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James Lawson, pastor and nonviolent activist, dies at 95
James M. Lawson Jr., who made it his life’s work to create a nonviolent nation, died June 9 at age 95....
'Tense calm' at the border as migrant shelters brace for impact of Biden's asylum order
Leaders of Catholic organizations helping migrants at the US-Mexico border are denouncing President Joe Biden’s new asylum restrictions as shelter directors brace for its impact on conditions....
Bible societies mount effort to revive view of scripture as source of ancient wisdom
One of the biggest ever research projects into scripture is looking into how people use the Bible and what it means to them—an attempt to understand why, in a time when 90 percent of the world’s po...
New commission of religiously affiliated higher education aims to spark collaboration
A prominent association of colleges and universities in the United States has created a new commission of religious schools whose aim will be to share with their nonreligious counterparts the innov...
Ivory Coast splits with UMC but other African conferences slow to follow
After the United Methodist Church voted this spring to allow its clergy to marry same-sex couples and lifted its ban on ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy, Methodists around the world watched how the deno...
Faith-based agencies denounce Biden's executive order at the southern border
President Joe Biden signed an executive orde...