The initiative is part of Mayor Hector Lora’s push for minority communities to get the vaccines as soon as eligibility and supply allow.
Lora, who holds monthly roundtables with the region s clergy, reached out to religious leadership in hopes they would inspire their congregations by example.
Lora figured their flocks would be more responsive to clergy than to messages of encouragement issued by the government. It is very different, Lora said. These are people who they have a relationship with. They are the person who baptized their child.
Baskerville said he would be taking the message to his congregation Thursday night that the vaccine is not only safe but needed.
Dr. Katie Sagrero became concerned several weeks ago when upset patients began calling her South Omaha clinic with questions about a flyer in Spanish that suggested the two vaccines approved for COVID-19 contained tissue from aborted fetuses.
To provide some answers, Sagrero, a family physician with OneWorld Community Health Centers, revived the video series she had been doing for the Spanish news station Radio Lobo.
Neither the Pfizer nor Moderna vaccines contain aborted fetal cells, Sagrero explained in the Spanish-language video now available on YouTube.
In addition, the Catholic Church has said it is permissible for its members to get the vaccines.
Fetter Health Care Network to host more mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics Fetter Health Care Network is hosting mobile vaccinations sites in the Lowcountry. (Source: Live 5) By Alexis Simmons | January 20, 2021 at 3:24 PM EST - Updated January 20 at 3:24 PM
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Fetter Health Care Network is working to make it easier for people to get their COVID-19 vaccine by hosting mobile vaccinations clinics across the Lowcountry.
The organization hosted its first clinic at Mount Moriah Baptist Church in North Charleston Wednesday morning for people who are 70 and older and for healthcare workers to get vaccinated.
No appointments are needed, and 500 vaccinations were given on a first come first serve basis.
By Sydney Melson
The Birmingham Times
The Rev. Charles Winston, New Mount Moriah Baptist Church, Hueytown, who has served as pastor there for more than 20 years, said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of peace and nonviolence “shows absolute respect for other human beings and your relationship with Christ.”
Behaving according to God’s word means aligning yourself with King’s lessons of nonviolence, he said: “It means operating from humility and respect for God.”
In the ongoing fight for fairness and equality for people of color, Winston believes King’s tenets go beyond the church.
“We have to try to teach it in the way we live and in the way we communicate with each other,” he said. “Where it once took humility on one side of the fence to break down the hostility on the other side of the fence, [today] it will take humility on both sides.”