Tuesday's News & Ideas - 2/8/2022
- Lost Black church cemeteries
- Benedict doesn’t apologize
- Air Force to pay victims of church shooting
- Israel’s divisions
- Arizona’s anti-discrimination bill
- Olympic ideals are fading
Black Baptists discover lost cemetery in Virginia
Christianity Today: African American church graveyards are disappearing. Can they be saved before it’s too late?
Pope Benedict concedes failings in new letter, but no apology for German abuse cases
National Catholic Reporter: Retired-pope’s legal team contests German report’s findings.
Air Force ordered to pay $230 million to victims of 2017 church shooting*
The New York Times: A federal judge on Monday ruled that the U.S. Air Force must pay survivors and families of the 26 people killed in the attack in Sutherland Springs, Texas, for its failure to report the gunman’s criminal history.
Israel isn’t divided by apartheid. It’s divided between democracy and tribalism.
Religion News Service: For decades, Israel has operated under two different ecosystems.
How Arizona’s new anti-discrimination bill aims to protect gay rights and religion
Deseret News: The “Equality and Fairness for All Arizonans” bill builds upon a Utah law passed in 2015.
The Spark
The Olympic ideal is about world peace. The Olympic reality is far from it.
As the Beijing Winter Games begin, hopes that international sport could help promote global peace are melting away, Vox says.
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