Terry Wildman hopes his new Indigenous translation of the New Testament will help Christians and Indigenous peoples read it again in a fresh way.
Emily McFarlan Miller - Religion News Service
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Churches are preparing for a (touch-free) pandemic Ash Wednesday
The ashes—while perhaps the most visible part of Ash Wednesday observances—aren’t the most important.
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Chicago’s activist priest Fr. Michael Pfleger steps aside amid past child abuse allegation
The Rev. Michael Pfleger has temporarily stepped down from his ministry leading the Roman Catholic Faith Community of St. Sabina amid allegations of sexual abuse of a minor more than 40 years ago.
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117th Congress is mostly Christian—and Catholics are overrepresented
The 117th session of Congress got off to a testy start on Sunday, including an opening prayer from an ordained member whose pairing of “A-woman” with the traditional “Amen” raised both hackles and questions about the meaning of the word.
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Who will President Joe Biden listen to on faith matters?
Joe Biden will likely bring a more formal and interfaith approach to religious engagement, closer to the model forged by Bush and Obama. Here are a number of faith leaders Biden will likely end up consulting.
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Open Doors warns of ‘rise of the surveillance state’ as North Korea tops watch list again
This year, the Christian watchdog organization is highlighting the “rise of the surveillance state” and its impact on Christians and Muslims in China along with its 2019 World Watch List, released Wednesday (Jan. 15).
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Pompeo: All faiths will have ‘something to say’ on forthcoming peace plan
Pompeo’s remarks came Monday (March 18) during a phone briefing with a small group of media outlets as he was leaving for a five-day trip to Beirut, Jerusalem and Kuwait City.
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Two years after Trump’s travel ban, faith-based refugee groups struggle
World Relief’s legal service and educational programs continue to grow even as layoffs have continued in its refugee resettlement programs.
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Catholic school apologizes after clips emerge of encounter between students and Native American activist
Several clips of the encounter circulating on social media show a small group of Native American drummers, who were in Washington for the Indigenous People’s March, being surrounded by a much larger band of teenagers.
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Researchers find link between Trump tweets and spike in anti-Muslim hate
Müller and Schwarz examined publicly accessible data such as the weekly number of anti-Muslim hate crimes recorded by the FBI in their paper, “Making America Hate Again? Twitter and Hate Crime Under Trump.”