Friday's News & Ideas - 5/1/2020
- Poll: Faith stronger in pandemic
- Keeping time in a pandemic
- Not returning to ‘normal’
- Black churches & digital divide
- Religious freedom in India
- Smuggling PPE
Few Americans say their house of worship is open, but a quarter say their faith has grown amid pandemic
Pew Research: One-quarter of U.S. adults overall (24%) say their faith has become stronger because of the coronavirus pandemic, while just 2% say their faith has become weaker.
How do we keep time during a pandemic?*
Christian Century: When all days seem alike, maybe the best unit of measure is love.
Same storm, different boats: Vatican looks at ways to help all survive
Crux: Pope Francis and his COVID-19 response commission want to see religious, economic and social life resume, but they question the wisdom of hoping for a return to a “normal” that left so many people struggling.
Black churches, via phones and Facebook, bridging digital divide amid COVID-19
Religion News Service: With issues of access and technical ability among some congregants, and a pandemic that has closed their church doors and scattered congregations, African Americans have been scrambling to sustain crucial connections to their houses of worship.
Religious freedom in India takes ‘drastic turn downward,’ U.S. commission says
NPR: In its annual report, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) says the Indian government's enactment last year of the Citizenship Amendment Act discriminated against Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
The Spark
Confessions of a PPE smuggler
A journey into the desperate world* of ordinary citizens trying to get personal protective equipment to health care workers -- against hospitals’ wishes, The New Republic reports.
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