UN chief calls Desmond Tutu “an inspiration to generations”
Last updated 9.30amJohannesburg, South AfricaAP Reactions to the death Sunday of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu: “Archbishop Tutu was a towering global figure for peace and an inspiration to generations across the world. During the darkest days of apartheid, he was a shining beacon for social justice, freedom […]
Essay: The US Senate needs to confirm Biden’s new international religious freedom ambassador now
In an article published by Religion News Service, KNOX THAMES, who served as the special adviser for religious minorities in the Obama and Trump administrations, writes about why the US Senate should confirm Rashad Hussain, President Joe Biden’s nominee for ambassador-at-large…
Unusual secrecy attends Biden’s first meeting with Pope Francis as President
Washington DC, US/Rome, ItalyRNS When President Ronald Reagan visited St John Paul II in June of 1982 with first lady Nancy Reagan, the press trailed the distinguished group as the pontiff squired the couple and their staffers to the Vatican’s inner sanctums and looked on, according to a New York Times reporter, as “a group […]
Biden, Kadhimi seal agreement to end US combat mission in Iraq
Washington DC, USReuters US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday sealed an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after US troops were sent to the country. Coupled with Biden’s withdrawal of the last American forces in Afghanistan by […]
Rift on Communion policy as US Catholic bishops open meeting
AP Divisions flared quickly on Wednesday as US Catholic bishops opened a national meeting highlighted by a sensitive agenda item – whether to take initial steps toward a possible rebuke of politicians, including President Joe Biden, who receive Communion while supporting abortion rights. Some said the issue was so important and contentious that all the […]
Biden marks Tulsa race massacre in emotional, graphic speech
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USAP An emotional President Joe Biden marked the 100th anniversary of the massacre that destroyed a thriving Black community in Tulsa, declaring Tuesday that he had “come to fill the silence” about one of the nation’s darkest – and long suppressed – moments of racial violence. “Some injustices are so heinous, so horrific, […]
At inaugural prayer service in the US, a message of renewal and ‘repairing the breach’
Washington DC, USRNS Dozens of faith leaders participated in a virtual edition of the interfaith National Prayer Service hosted by the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, gathering digitally for a service that articulated a spiritual endorsement of diversity, healing and “repairing the breach.” As both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris watched with […]