COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (RNS) — Last month, dozens of activists packed into a small room in the Post Falls library for a board meeting of the Community Library Network. Some came to defend the library, but video of the meeting suggests most were there to condemn administrators for allowing children […]
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(RNS) — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty is acquiring the Center for Faith, Justice, and Reconciliation in a move its leaders say will help them broaden efforts to support a more universal range of religious freedoms in the country. The 87-year-old coalition of 15 Baptist denominations, including both […]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia bill described by supporters as a tool to protect religious freedom and labeled a “license to discriminate” by LGBTQ rights advocates is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Jim Justice. The “Equal Protection for Religion Act,” wasn’t expected to receive a vote […]
KADAPA, India (RNS) — A 10 years ago the residents of Kesalingayapalli, a village in the south Indian point out of Andhra Pradesh, succeeded in making a temple to the Hindu god Ram, modeling their dwelling as a spot “rooted in Indian society and tradition.” 3 yrs afterwards, all through […]
(RNS) — The Democratic Countrywide Committee has handed a resolution condemning “white spiritual nationalism,” declaring that “theocracy is incompatible with democracy and spiritual independence.” The resolution was approved over the weekend as Democratic Occasion officials collected in Philadelphia for their wintertime conference. The resolution, place forward by additional than 30 co-sponsors […]
(RNS) — Rami Nsour, an advocate for the incarcerated, has viewed firsthand how difficult it can be for all those getting held in California’s jails and prisons to apply their faith. As his purchasers are transferred from a person facility to one more, he explained, they have to adhere to […]