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Black and White and Red All Over: Why Racial Justice Is a Gospel Issue
How civil rights pioneers convinced conservative Christians, and why civil rights is no longer a "culture war" issue (Russell Moore, Moore to the Point)
Rev. Franklin Graham gets involved in "Justice for Trayvon"
During a meeting Tuesday at the Billy Graham Library, evangelist Franklin Graham agreed to partner with the national NAACP in its efforts to fight for justice for slain Orlando teen Trayvon Martin. (WSOC-TV)
Are We Born With Some Notion of an Eye for an Eye?
Our research shows that by 8 months of age, infants prefer to play with puppets who treat bad individuals badly, even over those who treat bad individuals well. (J. Kiley Hamlin, Science and Religion Today)
Bishops Criticize Tough Alabama Immigration Law
A group of church leaders has formally denounced Alabama's new immigration law, calling it mean-spirited and un-Christian, and has vowed not to obey it. (The New York Times)
Opinion: Hiroshima’s lessons
What the Air Force should remember about Just War and nuclear weapons. -(Tyler Wigg-Stevenson, The Washington Post)
Give us our daily passage: Reading Bible tied to social justice issues
a new study by Baylor University researcher Aaron Franzen found frequent Bible reading predicted greater support for issues ranging from the compatibility of science and religion to more humane treatment of criminals (Ahead of the Trend, ARDA)
A Christian Group Seeks to End Extreme Poverty
Some 138 million Christians live in the United States—and they collectively earn $2.4-trillion per year. If each one of those people just slightly increased the amount he or she gives each year, they could eradicate extreme poverty by 2035 (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
Brazil convict remains jailed in nun's murder
A rancher convicted of masterminding the murder of a U.S. nun who was also an environmental activist will have to stay in jail while his case is appealed, Brazil's top court ruled (Associated Press)
Wife of murdered German missionary hopeful about case in Turkey
The arrests of more people in connection with the murder of three missionaries in central Turkey in 2007 has created hope for the widow of one of the victims. (Hurriyet Daily News)
Opinion: A Case for Hell
While large majorities of Americans believe in God and heaven, belief in hell lags. How did they lose the fear of damnation? (Ross Douthat, The New York Times)
Life Ethics
Irish Government Proposes Allowing Abortion in Emergencies
The Irish government has proposed legislation to allow abortion in cases where a threat exists to a woman’s life, including from suicide. (The New York Times)
Online Furor Draws Press to Abortion Doctor’s Trial
Following accusations that the case was being ignored by the national news media, reporters descended Monday on Philadelphia, where Dr. Kermit Gosnell was on trial (The New York Times)
Obama backs Planned Parenthood in political fight
States want to turn women's health back to the 1950s, he said (Associated Press)
Violence
Turn to Religion Split Bomb Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Home
Over the past five years, the personal lives of the Tsarnaev family members slipped into turmoil, driven, at least in part, by a growing interest in religion by both Tamerlan and his mother. (The WallmStreet Journal)
Relative: No motive in Easter shooting in Ohio
Panicked witnesses to a fatal Easter service shooting in Ohio feared many might be killed as the victim's son approached the pulpit, waving a handgun and yelling about God and Allah (Associated Press)
Kenyan church moves past painful election history
This time, election passed in peace (Associated Press)
Crime
Rape case pits Indiana woman against her church
Silvia Gameros alleges that employees of the Diocese of Evansville failed to protect her developmentally disabled daughter during an overnight retreat. (Indianapolis Star)
Online Furor Draws Press to Abortion Doctor’s Trial
Following accusations that the case was being ignored by the national news media, reporters descended Monday on Philadelphia, where Dr. Kermit Gosnell was on trial (The New York Times)
Salvation Army forced to defend handling of child sex complaints
The Salvation Army has had 473 complaints about abuse in its Victorian children's homes, has spent nearly $20 million so far settling them and could give no explanation of how predators got away with it for so long - but it denied there had been a culture of abuse (The Age, Australia)
Human Rights
Muslim Brotherhood’s Words on Women Stir Liberal Fears
In a statement Wednesday on a proposed United Nations declaration to condemn violence against women, the Brotherhood issued a list of objections, which formally laid out its views on women for the first time since it came to power. (The New York Times)
Jerusalem attorney aids embattled Messianics
Michael Decker -- an Israeli believer -- is among a small cadre of Israeli lawyers who for years have battled what some may see as a puzzling phenomenon: A government that relies on the global support of evangelical Christians has an Interior Ministry that, by Decker's assessment, is fighting tooth and nail against Jews who believe in Jesus from becoming citizens. (BP)
Merkel's 'Christian persecution' comments draw ire
Opposition lawmakers and human rights groups are criticizing German Chancellor Angela Merkel for claiming that Christianity is "the most persecuted religion worldwide." (Associated Press)
Immigration
Evangelical Christians Increasingly Favor Pathway to Legal Status for Immigrants
Evangelical leaders are conducting an ambitious push to sway Congress, including ad campaigns on Christian radio stations in five states, meetings with lawmakers and a challenge to churchgoers to pray every day for 40 days using Bible passages that speak of welcoming the stranger. (NYT)
Evangelicals Push Immigration Path
After decades of sitting on the sidelines of the debate, evangelical Christians are prodding Republican lawmakers to support a path to U.S. citizenship for the nation's illegal immigrants, based on their reading of Bible teachings (The Wall Street Journal)
Obama meets with faith leaders on immigration
Faith leaders, particularly evangelical Christians, have become an important voice in pressing Republicans to back new immigration laws (Associated Press)
War
A Theological View of ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
Aside from disputes about whether torture succeeds, theologians wonder if it should be accepted by society if it does succeed (Samuel Freedman, The New York Times)
Cross found may be the one stolen in Mojave Desert in 2010
A note attached to a cross found in Northern California says it is the stolen cross, but the husband and wife who erected it in 1998 aren't so sure. (LAT)
They Remember Their Martyrs
Whatever Westerners choose to forget, the Pacific martyrdoms remain vividly alive for the thriving churches of those regions, now wholly under local control. Taking China and the Pacific Rim nations together -- Japan's abortive empire of the 1940s -- we count at least 220 million Christians, a tenth of the global total of believers. And they remember their martyrs. (RCR)
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