imposed sanctions on a prominent Polish cardinal, retired Archbishop Henryk Gulbinowicz, after he was accused of sexually abusing a seminarian and of covering up abuse in another case. The Vatican’s embassy in Poland said Friday that Gulbinowicz, the 97-year-old retired archbishop of Wroclaw, has been forbidden from using his bishop’s […]
Five faith facts about Whitney Houston, set to be inducted in Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
RNS Whitney Houston, one of the most famous names in pop music, will be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this weekend. Though she’s perhaps best known for such hits as Greatest Love of All and How Will I Know, Houston continues to have another claim to fame: Her 1996 The […]
Horrified by deadly attacks, French Muslims protect church
Paris, FranceAP As a French-born Muslim, Elyazid Benferhat’s stomach turned when he heard about a deadly Islamic extremist attack on a church in Nice. Then he decided to act. A self-described man of peace and pragmatism, Benferhat and a friend gathered a group of young Muslim men to stand guard outside their town’s cathedral for […]
US election: Evangelicals stick with Trump, see upside even if he loses
ELANA SCHOR and DAVID CRARY, of the Associated Press, report on how US evangelicals are responding to this week’s election…
Evangelical asylum-seekers stuck in Mexico hold prayer vigil for the US election
RNS Among those praying for the outcome of the 2020 presidential election is a group of asylum-seekers at an encampment in Matamoros, Mexico, right across the border from Brownville, Texas. More than 200 asylum-seekers, most from Central America, held an all-night prayer vigil on Tuesday, asking God to watch over the 2020 presidential election in the United […]
Trump wins white evangelicals, Catholics split – AP VoteCast
Washington DC/New York City, USAP President Donald Trump won support from about eight in 10 white evangelical Christian voters in his race for reelection, but Catholic voters split almost evenly between him and Democratic opponent Joe Biden, according to AP VoteCast. Trump’s strong hold on white evangelical voters illustrates the GOP’s enduring success with a […]