Sophie Hills
Staff Writer at The Christian Science Monitor
Reporting on religion for @csmonitor | hillss(at)csps(dot)com
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Jackie Valley |Sophie Hills
A deadlocked Supreme Court sidestepped a decision about whether to allow the United States’ first public religious charter school, preserving the church-state wall for now. The divided court tied 4-4 Thursday in a consolidated pair of cases – Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond, and St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond – that could have eroded a key tenet of the First Amendment while also profoundly changing America’s public schooling system.
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4 weeks ago |
csmonitor.com | Sara Miller Llana |Whitney Eulich |Peter Ford |Sophie Hills
The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first American pope stunned Vatican watchers around the world. Many had long believed that an American would never be chosen to lead an institution with 1.4 billion followers because the United States already wields so much global power. Taking the name Pope Leo XIV, he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as tens of thousands gathered below him.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Jackie Valley |Henry Gass |Sophie Hills
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken several swings at the invisible wall separating church and state in public education. Two education cases being heard this month have the potential to either remove a few more bricks, or perhaps pull it down. The legal maneuvers underpinning the lawsuits give the courts an opportunity to profoundly change America’s public schooling system. And, in a twist, opponents of one case include people who favor both religious schooling and public charter schools.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Sophie Hills
Antisemitism in the United States is surging to levels not seen in nearly half a century. A new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows there was an average of 25 incidents per day over the last year – the highest since 1979, when the organization began tracking it. In the United States, about 2% of the population is Jewish, yet Jews are targeted in more than two-thirds of religious hate crimes.
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1 month ago |
csmonitor.com | Sophie Hills
Antisemitism in the United States is surging to levels not seen in nearly half a century. A new report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows there was an average of 25 incidents per day over the last year – the highest since 1979, when the organization began tracking it. In the United States, about 2% of the population is Jewish, yet Jews are targeted in more than two-thirds of religious hate crimes.
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The selection of Robert Francis Prevost as the first US pope stunned Vatican watchers worldwide. Pope Leo XIV’s first words: “Peace be with you” https://t.co/V8DxhKevR6
RT @henrygass: Is taxpayer money about to flow directly to religious schools? The Supreme Court is weighing that, among other major church-…
.@POTUS announced a DOJ anti-Christian bias task force at the National Prayer Bfast, but scholars tracking religious violence say the focus is too narrow. Here are the faith groups targeted the most in the US: https://t.co/G92sPsR6jr
