Rehabilitating gang members: Pastors find a role ministering to young men swept up in El Salvador’s crackdown on gangs

MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ, of Associated Press, reports on the work of churches involved in rehabilitating gang members – and the impact President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown has had on them…
Violence against Jews in US doubled last year – ADL study

RNS Violent attacks against US Jews doubled in 2018, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s yearly audit of anti-Semitic incidents. Yet the report, published days after a synagogue shooting in Poway, California, that killed one woman and injured three other people, shows that despite the grim spike in violence against Jews, physical assaults remained relatively rare. Anti-Semitic […]