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The Pro-Democracy Faith Movement - Center for American Progress


The Pro-Democracy Faith Movement
February 18, 2021, 9:31 am
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An imam holds hands with a Jewish faith leader during a press conference with an interfaith coalition of faith leaders on the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election and rising hate crimes outside the Masjid Muhammad, The Nation s Mosque, in Washington, November 2016.
Sam Hananel
Introduction and summary
This report was developed through a project with Auburn Seminary, which for more than 200 years has equipped leaders of faith and moral courage who are on the front lines fighting for the health and wholeness of U.S. society.
The past year has been an incredible test for American democracy. The coronavirus crisis not only crippled America’s public health and economy, but it also necessitated new ways of voting in a presidential election. This incited new tactics for voter suppression that compounded long-standing efforts to hobble the voting power of communities o ....

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Biden Revives White House Office for Faith-Based Organizations


Biden Revives White House Office for Faith-Based Organizations
February 15, 2021
President Joe Biden speaks with NIH staff members at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., Feb. 11, 2021. Biden signed an executive order Feb.14 to reestablish a White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships created under the Bush administration and revamped during the Obama years. (Photo: CNS/Carlos Barria, Reuters)
By John Lavenburg, National Correspondent
NEW YORK Responding to requests from religious communities and organizations, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order Feb.14 to reestablish a White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships created under the Bush administration and revamped during the Obama years. ....

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