WASHINGTON — As winter approaches and the Omicron variant rattles the globe, President Biden will announce expansive plans to increase the country’s defenses against the coronavirus, including a campaign to convince Americans to get booster shots and a requirement that insurance companies cover the cost of home tests.Biden’s plans, which he is expected to unveil Thursday at…Continue Reading
Actor Jussie Smollett is facing a criminal trial this week in a case involving as many plot twists as featured on his former Fox music TV drama, “Empire.”The long-standing case, which began jury selection on Monday, stems from a Jan. 29, 2019, incident in which the actor reported to Chicago police that he was a…Continue Reading
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s senate approved an evangelical former justice minister nominated by President Jair Bolsonaro to fill a vacant position on the supreme court, in what is seen as a nod to the conservative religious movement that helped bring him to power. André Mendonça, 48, is Bolsonaro’s second pick to the 11-justice high…Continue Reading
Black Interfaith will examine interfaith efforts emerging out of diverse Black spaces and convene Black religious leaders, intellectuals, artists and activists to ask, “What would it look like to center the Black experience in the study and application of interfaith cooperation?” IFYC is pleased to announce a $1M award from the Henry Luce Foundation to…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses held a “family” celebration of Hanukkah at the White House Wednesday, with the first Jewish spouse of a vice president, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, joining in lighting the menorah. Speaking to more than 150 guests, including Jewish community leaders, Cabinet members, lawmakers…Continue Reading
(RNS) — In March 2012, Katy Attanasi, then an assistant professor of religion at Regent University in Virginia, was at home feeding her newborn son when she heard a knock at the door. On her stoop, she found a snow-dusted FedEx envelope from the university. Inside was a letter informing her that her faculty contract…Continue Reading
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Religious supporters and opponents of abortion rights demonstrated outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday (Dec. 1), giving voice to competing faith-rooted views as justices heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case that could upend decades of debate over abortion policy. The demonstrations began earlier that morning…Continue Reading
Sobrevivientes del tiroteo de la escuela secundaria Oxford de Michigan relataron los momentos angustiantes durante los momentos de terror que vivieron. Algunos se armaron con tijeras y escaparon por una ventana. Un querido jugador de fútbol y una estudiante de último año, entre las víctimas del tiroteo en Michigan Ethan Crumbley…Continue Reading
Lo anunciaron la canciller saliente, Angela Merkel, y su sucesor, Olaf Scholz, en medio del aumento de contagios en Alemania…Continue Reading
El papa Francisco aceptó la renuncia de Michel Aupetit al cargo de arzobispo de París, según anunció este jueves el Vaticano en un comunicado…Continue Reading