Daily Religion Headlines

Historic LGBTQ rights bill passes – after exposing GOP divisions
Politico

United Methodists reschedule meeting – and decision on splitting – again
Religion News Service

How California’s Jewish community won the battle over the state’s ethnic studies program
Haaretz*

Texas church helps mosque damaged after snowstorm
Religion News Service

Why a Catholic journalist is urging the church to engage Black Lives Matter
Religion News Service

Iowa lawmakers consider bill to create ‘alternatives to abortion’ program
KCCI Des Moines

Many New Yorkers want barbecue, just make it kosher
The Wall Street Journal*

Missing community, these college students innovated church online into pod watch parties
Religion Unplugged
 

A megachurch was one of France’s first COVID clusters. One year on, 600 members sang and mourned in an indoor service
The Washington Post*

LDS Church kicks in $20M toward global COVID vaccination push
The Salt Lake Tribune*

In Iraq’s biblical lands, scattered Christians ask ‘should I stay or go?’
Reuters

Shamima Begum cannot return to UK, Supreme Court rules
BBC News

Malaysian man wins landmark challenge against Muslim gay sex ban
Reuters

Gods, fireworks and plague: Taiwan folk festival takes aim at COVID
The Guardian

Indian coast guard find 81 Rohingya adrift at sea, asks Bangladesh to take them
Reuters

Peru court orders authorities to ‘respect’ woman’s wish to die
Agence France-Presse
 

Inside Xinjiang’s prison state
The New Yorker*

Conservatives opposing the Equality Act don’t speak for most people of faith, and they know it
NBC News

You need to take the religious left seriously this time
Politico

Prayer and science led me to the vaccine
The Wall Street Journal*

Are Christian schools training Christians or Americans?
Christianity Today*

The insurrectionists’ Senate floor prayer highlights a curious Trumpian ecumenism
Religion News Service

The creeping radicalization of White evangelicals
Religion News Service

A sacred place undone by Trump must be saved by Biden
The New York Times*

Pope can’t make ends meet with a ‘no firing’ policy
Crux