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Poor People’s Campaign asks Congress to vote on wages, voting rights before midterms
By Adelle M. Banks — September 28, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The letters were the latest plea for policy change by the movement modeled after the original Poor People’s Campaign started by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Southern Baptist leaders decry ‘stone cold racist’ letter to Dwight McKissic
By Adelle M. Banks — February 4, 2021
(RNS) — SBC President J.D. Greear and others objected to a letter that assailed McKissic, a Black pastor who recently announced he was pulling his church out of the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
Martin Luther letter critical of Jews is up for auction
By Yonat Shimron — July 10, 2018
BOSTON (AP) — 'For these Jews are not Jews, but devils incarnate who curse our Lord,' Luther wrote.
Thousands of faith leaders ask Congress to protect Johnson Amendment
By Adelle M. Banks — August 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'Changing the law would threaten the integrity and independence of houses of worship,' they wrote.
Faith leaders ask Clinton not to ignore black church concerns
By Adelle M. Banks — November 1, 2016
(RNS) The letter, signed by Democrats and independents, outlined frustrations with some of Clinton’s statements about abortion and requested a meeting 'during your first 100 days in office.'
British faith leaders condemn rise of xenophobia following Brexit vote
By Yonat Shimron — July 1, 2016
(RNS) Religious leaders said people should not become mistrustful of “the other.”
Kate Kelly joins hundreds outside Mormon headquarters for mass-resignation event
By Benjamin Wood — July 27, 2015
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) With a signed letter in hand, Stephanie Engle joined roughly 100 current and former Mormons -- including Ordain Women co-founder Kate Kelly -- at a mass-resignation event a block from the church’s downtown headquarters.
Vatican knew about theft of Michelangelo letters, refuses ransom demand
By Rosie Scammell — March 10, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) While the Vatican refused to disclose the price put upon the documents, Italian media said that between 100,000 and 200,000 euros (or $108,000 to $214,000) had been demanded.
Letter to my possible son: You will always be my child (COMMENTARY)
By Lily Burana — January 9, 2015
(RNS) Say that as the years go by you find that your physical self doesn’t match your sense of your own gender. How will I love you? The same. I will raise you and love you just the same.
“I hasten to assure you, sweetheart that I affirm you,” a letter from a Christian father to his lesbian daughter
By Eliel Cruz — December 12, 2014
This letter is exactly how Christian parents should respond to their LGBT child.
Ft. Hood shooter asks to be ‘citizen’ of Islamic State
By Katharine Lackey — August 29, 2014
(RNS) "I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic State," Nidal Hasan said in the handwritten, two-page document.
Civil rights groups to feds: Purge your anti-Muslim training materials
By Lauren Markoe — August 14, 2014
(RNS) Civil rights and religious groups are asking the Obama administration to rid federal agencies of anti-Muslim bias.
COMMENTARY: Anti-Semitism card overplayed in Ukraine
By Abraham H. Foxman — April 18, 2014
(RNS) In Ukraine, manufactured incidents of anti-Semitism have been cynically used to discredit political opponents as anti-Semites, whether they are, or not.
‘Dear Martin’: Bishop’s letters to MLK trace the highs and lows in race relations
By Adelle M. Banks — January 16, 2014
(RNS) "While we are yet flawed by those among us who hold to racial bigotry and intolerance, they no longer define us as a nation or a people!” United Methodist Bishop Woodie White wrote in his 2014 letter to Martin Luther King.
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