Wednesday's News & Ideas - 1/29/2025
- Supporting refugee ministries
- Study on religious nationalism
- Pardons for abortion protesters
- Religious sect convicted of manslaughter
- Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith
- The Year of the Snake
Trump’s first week sends shudders through immigrant churches and ministries*
Christianity Today: The president plunged communities into fear, upended life for thousands of refugees and moved to stop charities from helping immigrants already in the US.
Religion News Service: Faith groups say they’ll help refugees despite Trump order. But they’ll need help.
Comparing levels of religious nationalism around the world
Pew Research Center: A new study reveals that, by global standards, the U.S. has a relatively low level of religious nationalism. But it stands out from other high-income countries.
Trump pardons 23 abortion protestors, some of them in jail
Baptist Press: President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning 23 pro-lifers convicted of federal crimes for blocking entrances to abortion clinics before the overturning of Roe v. Wade, some of whom were serving prison sentences.
14 convicted in death of girl for depriving her of insulin*
The New York Times: The parents of Elizabeth Rose Struhs, who died in 2022, were part of a small religious sect in Australia that believed that medical care went against their faith.
Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith*
The Christian Century: Journalist Joseph Berger documents the writer’s work, his activism and the belief in God that he never fully renounced.
The Spark
Celebrate Lunar New Year with 7 snake facts
In honor of the Year of the Snake,* Scientific American shares about the strange anatomy and evolution of these slithery reptiles.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
