A new report published by four prominent Catholic and evangelical organizations claims that around 1 in 12 Christians in the U.S. are vulnerable to deportation or live with a family member who could be deported by President Donald Trump’s administration, one of several data points religious leaders hope will alert Christians to the plight facing their fellow faithful. (Jenkins, Religion News Service)
Read MoreAs Bangladesh tries to rebuild its democracy and chart a new future for its 175 million people, a streak of Islamist extremism that had long lurked beneath the country’s secular facade is bubbling to the surface. (Mashal & Hasnat, The New York Times)
Read MoreAs a religious organization, the Catholic diocese in northwest Wisconsin doesn’t have to pay unemployment taxes.
But when the diocese’s social ministry arm asked for the same exemption, it was denied. Wisconsin said the work done by Catholic Charities and four nonprofit organizations it manages that help people with disabilities was primarily secular, even if the services were religiously motivated. (Groppe, USA Today)
Read MoreChurches and cathedrals across Britain have embraced a digital revolution, prompted by the Covid pandemic, which has seen thousands of services streamed in the past five years. Some online services have led people to convert to Christianity and even become priests. (Pepinster, Religion Media Centre)
Read More[There are] an estimated 534,000 Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans and Cubans ordered to return to their home countries no later than April 24, the result of the U.S. ending the humanitarian parole program that had granted the individuals safe refuge here while their home countries broil in gang violence, governmental upheaval, poverty, religious persecution and other ills. (Chandler, Baptist Press)
Read MoreForces and teachers across Britain have issued parents with a “periodic table of sinister emojis” said to be used by under-18s to surreptitiously discuss violence, sex and extremism. The plot of Adolescence involves the use of emojis by children to spread hidden messages about toxic masculinity and misogyny. (Sigsworth, The Telegraph)
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