Tuesday's News & Ideas - 4/18/2023
- TN clergy protest gun violence
- McCarrick charged with sex abuse
- SCOTUS on working Sundays
- Ghana’s controversial cathedral
- Antisemitism in US rises
- Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen
Tennessee clergy and their congregants march on state Capitol to protest gun violence*
Tennesean: Answering the call of the Rev. William Barber II, hundreds of Tennessee clergy and their congregants marched to the steps of Tennessee’s Capitol to protest gun violence and injustice in the state legislature.
Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged in Wisconsin with sex abuse
Associated Press: McCarrick was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he had sexually molested adults and children.
Supreme Court weighs clash of postal worker’s Sabbath and Sunday deliveries*
The New York Times: The justices have been receptive to claims of religious freedom and may take a broad view of a federal law that requires employers to “reasonably accommodate” workers’ religious practices.
Cathedral of scandals: How a presidential promise divided Ghana
Al Jazeera: The $400m state-funded church has become hugely controversial in Ghana even as the country pursues an IMF loan due to huge debt and economic woes.
Haredi Jews bear the brunt of antisemitic attacks, global report finds
Religion News Service: The report from Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League finds the number of physical attacks on Haredi Jews spiked in the US but declined in the UK, Germany, France, Canada and Argentina.
The Spark
Taco Bell’s Innovation Kitchen, the front line in the stunt-food wars
How did the chain outdo* Burger King’s Bacon Sundae, Pizza Hut’s hot-dog-stuffed crust, Cinnabon’s Pizzabon, and KFC’s fried-chicken-flavored nail polish? The New Yorker asks.
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