RELIGION HEADLINES
Written by on December 31, 2024
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(SRN NEWS) – A Rhode Island man has admitted to using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly black church earlier this year. Prosecutors say Kevin Colantonio (col-an-TOH-nee-oh) set several fires around the exterior of the Shiloh Gospel Temple early on February 11th in North Providence. The building was vacant at the time and the fires were quickly extinguished by members of the fire department. Damage to the church was not extensive, but investigators say it would have been devastating if fire fighters had gotten there a little bit later.
Abortion has become slightly more common in the U.S. despite bans or deep restrictions in most Republican-controlled states, and the legal and political fights over its future are not over yet. It’s now been two-and-a-half years since the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade and put the issue in the hands of the states. As the bans swept in, abortion pills became a bigger part of the equation. They were involved in about half the abortions before the repeal. More recently, it’s been closer to two-thirds of them, according to research by the Guttmacher Institute.
Syria’s civil war left one of the world’s oldest synagogues partially destroyed. Now Syria’s handful of remaining Jews are making pilgrimages to the building in a Damascus suburb where people from throughout the region once came to pray. Syria used to have one of the world’s largest Jewish communities, but in past decades their numbers dropped to just nine in the capital. The head of the Jewish community there says Jewish personalities are offering to rebuild the Jobar synagogue, which dates back nearly 3,000 years. It was badly damaged by bombardment when the neighborhood was controlled by opposition fighters.
Another call for an end to anti-Christian violence in northern Nigeria: The Plateau State Youth Council is urging the government to deploy the military in an effort to stop Muslim terror groups from murdering Christians. Tens-of-thousands of believers have been killed and millions more have been driven from their homes over the past two decades with no end in sight. A letter from the Youth Council asks “How long shall this carnage continue? We say enough is enough.” The international community has also been urging Nigeria to do more to stem the ongoing mayhem in the north.
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