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Regina A. Johnson- Putting Her Talents To Use In Multiple Fields
Every person from their birth is gifted a special skill set, something they excel it. And for every person, it is different. While some people’s expertise lies in teaching, others are good at playing sports. For some people, painting is where they perform par...
Coronavirus Will Affect 68% of Easter Observers’ Spending Plans this Year – WalletHub
Around 68 percent of Americans who observe Easter say their Easter spending will be affected by the coronavirus this year, according to WalletHub’s new Coronavirus Easter Survey, released today. This survey, which follows WalletHub’s report on the State Economies Most...
How To Attract A Woman
It’s not that simple to attract a girl or a woman; lots of guys and men agree with that. But after all, they only choose partners who attract them with their appearance and inner world, those who can win their heart. The fact that men can’t sometimes take a chance to...
Good Gospel Playlist: Carissa Sharon Oyakhilome is the Princess of Loveworld
Loveworld Music and Arts Ministry (LMAM) has a brand-new star on the rise and her name is Sharon Carissa Oyakhilome. Carissa Sharon Oyakhilome, more popularly known as CSO is gospel royalty. The singing sensation who is behind the mega-hit 'Holy Spirit', has become a...
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Speaker Johnson says clergy protesting deportations have no right to ‘get in the face’ of DHS agents
WASHINGTON (RNS) — House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed religious freedom concerns on Wednesday (Oct. 29) about clergy protesting mass deportations being shot with pepper rounds and pepper bullets by Department of Homeland Security agents, saying the agents have...
Gaza ceasefire tested as Israel and Hamas exchange fire and blame
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli army launched a barrage of attacks in Gaza on Tuesday as tensions with Hamas grew two weeks into a fragile ceasefire, and the militant group responded by saying it would delay handing over the body of a hostage. At least...
Pope urges Catholic teachers to focus less on professional outcomes, more on spiritual lives
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV urged Catholic teachers on Tuesday to focus less on pre-professional outcomes and more on educating students to have rich spiritual lives and use technology in ways that keep human dignity front and center. Leo issued a set of marching orders...
Photos of the Week: Peace meetings, RNS symposium
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‘Exvangelical’ women are leaving their churches. But is it decline or renewal?
(RNS) — Taylor Yoder, who grew up in an evangelical Christian family in southern Pennsylvania, was active in her church and its youth group. But as a young adult, she found that friendships with LGBTQ co-workers at a Starbucks caused her to reexamine what she’d been...
In Newark, a Nation of Islam heir speaks against war in Gaza, Trump
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) — As Newark Mayor Ras Baraka accepted an award from the Muslim-American Ministry for Human Salvation on Sunday (Oct. 26), he praised how the Nation of Islam, a Black nationalist Islamic movement from which MAMHS was derived, left a mark on the city....
The Billy Graham Rule cost a New York man his job. Now he’s suing.
(RNS) — Paul Ostapa had a problem. In the summer of 2022, he was on the job as a heating and air conditioning technician in upstate New York with a couple of colleagues when one of them left, leaving him alone with a female co-worker. For years, he’d abided by the...
Latino pastors look to refit preaching and pastoral care to trauma of mass deportations
MONROVIA, Calif. (RNS) — In a Home Depot parking lot beside a freeway on-ramp in this city northeast of Los Angeles, a woman sang to a small crowd in Spanish over her band’s rocking cumbia rhythm, “How I love my people, for being more than brave.” Across the...
Sermons urge youth to take part in public affairs in Morocco after wave of protests
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Worshippers sat shoeless on the red-carpeted floor of a mosque in Morocco’s capital in silence, listening to a preacher in a raised pulpit reading a government-written sermon urging parents to involve their children in public affairs. The sermon,...
Immigration crackdown stokes fear and solidarity at a Catholic church in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The imposing Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic church a short drive from the White House, was intended to be a sanctuary for worshippers. Now, its mostly immigrant congregation is steeped in fear. Church leaders say more than 40 members of their...
Jen Hatmaker on ditching evangelical scripts: ‘That system robbed us all’
(RNS) — Jen Hatmaker married at 19 and for 26 years lived what seemed an enviable evangelical life. She had a pastor husband, five kids, a home renovation TV show and a thriving career as an author and women’s ministry leader. Then it all fell apart. In her new...
Tree of Life rabbi and Mother Emanuel pastor: 7 years of a friendship forged in tragedy
NEW YORK (RNS) — When the Rev. Eric Manning arrived in New York for a recent speaking engagement, a friendly face was waiting for him. As he walked off the plane, there was his friend, Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers. “Somebody might say, ‘it’s not a big deal,” said...