by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 9, 2017 | News
The number of U.S. adults who perceive refugees as a threat to U.S. security has declined over the past 10 months, according to the Pew Research Center. More than half (55 percent) of respondents in April 2016 labeled refugees leaving Iraq and Syria in large numbers...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 8, 2017 | News
Don Gordon is senior pastor of Ardmore Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and a Baptist Center for Ethics board member. 1. Where did you grow up? Clemmons, North Carolina. 2. What is your favorite verse, book or story in the Bible? Why? Romans. As one...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 8, 2017 | News
The significant impact of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing U.S. homelessness is often overlooked, according to a new report from Baylor University’s Institute for Studies in Religion. The report, “Assessing the Faith-Based Response to...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 7, 2017 | News
Evangelical, Catholic and Mainline Protestant organizations have called for support of the bipartisan BRIDGE Act, a congressional bill intended to safeguard from deportation undocumented immigrants who entered the United States as children. “I do not believe we...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 6, 2017 | News
Faith-based organizations play a vital role in refugee resettlement. The U.S. State Department assigns refugees admitted to the U.S. to one of nine organizations that assist them in the resettlement process. Six of these are faith-based groups: Church World Service...
by Janis Ezell | Feb 2, 2017 | News
In the aftermath of storms that swept the southeastern U.S., the national Woman’s Missionary Union and the WMU Foundation have awarded a $5,000 grant from the Humanitarian Emergency Aid for Rebuilding Tomorrow (HEART) Fund to assist international students and...