California City Mayor Resigns over China Influence Charges
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‘Come Home Alive’: Why Black Parents Say Having ‘The Talk’ with Their Kids is Vital to Keeping Them Safe
The deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks have reignited conversations about racism, unfairness, and the relationship between blacks and cops. The subject is also what surrounds a more personal talk that African American parents have had with their kids for years.
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Biden plans to end contraception exemption for Little Sisters
Former vice president Joe Biden pledged on Wednesday to reinstate Obama-era policies that would require the Little Sisters of the Poor to provide birth control and abortifacients to employees in violation of their religious beliefs.
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NAMB journeymen learn life-long missionary skills | Baptist Press
Send Relief's Journeyman program supports missionaries in engaging churches in areas of poverty, refugees and internationals, foster care, adoption, human trafficking, crisis response and church planting.
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Trauma-healing ministry reaches refugees in Uganda | Baptist Press
As IMB missionaries worked with ministry partners to provide physical needs in a Ugandan camp for Sudanese refugees, a singular need kept rising to the top again and again: trauma care.
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Supreme Court Frees Religious Schools from Discrimination Suits
The Supreme Court is siding with two Catholic schools in a ruling that underscores that certain employees of religious schools, hospitals and social service centers can’t sue for employment discrimination. The high court's ruling on Wednesday was 7-2.
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Catholic school teachers are ‘ministers’, Supreme Court rules
The Supreme Court on Wednesday delivered a long-awaited religious liberty decision on the right of religious schools to hire and fire teachers.
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We Have a Story to Tell: Indigenous Activists Speak Out Amid Toppling of Serra Statues
As Californians once again reckon with their statues of Junipero Serra, the 18th-century Franciscan priest who founded what would become 21 missions along the California coast, Native people and Indigenous scholars say it’s time for their voices to be heard and their existence to be recognized.
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IMB missionaries use trauma care resources to help refugees, start churches | Baptist Press
International Mission Board missionaries in Colombia are helping the Venezuelan refugees deal with the trauma of the last few years -- and helping them start churches in their neighborhoods.
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Kentucky Baptist pastor concerned about treatment of churches | Baptist Press
A Kentucky Baptist pastor is speaking out about ways he believes churches have been singled out during the coronavirus pandemic.
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FIRST-PERSON: Pastors need prayers, patience amid pandemic | Baptist Press
With varying opinions on guidelines surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, many pastors find themselves in a "no-win" situation, Milton Hollified says. They need our prayers and patience.
