Friday’s News & Ideas - 11/21/2025
- Charts on US religious affiliation
- Women in male-led faiths
- Immigrant students dwindle
- ICE in Charlotte
- Caribbean slave reparations
- Wrongful imprisonment
If the U.S. had 100 people: Charting Americans’ religious affiliations
Pew Research Center: If the U.S. had 100 people, 62 of them would be Christians.
As US debates gender roles, some women in male-led faiths dig in on social and political issues
The Associated Press: Outspoken women from the Catholic Church and the ranks of conservative evangelicals are engaging with gusto in ongoing political and social debates even as their faiths maintain longstanding rules against women serving as priests or senior pastors.
Immigrant student enrollment is dwindling at schools across the US amid immigration crackdowns
The Associated Press: From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families.
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities’ actions to aid immigrants
Religion News Service: As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
Caribbean slavery reparations body decries claims it aims to ‘break UK Treasury’
The Guardian: On first official visit to UK, group calls for mutually beneficial program to clean up “mess” left by colonialism.
The Spark
George Bell served 24 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he’s learning to live again.
After a quarter century behind bars, he was exonerated* for the 1996 crime and received the largest payout ever from New York City. But money can’t buy back all that time, Esquire says.
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