For the first time in its 82-year history, Miracle Hill Ministries will allow Catholics to serve as volunteers and employees in its vast network of homeless shelters, thrift stores and drug-recovery programs and as parents to foster children in its government-funded foster care agency.
Yonat Shimron - Religion News Service
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The Vanier model for living with the disabled takes root
At a new residential complex in North Carolina, graduate students and adults with developmental disabilities share living quarters and meet in prayer.
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For storied civil rights center, Highlander Center fire is an echo of the past
The local sheriff said the fire may have been intentionally set, after a “symbol connected to the white power movement” was found spray-painted in the parking lot. On April 4, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that white supremacy is a “persistent, pervasive threat” to U.S. security.
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A virtual reality tour of solitary confinement helps religious groups rally for a ban
There is a growing awareness about solitary confinement, a practice affecting 60,000 to 100,000 people in U.S. prisons.
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In fight over Protestant-only foster agency, a lawsuit asks: Who is a Christian?
“It’s a pretty common belief here in the South that Catholics are not Christian.”
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ICE deports undocumented immigrant who left church sanctuary
After his arrest, Oliver-Bruno was moved from North Carolina to an ICE detention facility in Lumpkin Ga., and then to Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.
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Pastor and activist William J. Barber II wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
Earlier this year Barber resurrected the Poor People’s Campaign, first organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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For 40 days in 30 US cities, King’s Poor People’s Campaign lives again
The leaders take their inspiration from the biblical prophets who admonished leaders for policies that harmed the poor at the expense of the wealthy.
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In a show of contrition, Catholic dioceses begin long road of healing
The dioceses of Washington, D.C.; St. Louis; Seattle; St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Richmond, Va., are planning or have already held services focused on repentance and atonement.
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A campaign to blitz the country with ‘In God We Trust’ laws takes root
This year, five state legislatures passed laws mandating that every public school prominently display the U.S. motto, “In God We Trust.” The addition of Arkansas, which passed such a law in 2017, brings to six the number of states with public school mandates, including Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana and Tennessee.