Essay: Do homeless people have constitutional rights?
In an article first published on Religion News Service, author KEVIN NYE says that overwhelmingly, faith groups who filed briefs in the US Supreme Court case Johnson v Grants Pass did so against criminalising homelessness…
Forced relocation or safe haven?: US cities push the homeless to live in tent camps
CAREY L BIRON, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how some US cities tackling a surge of street homelessness are offering official camps while penalising people sleeping in public elsewhere…
After Roe v Wade: In the US, anti-abortion movement faces internal divisions
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that in the wake of the Dobbs decision, abortion foes hope to ban abortion where they can and find ‘creative approaches’ like shareholder activism to punish abortion rights supporters…
World Council of Churches issues call to combat “exclusion, stigmatisation and criminalisation” of migrants and refugees
The World Council of Churches has called for the international community to combat “xenophobic and racist discourses that seek to exclude, stigmatise and criminalise migrants and refugees” and urged churches to promote inclusiveness of migrants and refugees. In a statement issued from its week-long meeting in Uppsala, Sweden, the WCC’s executive committee said in several […]