Thursday’s News & Ideas - 2/5/2026
- Different types of protests
- Muslims renewing NY
- Canada’s new archbishop
- Reprieve for OH’s Haitians
- Rafah crossing opens
- Murder of The Washington Post
Inside one Minneapolis church, a different type of protest*
The New York Times: In the weeks since ICE agents began conducting operations across the city, Westminster Presbyterian has given its members a place to protest on their own terms.
‘New York is constantly being renewed’: How Muslim creatives are changing the city’s cultural landscape
The Guardian: From the election of Zohran Mamdani to buzzy restaurants and nightlife, Muslim New Yorkers are creating a growing imprint on the city.
From southern India to Canada’s far north: New archbishop serves Indigenous Catholics
The Associated Press: Susai Jesu is now an archbishop for northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. He’ll oversee ministry to about 49,000 Catholics, mostly Indigenous, dispersed across a region larger than Texas.
Bracing for ICE raids, Haitians get temporary reprieve*
Christianity Today: A federal judge on Monday extended deportation protections for Haitian immigrants. While they waited for the ruling, pastors in Springfield, Ohio, gathered and prayed.
Palestinians allowed in to Gaza and patients are evacuated to Egypt as the Rafah crossing reopens
The Associated Press: The reopening of the crossing marked a key step in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire but mostly a symbolic one, with few people allowed to travel and no goods allowed to pass through.
The Spark
The murder of The Washington Post
The mass layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper* special, The Atlantic says.
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