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California Baptists cut staff, citing decline in Cooperative Program Giving
By Bob Smietana — July 3, 2024
(RNS) — Overall giving to the SBC’s national funding program is down about 2%.
The Episcopal Church revises clergy misconduct protocols for fairness, transparency
By Kathryn Post — July 3, 2024
After Morris allegations, Texas legislators vow to expand statutes of limitations on abuse
By James Russell — July 2, 2024
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Presbyterian Church (USA) votes to divest from Israel bonds
By Yonat Shimron — July 1, 2024
(RNS) — On Monday, the denomination also passed a resolution denouncing Christian Zionism.
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Roe v. Wade didn’t fall in one day. It collapsed over a decade of change.
By Emily D. Crews — July 1, 2024
(RNS) — A new book details how an attempt to soften abortion politics started an all-out assault on reproductive rights.
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Episcopal presiding bishop-elect plans simpler installation, citing ‘carbon footprint’
By Adelle M. Banks — July 1, 2024
(RNS) — ‘With a simple service at the Church Center that will include everyone via livestream, we can care for God’s creation by reducing our collective carbon footprint,’ Bishop Sean Rowe said in an announcement.
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Thousands of faith leaders, union members, activists rally for poor
By Jack Jenkins — June 29, 2024
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'It is wrong for the highest court in the land to criminalize homelessness,' said the Rev. Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign.
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Mother Mary P. Patterson, preserver of Church of God in Christ history, dies at 83
By Adelle M. Banks — June 28, 2024
(RNS) — Patterson’s denomination called her ‘a tireless crusader for preserving the Church Of God In Christ Heritage and that of Pentecostal-Holiness around the world.’
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Brazilian Christian groups oppose bill punishing abortion similarly to homicide
By Eduardo Campos Lima — June 28, 2024
SÃO PAULO (RNS) — 'Being against abortion, however, cannot be confused with the desire to see the woman who practices it behind bars," said one statement from a group of Catholic priests.
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Teaching the Bible in Oklahoma
By Mark Silk — June 28, 2024
(RNS) — Or at least, its 'historical context.'
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Calvin University board charged with examining faculty dissent
By Ethan Meyers — June 27, 2024
(RNS) — At its meeting earlier this month, the Christian Reformed Church of North America instructed the board to bring a progress report on the confessional-difficulty gravamen to next year's denominational meeting.
Violence interrupters increase the peace for all of us
By Bridget Moix — June 26, 2024
(RNS) — Rather than cutting funding, Congress should invest more in community violence intervention programs.
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Sean Rowe, leader of Episcopalians in Penn., NY, elected next presiding bishop
By Adelle M. Banks — June 26, 2024
(RNS) — Rowe, who will be the 28th presiding bishop, has been bishop of the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania since 2007 and bishop provisional of Western New York since 2019.
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Pro-life takes on new meaning in the cancer center
By Karen Swallow Prior — June 26, 2024
(RNS) — It’s not just bumper stickers and memes, protests and op-eds.
Why the swing state faith voters who really matter in 2024 aren’t evangelicals
By Bob Smietana and Jack Jenkins — June 25, 2024
(RNS) — MAGA evangelicals grab all the headlines. But it’s swing state faith voters — Catholics, mainliners and Black Protestants — who will likely decide the election.
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