Faith groups are mobilizing thousands to march outside the DNC
16 Aug
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Faith groups are mobilizing thousands to march outside the DNC

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — Jameeleh Shelo, a Palestinian American and a native of Chicago, plans to march alongside thousands of others outside the Democratic National Convention next week to protest the party’s stance on Israel.Shelo, who is Muslim, will join people of various faiths and no faith to demand that the party end U.S. aid to Israel, which has carried out a 10-month war on Gaza that has so far killed tens of thousands of Palestinians.A series of massive protests outside Chicago’s United Center, where Vice President Kamala Harris will accept her party’s nomination (Democrats already officially nominated Harris in a virtual vote of delegates), are planned for every day of the convention, Aug. 19-22.“People of all faiths are coming together to stop what’s happening in Gaza,” said Shelo, 41, a documentary filmmaker whose...
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Black Baptist organization gets $1 million megachurch donation to aid African girls
16 Aug
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Black Baptist organization gets $1 million megachurch donation to aid African girls

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — A Baptist missions organization has received a $1 million donation from a Virginia megachurch, boosting its efforts to help girls in Africa.Lott Carey, a predominantly Black organization long known as the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Society, has traditionally had fundraisers as part of its annual gathering, which this year occurred from Monday through Thursday (Aug. 12-15) in Memphis, Tennessee.The Rev. Gina Stewart, Lott Carey president, had announced beforehand she hoped to raise $1 million on the last night of the convention. But Alfred Street Baptist Church, a historic Black church in Alexandria, Virginia, decided to raise money ahead of that occasion.Its pastor, the Rev. Howard-John Wesley, told Religion News Service he learned during a church trip to Ghana arranged by the Rev. Emmett Dunn, Lott Carey’s executive secretary-treasurer, about...
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The competing faiths of the 2024 election
16 Aug
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The competing faiths of the 2024 election

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — The slogan of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign, “We’re Not Going Back,” is a triple play.First and obviously, it’s about not going back to a Donald Trump presidency. Second and clearly enough, it’s about not going back to a time when abortion was banned, women were second-class citizens, LGBT people were in the closet, and racial discrimination was the rule.But third and more subtly, it’s about rejecting MAGA Republicanism. Its message is the reverse of the MAGA slogan, “Make America Great Again,” which is about going back — restoring something that’s been lost.That slogan made its appearance when Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency in 1980. What it announced was the Reagan agenda of returning America to an idealized past of conservative social and economic values.A Reagan-Bush pin from the 1980...
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African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church General Conference to begin August 21
16 Aug
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African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church General Conference to begin August 21

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Top Stories Tamfitronics World’s oldest historically Black denomination to gather 15,000 delegates and observers in Columbus, Ohio.NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The 52nd Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church will feature the church in worship and at work from August 21 to 28, 2024, at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. The AME Church is the world’s oldest Protestant denomination, established by persons of African descent.Since 1816, the AME Church has convened at least every four years to review and change the denomination’s laws and policies, receive reports from its agencies, and elect denominational leadership. The guiding theme and scripture for the General Conference is “The Pandemics, the Promise and the Plan,” drawn from Jeremiah 29:11. Over 15,000 delegates and observers will attend in person, representing 41 countries...
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