Emily Belz

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Juez federal permite las detenciones por estatus migratorio en iglesias - Christianity Today en espaĆ±ol

1 week ago | es.christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

La sentencia dice que la administración Trump no ha hecho de las iglesias su objetivo, y que la redada en una iglesia no representó un daño significativo. El viernes, un juez federal se negó a bloquear la nueva política de la administración Trump que permite a las autoridades de inmigración llevar a cabo arrestos en "lugares sensibles" como iglesias y otros espacios religiosos.
Federal Judge Allows Immigration Enforcement in Churches

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The ruling said the Trump administration has not been targeting churches, and that one church raid wasn't significant harm. A federal judge on Friday declined to block the new Trump administration policy allowing immigration authorities to carry out arrests at "sensitive locations" like churches and other religious spaces. Twenty-seven Christian and Jewish groups had sued, saying the new policy violated their religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The Secret Cure for a Health Care System Without a Heart

2 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

One of the last Christian medical schools in the US could change how doctors do medicine. Andrew Wai hit a breaking point as a third-year medical student. Exhausted from the pressure of doing rounds and studying for exams, he began viewing each patient as another barrier in between him and the end of his shift. "You ask me another question?" Wai thought at the time.
The Yo-Yo Between Life and Death in Global Health

3 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Funding canceled. Funding renewed. New documents show the extent of the Trump administration's historic aid cuts, and the few programs saved. After years as a missionary and then a pastor, Mark Moore started a peanut butter factory in Fitzgerald, a small city in Georgia. His nonprofit Mana Nutrition makes ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a peanut butter-based paste for severely malnourished children around the world.
Supply Chains Break and Hospitals Shutter After USAID Freeze

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Christian donations can only do so much to fill the gap when facilities grapple with layoffs, scarce drugs, and unanswered questions. A 300-bed Christian hospital in Eswatini has largely stopped seeing patients. Staffers at a Christian maternity clinic in Côte d'Ivoire are watching HIV drugs rapidly disappear from their shelves and do not know where to acquire more even if they can raise money for them.
How Baylor Is Facing Its Slavery History

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The Christian college is building a memorial to enslaved people, despite a national backlash against diversity initiatives. Amid the oak trees of Baylor University's Founders Mall, a beautiful green corridor that stretches down the center of campus, a memorial is under construction. The oaks have their own history as part of a tradition of students planting trees on campus, and now Baylor is adding to the landscape a reminder of some of its darker history.
Where Humility Leads to Lots of Home Runs

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Dallas Baptist University is a small school with one of the top programs in college baseball. What's the secret to its greatness? Coach Dan Heefner had a question. It was the first week of school at Dallas Baptist University (DBU), and the August sun was hot over the small Christian campus nestled into the hills along a shimmering lake on the outskirts of Dallas. Heefner ducked into an air-conditioned meeting room near the baseball field and stood in the front. The room was packed with young men.
The Prisoner Who Planted a Church on Death Row

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

As Trump pushes states to resume executions, Kevin Burns in Tennessee tries to keep his congregation alive. Every week, behind a half dozen security doors that lead to Unit 2-Tennessee's death row-Kevin Burns holds a worship service. He leads Communion, prayer, liturgy, and a sermon with men who share his sentence. Burns, 55, has been on death row at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville for 30 years, convicted of felony murder in two young men's deaths in 1992.
Is This the End of USAID?

2 months ago | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

Christian partners around the world-suddenly fired, defunded, and without answers-worry that the new administration is done with the development agency. Projects in 130 countries-from Kenya to Vietnam to Ukraine-ground to a halt. Staff on the ground, many with Christian organizations, were adapting to new information by the hour, trying to find alternatives for patients seeking help from clinics that had closed.
Trump Pardons Protestors Convicted of Blocking Abortion Clinics

Jan 24, 2025 | christianitytoday.com | Emily Belz

The cases covered a range of circumstances, from pro-lifers' peaceful prayer to a forced entry that injured a nurse. On the eve of the March for Life in Washington, which marks the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, newly inaugurated president Donald Trump pardoned nearly two dozen pro-life protestors who were convicted of Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act violations under the Biden administration. Trump had promised to help the convicted protestors during his campaign.