Recorded Friday, May 17, 2024 — Faith leaders gathered for an emergency virtual briefing on the crisis in Haiti, “Haiti is on Fire: African American Faith Leaders Can Help to…
![A demonstration on Dec. 28, 2023, in Tel Aviv, organized by the peace group Standing Together, calls for a cease-fire.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/demonstration-dec-28-2023-tel-aviv-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Secular Jewish groups have historically made up the majority of solidarity and peace groups. But Palestinian citizens and observant Jews are also key. By Atalia Omer, The Conversation — The…
![A poster in support of a cease-fire, outside the White House on Saturday.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cease-fire-poster-outside-white-house-nov-4-2023-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Criticism of the Biden administration’s response to the crisis comes amid polls showing Biden’s approval rating dipped disproportionately among Black voters. By Jack Jenkins, The Washington Post — In recent…
![Children sitting near their home at al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees in the central Gaza Strip on June 20, 2020.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/children-al-shati-camp-palestinian-refugees-gaza-strip-june-2020-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
A scholar who has studied Palestinian refugees for 20 years explains the history of their displacement and the stakes involved for those living in an indefinite exile. By Michael Vicente…
![Rev. Jonathan Weaver (top center) with students from the Weaver School in Goma, Eastern Congo (Courtesy of Weaver School)](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/rev-jonathan-weaver-students-weaver-school-goma-eastern-congo-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Rev. Jonathan Weaver takes his message international By Hamil R. Harris, Washington Informer — For more than five decades the Rev. Jonathan Weaver has traveled from the United States to…
![A former Warren, R.I., church undergoing renovations to become a private home has yielded a historic discovery: a Reconstruction-era stained glass window that depicts Jesus as a man of color, which researchers think may be without precedent for the period.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/rhode-island-stained-glass-window-shows-christ-as-a-man-of-color-0-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Scholars think the window, commissioned in 1877, could be the first of its kind. ‘It should stand as a landmark in American culture,’ says art historian Virginia Raguin. By Malcolm…
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By David Comissiong — On Monday 9th January 2023, a devastating blow was delivered to all those vested interests that would perversely seek to deny Africans and people of African…
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Christians from the political left and right must find biblical solutions to criminal justice reform
By Bishop Garland Hunt — With less than two weeks before the midterms, crime and justice remain hot topics used to gin up voters and get out the party faithful….
![Former German chancellor Willy Brandt German falls to his knees before the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, on Dec. 7, 1970.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/willy-brandt-warsaw-monument-kneeling-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
In Jewish tradition, an apology is only part of the repentance process t’shuva. Germany continues to provide reparations to Holocaust survivors. By Bernie M. Farber, Toronto Star — On Dec….
![On the Sunday before Juneteenth, the Rev. Ryan Marsh stood in front of about 50 mostly white parishioners to announce a "reparations distribution" program for the church.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/juneteenth-reparations-announced-salt-house-church-1-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
Weary of waiting for the federal government to act on reparations for black Americans, churches and other faith groups have started their own programs. By Julia Duin, Newsweek — On…
![Traditional handmade snowshoes are presented to Pope Francis by Adrian Gunner, from the Assembly of First Nations delegation in the spring when First Nations, Inuit and Métis visited the Vatican to discuss the harm caused by residential schools. The Pope is expected to make another, potentially broader, apology during his visit to Indigenous communities in Canada next week.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/pope-francis-adrian-gunner-1600x900-1-1024x576.jpg)
It’s been 35 years since a papal visit to an Indigenous community in Canada. By Megan Williams, CBC — The last time a pope visited an Indigenous community in Canada was…
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Rev. Dr. Agorom Dike is founder and President of the Caribbean and African Faith Based Leadership Conference. By Grit Daily — If history has taught us anything, the most influential…