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RNS Morning Report: RNS gift guide 2022: For kids, adults and Pastafarians on your list

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RNS holiday gift guide 2022: Ideas for the kids, adults and Pastafarians on your list

(RNS) — Because not everybody celebrates a religious holiday in December, but everybody loves presents.
 

In ‘Stealing My Religion,’ Liz Bucar takes on murky forms of appropriation

(RNS) — Bucar invites readers to 'interrogate the stance that we are entitled to take religious practices from others for our own needs.'
 

Texas megachurch White’s Chapel departs UMC to anchor new Methodist ‘college’

SOUTHLAKE, Texas (RNS) — 'We want to work together, and we want to be a healing agent between all of Methodism,' said the Rev. John McKellar, co-pastor of White’s Chapel. 
 

Black museum religion exhibit features Little Richard’s Bible, Rev. Ike’s suit

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The first special exhibition to focus specifically on religion since the museum opened includes photos and artifacts accompanied by quotations of famous African Americans.
 

Feared ritual dancers in Zimbabwe try to revamp public image

(AP) — Performers of the Gule Wamkulu, or “the great barefoot dance,” are seeking to counter such negative impressions and rehabilitate the group’s reputation in society.
 

Antisemitic graffiti in DC suburb seen as part of a trend

WASHINGTON (AP) — Violently antisemitic graffiti along a popular walking trail is part of a rising tide of anti-Jewish vandalism and activity dating back a decade, according to local Jewish leaders.
 

Italy church says 600 sex abuse cases sent to Vatican

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy’s Catholic bishops provided their first accounting of clergy sexual abuse and revealed Thursday that more than 600 cases from Italy were on file at the Vatican since 2000.
 

Maryland probe finds 158 abusive priests, over 600 victims

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP) — David Lorenz, the Maryland leader of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, described the news of the report and numbers of victims as “absolutely horrendous."
 

Qatar bans sale of beer at World Cup stadiums in about-face

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Qatar banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums on Friday, a sudden U-turn on the deal it made to secure the soccer tournament — only two days before the opening game.

RNS Opinion

Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King. Here’s why it still matters.

(RNS) — Christ the King offers both a hopeful and a sobering reminder to Christians, whose loyalty to Jesus becomes subordinated to political ideology.
 

Catholic bishops punt again on ‘Faithful Citizenship,’ reflecting divisions on politics

(RNS) — Nothing said at the bishops’ meeting indicated that they know how to deal with the post-Dobbs, post-election reality other than to say, 'more of the same.'
 

The Twitter exodus: As a Christian minister, I can no longer stay

(RNS) — As long as Musk is in charge without restraints or oversight, I'll be away. 

ICYMI

Apaches get rehearing in fight to preserve Oak Flat, a sacred site in Arizona

(RNS) — ‘The government protects historical churches and other important religious landmarks, and our site deserves no less protection,’ Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr. said.
 

Poll: Politics drives religious Americans’ views on the environment

(RNS) — Religious people who lean Republican are less inclined to be concerned about global warming than people of the same religion who identify or lean to the Democratic Party.

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