The company ran into financial woes as its debts mounted, but it says it intends to stay open and resolve its troubles within months. A group of the company’s original founders that own almost a third of Hooters’ U.S. locations, including about half of its biggest volume restaurants, plans to buy and operate more of the outlets, Hooters said in a news release. (Kurtenbach, AP News)
Read MoreThe U.S. Supreme Court appeared openly doubtful on Monday about Wisconsin's refusal to exempt Catholic Charities from making payments into the state's mandatory unemployment system. (Totenberg, NPR)
Read MoreA 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)
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