Health experts recommend pairing incentives with other outreach programs. In Missouri, officials have acknowledged the need to partner with trusted community leaders such as pastors. More than 200 Missouri ministers and pastors on Wednesday signed a statement urging Christians to be vaccinated. Read full piece
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Meantime, a coalition of more than 200 Missouri ministers and pastors announced a campaign on Wednesday aimed at urging fellow Christians to get their shot. Read full piece
Hundreds of Missouri Christian pastors, at least 22 of them ministering to the faithful in the Springfield area, pleaded with state residents on Wednesday to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the disease continued to tear through the unvaccinated population. Read full piece
More than 200 Missouri pastors and ministers are joining a COVID-19 vaccination outreach effort spearheaded by a Jefferson City-based Christian magazine. Read full piece
To understand the problem of global COVID vaccine inequity, consider these statistics: “We have crossed the figure of 3 billion vaccine doses administered (globally), and still only 0.3% of those have gone to low-income countries. Of the 2.6 billion tests performed globally, less than 4%
Father Jim Martin isn’t quick to call out bias against his faith. But sometimes people go too far. Read full piece
Cuban authorities have detained religious leaders — including at least three Baptists — in the wake of nationwide protests, action that drew rebuke from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Read full piece
Don’t sit on the sidelines waiting for a miracle to happen; the miracle is happening now. Read full piece
Western powers repeatedly use periods of Haiti’s “destabilization” as a pretext for exploiting the nation’s resources and people. Read full piece