Mexican Catholic bishop throws support behind initiative to ban music exalting drug traffickers
A Roman Catholic bishop has thrown his support behind an initiative to ban the distribution and promotion of so-called “narcocorridos” music – Mexican folk songs that have been co-opted to exalt the activities of drug traffickers. Bishop José Guadalupe Galván Galindo, of the Diocese of Torreon in Coahuila state, said the music influences the “state […]
US Protestant congregations twice as likely to fear refugees as help them, new research finds
Pastors of Protestant churches in the US say that while caring for refugees is a “privilege”, their church congregations are twice as likely to fear refugees as they are to help them, according to new data from LifeWay Research. The Nashville-based organisation surveyed 1,000 Protestant senior pastors in January in an initiative sponsored by humanitarian […]