gun rights

Report details discrimination faced by American Muslims

By Joseph Hammond — April 29, 2021
(RNS) — The report, titled ‘Resilience in the Face of Hate: Civil Rights Report 2021,’ found a 9% increase in complaints in 2020, even as hate crimes fell by 20%.

Weekend Plug-in: June 12, 2020

By Bobby Ross Jr. — June 12, 2020
(RNS) — Guns at church, the rituals of dying and other top headlines from this week in religion news.

Gun control group starts faith-driven push ahead of election

By Elana Schor — May 12, 2020
NEW YORK (AP) — A leading gun control advocacy group has enlisted more than a dozen religious leaders to boost voter turnout this fall in support of candidates who support measures to prevent gun violence.

Souls and the guns of America

By Martin E. Marty — October 10, 2017
Let me be ecumenical, interracial, and multi-classy by noting that “everybody” who prosecutes the culture wars wields symbols of awareness of their losses.

A consistently pro-life ethic should include gun control

By Laura Turner — October 7, 2015
(RNS) My rights don't matter as much as another person's life.

Did gun control prevent Jews from stopping the Holocaust?

By Lauren Markoe — February 6, 2013
(RNS) Many American Jews and others are fervently rebutting a claim made by gun rights activists: that gun control kept firearms from European Jewry, and made the Holocaust, if not possible, than more catastrophic than it would otherwise have been.

Religious coalition takes on the gun lobby

By Lauren Markoe — January 15, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) Dozens of the nation’s faith leaders said Tuesday (Jan. 15) that they’re ready to take on the gun lobby and demanded that politicians take quick and concrete steps to stem gun violence. By Lauren Markoe.
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