ESSAY: IT’S TIME TO REVIVE RELIGIOUS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, US commentator JOHN GEHRING, author and Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life, calls for a “revival of religious civil disobedience”…
ESSAY: WILL US CATHOLIC VOTERS MAKE JOE BIDEN THE NEXT PRESIDENT?
JOHN GEHRING, Catholic program director at Faith in Public Life and author of ‘The Francis Effect: A Radical Pope’s Challenge to the American Catholic Church’, looks at the possible appeal of former US Vice President Joe Biden to Catholic voters in the upcoming presidential election…
Faith is driving many Trump administration policies, says White House chief of staff
Washington, DCRNS White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney declared at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday that faith drives the Trump administration’s policy proposals, arguing that “the principles of our faith [are] being manifest” under the President’s watch. Also in attendance at the breakfast – a largely conservative religious gathering that meets annually […]
ESSAY: CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES EVANGELISING ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN EFFORT TO BRING BACK THE ‘NONES’
US academic KATHERINE DUGAN, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how Catholic missionaries are trying to connect with Millennials of no faith on college campuses…
POSTCARDS: HOW 15 MILLENNIAL COED CATHOLICS LIVE IN UNITY IN A NEW YORK BROWNSTONE
GINA RYDER, writing for Religion News Service, reports on life at Ford Hall in Manhattan…
Church leaders pray for Ethiopian Airlines crash victims as they grieve for clergy
Nairobi, KenyaRNS Amid shock and grief after the Ethiopian Airline crash, leaders from the world’s faith traditions gathered in Nairobi for a United Nations event, united in prayer on Monday for the 157 victims of the air disaster, among them a Roman Catholic nun and a Catholic and a Lutheran priest. Some 5,000 delegates to […]
Faith groups in Tijuana rise to meet needs of migrant caravan waiting at the border
RNS The bulk of the migrant caravan that started out from Central America this fall has reached the United States’ border with Mexico, and the city of Tijuana is overwhelmed by more than 6,000 people who have arrived, many hoping to gain political asylum in the United States. Central American migrants line up to eat […]