Gutiérrez’s liberation theology put the poor as its priority and exerted great influence on doctrine and the history of the church in Latin America. His 1971 book “A Theology of Liberation” had a profound impact by proposing a faith based on social justice focused on the poor and positing that poverty “is a scandalous state, an attack on human dignity, and therefore, contrary to the will of God.” (AP News)
Read MoreThe game is facing growing accusations that it has become a playground for child predators and inappropriate content, failing to moderate illegal content or protect its millions of young users. (Titcomb, The Telegraph)
Read MoreFears that an eruption of violence is very or somewhat likely are shared across the political divide by 27 percent of American adults, including 30 percent of women and 24 percent of men, YouGov found in a survey of 1,266 registered voters on October 18-21. (Charter, The Times UK)
Read MoreLast week, an Army veteran and father of three was found guilty of praying silently in a large abortion buffer zone in England and fined the equivalent of $11,700, Alliance Defending Freedom UK reported. “This is a legal turning point of immense proportions. A man has been convicted today because of the content of his thoughts—his prayers to God—on the public streets of England,” Smith-Connor’s attorney Jeremiah Igunnubole said in response to the ruling. (Chandler, Baptist Press/Christianity Today)
Read MoreAccording to a report published Tuesday by Physicians for Human Rights, there’s been a “massive influx” of sexual violence in eastern DRC in recent years. When group representatives interviewed local clinicians about patients, they heard harrowing stories. (Emanuel, NPR)
Read MoreTesco will go ahead with seven-day opening of its only supermarket in the deeply religious Outer Hebrides, a decision critics have said puts “profit before the wellbeing of people”. The Stornoway store on the Isle of Lewis is believed to have been the only one in the retail giant’s UK empire not to open on the traditional Sabbath. (Merritt & Roberts, The Times UK)
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