Pro-Palestinian encampments spring up on more US college campuses
New York, US Reuters Pro-Palestinian students have set up tent encampments at more campuses across the US to protest Israel’s incursion into Gaza, after mass arrests at similar demonstrations at a handful of mostly East Coast colleges in recent days. The expanding protests include plans by a coalition of Jewish groups opposing Israel’s actions to […]
Biden praises Black churches and says the world would be a different place without their example
Columbia, South Carolina, US AP President Joe Biden on Sunday extolled the existence of Black churches, saying the world would be a different place if they were not around to show people the “power of faith” during times of darkness. The Democratic President spoke at St John Baptist Church on the final day of a two-day visit […]
Peer education: A new Anne Frank Center aims to reshape racism through Holocaust understanding
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports from Columbia in South Carolina on the opening of North America’s first permanent Anne Frank Center…
RELIGION IN SPACE: FROM APOLLO 8 TO SPACE IL – HOW SPACE TRAVELLERS HAVE TAKEN THEIR FAITH BEYOND THE EARTH
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER and JACK JENKINS, writing for Religion News Service, look at how Earth’s space explorers have expressed their faith in space…