Welcoming the stranger: How one Chicago church is stepping up to help Afghan evacuees
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Warrenville, Illinois, is among churches willing to help incoming Afghan refugees…
In the US state of Texas, executions face delays over religious rights claims
Houston, Texas, USAP Executions in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state face delays amid legal questions over Texas’ refusal to allow spiritual advisers to touch inmates and pray aloud as condemned individuals are being put to death. It’s unclear when Texas may carry out another execution after the US Supreme Court’s decision to hear religious freedom claims […]
Essay: Caring for the environment has a long Catholic lineage – hundreds of years before Pope Francis
In an article first pubished on The Conversation, religious studies professor JOANNE M PIERCE, looks at the history of advocating for care of the Earth in the Catholic tradition…