RNS Morning Report: Mosques push for voter engagement

Our year-end fundraising campaign is underway. Love reading our coverage every day? Show your support by donating to our nonprofit newsroom. Top Stories In run-up to midterms, Muslim groups, mosques push for voter engagement (RNS) — 'The local work is allowing us to expand voting rights so more people can vote for our candidates,' said Nada Al-Hanooti, executive director of Emgage’s Michigan chapter.   FBI warns of ‘broad’ threat to synagogues in New Jersey (RNS) — The FBI’s Newark office released a statement urging synagogues to “take all security precautions to protect your community and facility," but wouldn't say anything about who made the threat or why.   Birmingham ministries host LGBTQ-affirming student fair amid Samford pushback (RNS) — The event takes place months after Samford University disinvited LGBTQ-affirming ministries from its annual ministry fair.   Christian monastery, possibly pre-dating Islam, found in UAE (RNS) — The two monasteries became lost to history in the sands of time as scholars believe Christians slowly converted to Islam as that faith grew more prevalent in the region.   In ‘Raising Lazarus,’ Beth Macy summons the stone rollers (RNS) — A new book chronicles an addiction-recovery movement known as 'harm reduction,' an alternative to strict abstinence that has drawn many people of faith as helpers.   The American Renewal Project wants to mobilize pastors for the Republican Party (RNS) — The goal is to bring Christianity back into the public square. RNS Opinion In Indiana, a legal victory for religious liberty over fetal personhood (RNS) — The Supreme Court will soon have to reckon with its majority's expansive interpretation of free exercise of religion.   Vote like your life — and everyone else’s — depends on it (RNS) — We all have a chance to do our part.   Israel just had a bad week (RNS) — The challenges that face world Jewry seem almost overwhelming. Time to drill down on what we know to be true. ICYMI ‘I didn’t resign because of my mistakes,’ says former Hillsong pastor Brian Houston in video (RNS) — He had hoped, he said in the video, that the board would refuse his resignation.   New Hulu documentary recaps rise of Moral Majority and downfall of Jerry Falwell Jr. (RNS) — ‘God Forbid,’ which clocks in at nearly two hours and carries a TV-MA rating, released this week on streaming platform Hulu. In Other News Behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s Win in Israel: The Rise of Religious Zionism What Is Satanism? And Where Does Social Justice Fit Into This Controversial Religion?   Talk to Us We want your feedback on the RNS Morning Report — what you think we're doing right and what we should be doing differently. Send us an email at Comments@ReligionNews.com Subscribe to other RNS Newsletters. Forward this email to a friend. View the archive of past newsletters. Religion News Service is free to read, but it's not free to produce. If you value our reporting, please consider making a donation today at religionnews.com/donate. If you prefer to mail a donation, please address to: Religion News Foundation, PO Box 1808, Columbia, MO 65205. Yes, I support the work you're doing! Forward this email to a friend