With child tax credit stance, US senator runs afoul of former faith allies
Washington DC, USRNS As US Democrats struggle to revive talks over the stalled Build Back Better bill, Senator Joe Manchin is facing pushback from a spectrum of religious groups frustrated by his position on the child tax credit – including conservative-leaning faith organisations whose concerns he has championed in the past. Debate over the Build […]
Essay: Build Back Better or quit? Time to choose
In an article published on Religion News Service, DIANE RANDALL, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation – a national, non-partisan Quaker lobby for peace, justice and the environment, says the Build Back Better plan is truly “ground-breaking”…
US lawmakers join faith leaders to voice support for ‘Build Back Better’ package
Washington DC, USRNS US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and several other Democratic lawmakers joined a group of mostly liberal-leaning religious leaders on Wednesday to voice faith-rooted support for federal legislation central to President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda. Pelosi, a Catholic who recently met with Pope Francis, invoked her faith while drawing attention to specific […]
Essay: Christians, it’s time to add infrastructure to the pro-life agenda
JOHN FEA, who teaches American history at Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, argues – in an article first published on Religion News Service, that a failure to pass US President Joe Biden’s infrastructrure bill would be a “massive moral failure” – and that should concern all Americans, but especially Christians…
Use COVID-19 to build back better, cities told
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation COVID-19 will not spell the end of world cities, which are set to grow further over the next decade, the United Nations said on Saturday, urging civic leaders to use the pandemic as a springboard to build better, more liveable urban centres. About 60 per cent of the global population is […]