Emmett Till memorialised in monument that includes Chicago church
United StatesRNS For Rev Wheeler Parker, Jr, it was the moment he had long awaited and once could not have envisioned. The older cousin of Emmett Till, Parker is the sole remaining witness to the 1955 kidnapping of the Black teenager, who was dragged from his bed to face a lynching that galvanised the civil […]
At Tyre Nichols’ funeral in Memphis, Vice President Kamala Harris and Rev Al Sharpton among those praying and promising reform
United StatesRNS Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man fatally beaten by police officers after a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee, was mourned on Wednesday, the first day of Black History Month, in a funeral that featured messages of faith from Vice President Kamala Harris and Rev Al Sharpton. Delayed more than two hours by inclement […]
US President Joe Biden calls for unity at National Prayer Breakfast
Washington DC, USRNS Appealing to a form of camaraderie increasingly rare on Capitol Hill, US President Joe Biden lauded the power of faith in his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, calling for unity at an unusually intimate iteration of the annual religious gathering. President Joe Biden speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast, […]
Senator Chris Coons: This year’s National Prayer Breakfast in US is a “reset”
Washington DC, US RNS Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, an organiser of the National Prayer Breakfast in US which scheduled to take place on Thursday, believes this year’s iteration will be a “positive reset” for the controversial event and feature speeches from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Speaking to Religion News Service […]
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 […]
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 […]