Black church tradition survives voting changes in US state of Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia, US AP Black church leaders in the US state of Georgia organised rallies Sunday in a push to get their congregants to vote – a longstanding tradition known as “souls to the polls” that is taking on greater meaning this year amid new obstacles to casting a ballot in the midterm elections. State […]
Calvin Butts, leader of Harlem’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73
United StatesRNS Rev Calvin O. Butts III, the senior pastor of New York’s historic Abyssinian Baptist Church, who followed in the footsteps of prominent Black ministers and paved his own path of leadership in education, health and political circles, died on Friday, his church announced. “It is with profound sadness, we announce the passing of […]
US midterms: Faith groups weigh the impact of abortion on the polls
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports that there is growing uncertainty surrounding how religious voters and others will engage with abortion policy as they head to the polls in the US midterms next month…
On MLK Day, Biden says Americans must commit to King’s work
Atlanta, Georgia, USAP Americans must commit to the unfinished work of Martin Luther King, Jr, delivering jobs and justice and protecting “the sacred right to vote, a right from which all other rights flow,” President Joe Biden said Monday. Martin Luther King Day is a moment when a mirror is held up to America, the […]
Raphael Warnock honoured with Four Freedoms award in ‘extra step’ for racial justice
RNS Senator Raphael Warnock, who continues to pastor his historic Atlanta church while serving as Georgia’s first Black US senator, has received the Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom of Worship Award in a ceremony focused on racial justice. “I really felt that the strength of his pastoral voice was unique,” Anne Roosevelt, grand-daughter of President Franklin Delano […]