The Associated Press on MSN11d
New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
The New York Times27d
Southern Methodist University Wants to Sever Ties to Its Church. Can the Church Stop It?
The dispute, which some critics say tests the church’s autonomy, reached the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday for arguments. By Ruth Graham The Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments on ...
The New York Times7d
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group. By Alan Feuer The Proud Boys no longer have control ...
Jurist8d
New Zealand grants sacred mountain personhood in landmark law
New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor.
WTNH22d
Gateway Church is evacuated after individual claims to have a knife
WEST HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — At about 11 a.m. on Sunday morning, West Haven Police said there was an incident at Gateway Church. Officers say an individual called 911 claiming to be upset and have ...
The Boston Globe11d
A New Zealand mountain is granted personhood, recognizing it as sacred for Māori
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...
The Diplomat25d
New Zealand-Singapore Defense Relations in a Volatile World
2025 will be a special time for relations between New Zealand and Singapore. In August, Singapore will commemorate its 60th year of nation-building and mark 60 years of diplomatic relations with ...
The New Yorker24d
Why Is the Riverside Church’s Century-Old Preschool Facing Closure?
A century ago, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., asked an iconoclastic preacher of the Social Gospel, Harry Emerson Fosdick, to lead the Baptist church that he attended on Park Avenue. Fosdick initially ...
Esquire7d
This Was Not on My Catholic Church Sex Scandal Bingo Card
The sexual-assault crisis within Holy Mother Church continues to reverberate. But, I admit, on my Catholic Church Sex Scandal bingo card, I didn’t have deep involvement by a National Football ...
The New Yorker22d
Donald Trump Plays Church
It’s usually gauche to take pictures in church. But at St. John’s, the Episcopal Church just across a sedate Lafayette Square from the White House, photography is inevitable at least once ...
BBC24d
'I'm outraged Church of England leader called my abuser a Rolls Royce priest'
David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...