February 2, 2021

Daily Religion Headlines

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NEW FROM PEW RESEARCH CENTER

Some 41% of U.S. adults have been harassed online in at least one of six ways covered in a Pew Research Center survey from September 2020. About one-fifth of them – that is, about 8% of all U.S. adults – say they believe they were targeted because of their religion, according to a new Fact Tank post.

U.S. headlines

A mix of hope and dismay as religious leaders assess Biden
The Associated Press

SBC report calls never-Trumper Russell Moore’s agency a ‘significant distraction’
Religion News Service

Do Jewish conservatives still have a home in the post-Trump Republican Party?
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Bill to allow guns in churches, synagogues, mosques advances in Florida Senate
Tallassee Democrat *

Pennsylvania agency bungles ballot referendum for child sex victims
The Associated Press

Pastor Rick Warren apologizes for children’s Sunday school video loaded with Asian culture stereotypes
Religion News Service

Biden-Harris is diminishing India’s Hindutva lobby in the White House
Religion Unplugged

International headlines

U.N. fears for Myanmar Rohingya after coup, Security Council due to meet Tuesday
Reuters

Pope on Iraq trip: Worthwhile even if most watch him on TV
The Associated Press

German bishops’ summit considers women and lay roles as answer to abuse crisis
Religion News Service

Prestigious Istanbul university fights Erdogan’s reach
The New York Times *

Turkey’s Erdogan denounces LGBT youth as police arrest students
BBC News

Tajik mosques reopen as government claims coronavirus win
Agence France-Presse

Future of Holocaust research in Poland hinges on libel case
The Associated Press

Abraham Twerski, Hasidic rabbi and psychiatrist, dies at 90
The Associated Press

Analysis and commentary

How a young activist is helping Pope Francis battle climate change
The New Yorker *

How American politics complicates evangelicalism in the UK
Christianity Today *

Catholic schools are beating COVID
The Wall Street Journal *

Liberal Catholics and the temptation of sectarianism
National Catholic Reporter

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