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The push for Washington, D.C., to become its own state is gathering new momentum. It won overwhelming approval from district voters in a 2016 referendum. And last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 51, which would give the District of Columbia a representative with full voting rights and two senators.  The bill has little chance of becoming law unless the Senate gets rid of the filibuster. Still, Democrats are seizing on District of Columbia statehood as part of a broader push to adjust the balance of power in American government.  Why We Wrote This Those pushing for statehood ...

Quick Read By Maisie Sparks Correspondent Jia Johnson calls herself an abolitionist. As director of the Solidarity Building Initiative at McCormick Theological Seminary, she helps bring a liberative higher education program to those incarcerated at an Illinois county jail. One student earned a certificate in theological studies. “Another student,” she explains, “reflected on how he saw the kingdom of God break into his daily life at the jail, creating empathy that showed up as helping a cell mate who was ill.” Why We Wrote This Jia Johnson has seen firsthand the hardship of i...

Baghdad The death toll from a massive fire in a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to 82 Sunday, as anxious relatives searched for those missing and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence. The blaze, described by one witness as “volcanoes of fire,” swept through the intensive care unit of the Ibn al-Khatib hospital which tends exclusively to coronavirus patients with severe symptoms. Officials said the blaze, which also injured 110 people, was set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder. Maher Ahmed, a nurse, was called at 9:45 p.m. Saturday night, to...

No matter where we are in life, nurturing qualities such as joy, purity, and innocence empowers us to experience God’s promise of peace and healing.

Matthew Lee Associated Press Wilmington, Del. President Joe Biden has formally recognized that the systematic killings and deportations of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century were “genocide” – using a term for the atrocities that his White House predecessors have avoided for decades over concerns of alienating Turkey. With the acknowledgement, Mr. Biden followed through on a campaign promise he made a year ago Saturday – the annual commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day – to recognize that the events of 1915 t...