Essay: The urgent need for a truth and healing commission on Indian boarding schools
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, says that while it’s painful to face the Quakers’ history of participation in these schools, “we cannot live our faith with integrity if we do not”…
Essay: Siding with peace in the Middle East
BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says, in an article first published on Religion News Service, that the future for Palestinians and Israelis is being erased each passing day…
Mike Johnson, pedigreed evangelical, suggests his election as US House Speaker ordained by God
Washington DC, USRNS After weeks of turmoil, House Republicans elected Representative. Mike Johnson on Wednesday as the new speaker of the House, an act the Louisiana congressman suggested was ordained by God. “I believe that Scripture, the Bible, is very clear: that God is the one who raises up those in authority,” Johnson said in […]
Republicans drop Jim Jordan’s US House speaker bid after third failed vote
Washington DC, USReuters Hardline conservative Republican Jim Jordan’s quest to become speaker of the US House of Representatives ended on Friday as his fellow Republicans revoked their support following a third, failed vote on the House floor. That means that the House until at least next week will remain unable to respond to President Joe […]
US leadership “holds the world together”, Biden says in bid for Ukraine, Israel funds
Updated: 12:30pm (AEDT)Washington DC, USReuters President Joe Biden launched a new mission on Thursday to convince Americans they should spend billions more on supporting Israel and Ukraine in their wars, arguing that only the US involvement can prevent global chaos. “American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep us, America, […]
US House passes bipartisan bill to avoid government shutdown
Washington DC, US Reuters The US House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on Saturday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by party hardliners for a partisan bill. Time remained short to avoid the federal government’s fourth partial shutdown in a decade, which will begin […]
Essay: US Congress needs to live up to its Christian protestations
The Most Rev JOHN STOWE, Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, Kentucky, asks whether US politicians really want Christian values to prevail?…
Essay: The latest US Census figures show the harm done by letting poverty programs expire
DAVID BECKMANN, coordinator of US church and ministry advocacy coalition Circle of Protection, says – in an article first published on Religion News Service – that he success of COVID-era programs followed by an immediate reversal after they ended makes clear that the persistence of poverty is a political choice…
US lawmakers make new push for expanded drone shootdown authority
Washington DC, USReuters A group of bipartisan US lawmakers said on Monday they are making a new push to expand government authority to detect and destroy drones that could pose security threats. Representatives Chrissy Houlahan, Mike Gallagher, Troy Carter and Mike Johnson introduced legislation that would allow state and local law enforcement and critical infrastructure […]
Essay: Poverty is a lethal epidemic. It’s time to address it
In an article first published on Religion News Service, Rev WILLIAM J BARBER II and Rev LIZ THEOHARIS, co-chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, say politicians who fail to act on poverty in the US are complicit in the deaths of thousands…