Friday's News & Ideas - 7/2/2021
- Pope to meet Indigenous survivors
- Hilton hotel over mosque
- NCR divests from fossil fuels
- Religious Jew on Zionism
- Alice Neel’s paintings
- Danger of virus variants
Pope Francis to meet Indigenous survivors of Canadian schools abuses
The Guardian: First Nations, Metis and Inuit groups to travel to Vatican amid calls for papal apology over children’s deaths.
Hilton hotel to be built atop demolished Uyghur mosque
Religion News Service: The plans have been met with outrage and condemnation from various Muslim groups.
National Catholic Reporter board divests from fossil fuels
Earthbeat: The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company has separated its multimillion-dollar investment portfolio from financial holdings in the fossil fuel sector.
How a deeply religious Jew became one of Israel’s leading anti-occupation activists*
Haaretz: In his new book on religious Zionism, Mikhael Manekin argues that the emergence of a Jewish supremacy movement within his community shows how far it has strayed from the essence of the Torah.
Encountering Alice Neel’s paintings of mothers while pregnant*
Christian Century: Her complex portraits reveal an alchemy of desire, pain, power and weakness.
The Spark
The 3 simple rules that underscore the danger of Delta
Vaccines are still beating the variants, but the unvaccinated world is being pummeled, The Atlantic says.
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