Wednesday’s News & Ideas - 9/17/2025
- Accompanying immigrants
- Religiosity by state
- Church’s memorial to enslaved
- Greece’s private chapels
- Yusuf Islam memoir
- Women’s orchestra of Auschwitz
She came to her ICE check-in backed by an Episcopal bishop and 500 supporters
Religion News Service: As immigrants increasingly fear detention at ICE check-ins, many faith groups have doubled down on accompaniment strategies to support them at those appointments.
How religious is your state?
Pew Research Center: Select a state to see where it ranks on some key measures of religion.
Predominantly white church dedicates memorial to the enslaved who worked on its land
Religion News Service: “‘Forever in the Path’ calls us to renew our covenant to seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with our God,” said the church’s pastor.
A Greek island has 1,000 private chapels. Families maintain them for faith and community
The Associated Press: More than a thousand chapels dot the Greek island of Tinos. In a rare centuries-old tradition, the mostly simple, room-sized stone structures are painstakingly maintained by the ordinary families that own them.
Yusuf Islam wants to explain himself*
The New York Times: As Cat Stevens, he helped define the singer-songwriter. After converting to Islam, he became a lightning rod. His new memoir explores it all.
The Spark
How the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz survived the death camps
At Lit Hub, Anne Sebba writes on the multifaceted role of music amidst the horrors of the Holocaust
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