Why Catholic bishops rocked out to megachurch worship hits
16 Aug
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Why Catholic bishops rocked out to megachurch worship hits

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Top Stories Tamfitronics (RNS) — In mid-July, Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts, was transformed into a place of worship as more than 50,000 Catholics gathered for the National Eucharistic Congress.The stadium full of young people, nuns in an array of habits and priests in black and brown faced an altar adorned with four candlesticks and a golden monstrance displaying a consecrated host for Eucharistic adoration.Then there were the Catholic bishops and other worshippers in the stands, hands raised in worship like Pentecostals, singing “How Great Is Our God,” a megachurch-style worship anthem, as a church rock band played on stage. That song was one of several Protestant-style worship songs sung at the Eucharistic Congress. Others included “Way Maker,” Build My Life,” “Come to the Altar” and “Praise,” the latest hit from Elevation,...
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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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