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Potential changes in how the church treats gays and lesbians. Hello everyone this is Al Jazeera America, im tony harris in new york city. We begin this hour with the director of the centers for Disease Control and prevention. He says today we should brace ourselves for other cases of ebola in the united states. Dozens of people being monitored in dallas right now where Officials Say a breach of protocol is responsible for a Health Care Worker getting ebola there. She treated thomas eric duncan, the index patient last week. Particularly the Healthcare Workers who cared for the index patient whe...

First Presbyterian Church of Evanston hosted a Sunday panel discussion in collaboration with nonprofit Bright Stars of Bethlehem on the role of religion, politics and solidarity in the Israel-Gaza war. Panelists included Rev. Mitri Raheb — co-founder of Bright Stars and Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, a city in the West Bank — Rabbi Brant...

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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Jackson, a renowned figure in the fight for civil rights, founded PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) in 1971 and established the National Rainbow Coalition in 1984. In 1996, the two organizations merged to form the powerful and influential Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Organization officials said Dr. Haynes, a Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc. co-chair, has exemplified the same passion and commitment to global racial justice that characterizes Jackson’s legacy. The post Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes III Succeeds Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. as President and CEO of Rainbow PUS...

Dallas pastor Frederick Douglass Haynes III has been named successor to Jesse Jackson as president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.