Watching the Occupy Wall Street protests last week on TV I saw what looked to be an Orthodox Jew in the background blowing a shofar.
Was there a religious aspect to the burgeoning movement? Or had this poor man just gotten lost on the way to a Yom Kippur observance?
Turns out, there is a spiritual side to the protests, as clerics join the multi-city movement and demand that the 99 percent get a bigger piece of the pie. Check out our report on the “Protest Chaplains” movement-within-a-movement.
Some protesters marched with a Golden Calf made to look like the famous Wall Street bull statue. (Photo at left courtesy of Faith in Public Life.)
The Mormonism = non-Christian cult meme continues to get a lot of play. (Do you get the feeling that reporters were lying in wait for this issue?) Jon Huntsman called the Baptist pastor who kick-started the controversy a “moron.”
LDS leaders are surveying Mormons about their reading habits.
Ron Paul talked to CT about his faith. He’s now a Baptist, after leaving the Episcopal Church some time ago over abortion (he thinks).
Protesters in Egypt chanted anti-military slogans at the funeral of 23 Christians killed over the weekend. Egyptian Christians living in the U.S. told the AP they are horrified by violence that has erupted against Copts back home.
Iran’s Supreme court kicked back the case of a Christian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy to a lower court, saying there had been insufficient investigation before the original trial, Reuters reports.
The Archbishop of Canterbury met with Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe and handed him a report detailing incidents of intimidation against Anglicans who refuse to follow an excommunicated leader.
The leader of the Amish group whose members are accused of sneaking into another Amishman’s house and cutting his hair and beard said that it’s a religious matter and police shouldn’t be involved.
Two Italian sexual abuse victims walked 340 miles to the Vatican to demand an independent investigation of the church’s response to abuse by priests.
Worried about its dwindling numbers, the Roman Catholic Church in India is exhorting its flock to have more children, which counters the government’s strategy of trying to limit family size in the 1.2 billion-member nation.
The ultra-traditionalist SSPX met to consider the Vatican’s conditions for reconciliation, but failed to announce their decision.
Yr hmbl aggregator,
Daniel Burke
