Korean churches welcome news of US and North Korean summit
Korean church leaders have welcomed news of a planned summit between officials from the US and North Korea, and US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un by May. Rev Haekjib Ra, chair of the National Council of Churches of Korea’s Reconciliation and Reunification Committee, said in comments published by […]
Billy Graham, mourned as a man of God, is laid to rest near his childhood home
RNS Billy Graham was celebrated as a man of God at a funeral that overlooked his childhood home and closed a chapter of American evangelical history. For many evangelicals around the world, Rev Graham – who died last week at age 99 – was their faith’s embodiment and ideal. Eulogists, including all five of his […]
US: ROBERT JEFFRESS ON GOD, TRUMP AND NORTH KOREA – A PASTOR EXPLAINS HIS POLITICS
Texas-based pastor, Robert Jeffress, made headlines around the world last week when he said God had given President Donald Trump “authority to take out Kim Jong-Un”. BOBBY ROSS, Jr, of Religion News Service, meets the controversial preacher…
Nine Catholic groups to divest from coal, oil and gas in a bid to fight climate change
RNS Nine Catholic organisations from around the world have announced they are divesting their savings from coal, oil and gas companies in a joint bid to fight climate change. Religious orders and dioceses from the US and Italy made the announcement Wednesday, ahead of international negotiations due this month on implementing the Paris Agreement on […]
IMMIGRATION: IN THE US, SANCTUARY FOR THE UNDOCUMENTED COMES WITH LEGAL CONSEQUENCES
KIMBERLY WINSTON, of Religion News Service, reports on some of the questions facing those faith communities involved with the “sanctuary movement”, aimed at sheltering undocumented migrants in the US…
President Trump’s executive order calls for report into honour killings in US
RNS As part of its goal to protect “the nation from foreign terrorist entry”, President Trump’s new executive order calls for a report on the number of honor killings carried out in the US by “foreign nationals.” Civil liberties advocates say the focus on honor killings, which a 2014 Justice Department reports shows make up […]
US President Donald Trump issues revised travel ban for six majority-Muslim countries
RNS/USA Today US President Donald Trump took a second swing at his temporary travel ban, this time targeting travelers from six majority Muslim countries and crafting his executive order in ways intended to survive challenges in US courts. The new ban, which goes into effect on 16th March, no longer restricts travel from Iraq, one of […]
ESSAY: REACTIONS TO TRUMP ARE MOSTLY OVERBLOWN AND UNHELPFUL
MAL FLETCHER, writing from London, argues that, rather than demonstrating against the very idea of President Trump, it’s time for people on all sides of politics in the US – and beyond – to engage as proactively as possible with the issues…
ESSAY: US EVANGELICALS CAN NO LONGER SPEAK AS ONE VOICE
In an article first published by Religion News Service, JOHN FEA, who teaches American history at Messiah College in the US, says the current divide in views among Americans evangelicals is nothing new but adds that the split over President Trump’s immigration policies does reveal some “serious problems”…
ESSAY: THE ART OF MORAL ALTERNATIVES
Against the backdrop of global protests against US President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration policies, NILS VON KALM argues that protesting against something is never enough and that to really bring about change, people need to be shown a better alternative…