Donations to Religious Institutions Fall as Values Change
Source: The New York Times By ALINA TUGEND It used to be that many people gave to their particular house of worship to get a prominent pew or extra blessings. […]
Catholic parish’s bulletin says Democratic voters are doomed to hell, Clinton is satanic
Source: The San Diego Union Tribune By Joshua Stewart Between requests for prayers for the sick and a notice for an upcoming chastity luncheon, a newsletter from a Catholic church in […]
Harvard soccer team suspended over sex comments
Source: BBC Harvard University has suspended its men’s soccer team after players made sexual comments about members of the women’s team. A document uncovered by Harvard’s student newspaper included ratings of the attractiveness of female players as well as sexually explicit comments. University President Drew Faust called the behaviour “appalling”. […]
Child marriage is rare in the U.S., though this varies by state
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MCCLENDON AND ALEKSANDRA SANDSTROM2 COMMENTS About 57,800 minors in the U.S. ages 15 to 17 were married as of 2014. That might sound like a lot of people (and it is), but it’s also just five of every 1,000 in that age group, a […]
An Evangelical Makes Her Case For Clinton
Source: Politico Magazine By KATIE ZAVADSKI NEW YORK—Earlier this summer, Deborah Fikes, a former executive adviser of the World Evangelical Alliance, which represents some 600 million evangelical Christians in 129 […]
Mass exodus from Mormonism? LDS stats paint a different picture
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune By PEGGY FLETCHER STACK The optics tell a stunning story of Mormon decline — or so many observers insist. Photos of Mormons gathering en masse […]
Trump Campaign Scrambles To Lock Down Utah
Source: BuzzFeed News By McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter SALT LAKE CITY — When Mike Pence took the stage for a campaign rally last week in this most improbable of 2016 […]
Black Church Burned in Mississippi, With ‘Vote Trump’ Scrawled on Side
Source: The New York Times By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and RICHARD FAUSSET GREENVILLE, Miss. — A predominantly African-American church here was badly burned on Tuesday evening, with the words “Vote Trump” […]
6 ways Trump could win
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump’s path to 270 electoral votes remains precarious — but with some breaks, he can get there. Trump’s campaign has made clear exactly what its targets are. […]
D.C. Council gives initial approval to a bill to let terminally ill patients end their lives
Source: The Washington Post By Fenit Nirappil The D.C. Council on Tuesday gave initial approval to legislation that would allow physicians to prescribe fatal drugs to terminally ill residents in […]
Faith leaders ask Clinton not to ignore black church concerns
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) Two dozen African-American Christian leaders have delivered an open letter to Hillary Clinton asking her to defend the right to oppose abortion and gay […]
After Trump, an evangelical examination of conscience?
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL FILE – In this Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016 file photo, Jerry Falwell, Jr., left, president of Liberty… Read more Evangelicals, deeply divided over Donald Trump, are wrestling with what the tumultuous 2016 election will mean for their future. His candidacy has put a spotlight […]
Judaism’s greatest mystical text ‘predicts Trump victory,’ Israel GOP head reveals
Citing an unnamed ultra-Orthodox expert on the seminal ‘Zohar’ work, Marc Zell says Trump campaign staffers in US were ‘amazed’ at the news By Times of Israel staff November 2, 2016 Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, […]
Orlando Shooter Omar Mateen’s Wife Speaks Out: ‘I Am Human’
Source: Time By Melissa Chan The wife of Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen broke her silence since her husband’s deadly rampage in June, insisting in her first media interview that she was “unaware” of his plans and that she has been left broken by the tragedy. Noor Salman, 30, told the […]
Donald Trump More Trustworthy Than Hillary Clinton, Poll Finds
Source: Time By Melissa Chan More voters trust Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, according to a new tracking poll released Wednesday. The Republican presidential nominee leads his Democratic rival on honesty and trustworthiness by eight points in a Washington Post-ABC News poll, which found 46% of likely voters saying Trump is […]
President Obama Criticizes FBI Chief on Disclosure of New Hillary Clinton Email Probe
Source: Time By Maya Rhodan “We don’t operate on leaks. We operate based on concrete decisions that are made,” Obama said President Obama offered his first public comments on the FBI […]
US election: The state that defines the American divide
Source: BBC By Katty KayPresenter, BBC World News Derwin Gray won’t say which way he is voting. The charismatic, former NFL-playing pastor of Transformation Church doesn’t want to upset the carefully choreographed racial balance of his evangelical congregation in Charlotte, North Carolina. But as an African-American man, he sympathises with black […]
FBI Releases 17-Year-Old Records From a Bill Clinton Presidential Pardon Investigation
Source: Time By Stephen Braun (WASHINGTON) — Only days before the presidential election, the FBI released a 17-year-old archive of documents from a long-closed investigation into Bill Clinton’s presidential pardon of a fugitive financier, prompting questions from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign about its timing. The release comes amid the bureau’s controversially […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim leader denounces extremism, promotes tolerance
Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad touring western Canada this month By Jason Warick, CBC News Posted: Nov 01, 2016 Play Media Caliph Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad denounces extremism 3:20 Muslim leaders are not doing enough to denounce extremism, says the head of the world’s Ahmadiyya Muslims. “We need the message of […]
Trump Presents Dilemma For Evangelical Women, Once Reliable GOP Voters
Source: NPR By SARAH MCCAMMON White evangelicals are reliable Republican voters. They also have a long history of demanding that politicians exemplify character and morality in public life. So for many, […]