A Virginia pastor has been removed from ministry duties after he was charged with repeatedly sending sexually explicit messages to a teenager, forcing Christian colleges to distance themselves from
Tracey Sydnor, a beloved Brooklyn mother who was appointed as the administrative pastor of The Cathedral of Hope Upper Room Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant just over two months ago was found stabbed to death in her home Saturday. Her 40-year-old son admitted that he “slit her up,” the New York Police Department said.
In this issue of A Public Witness, we open up the book on recent efforts to ban or deplatform unwanted perspectives. Then we turn the pages on the ways these efforts often backfire, proving to be a harmful approach for dealing with noxious opinions.
Another day, another piece of viral COVID-19 misinformation. This one is a little more complicated than the usual "Pfizer is using the vaccine to turn
A Florida employee for a delivery service who was fired when he refused to work a Sunday shift for religious reasons has won an anti-discrimination case against his employer.
A priest has been suspended from his duties while the Archdiocese of Baltimore investigates allegations that he sexually abused a minor in the 1970s, the archdiocese announced Sunday.
“Time is never meant to be useless,” said Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington at the opening Mass this year’s Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, and he advised the gathering’s 800-plus registrants to “work for greater justice in our world.”
The United States Department of Justice has unveiled new guidance allowing male inmates at federal prisons to be housed with female prisoners.
A federal judge rejected a plea agreement Monday that would have averted a hate crimes trial for the white man convicted of murder for fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery, whose parents angrily objected to the deal as unfair and unjust.
One thing Sister Tracey Horan notices about the public perception of immigration policy in the United States is the normalization of the reality that migrants no longer have access to the asylum process, which is enshrined in international law.
The perpetrator of two sexual assaults against high school girls in Loudoun County, Virginia, has been removed from a sex offender registry following a legal defense made by a Republican member of the county’s board of supervisors.
