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US Church Membership Hits Record Low
Gallup says rate has fallen below 50% for the first time
If you're an American who belongs to a church, synagogue, or mosque, you're now in a minority, according to a new Gallup poll. Gallup says church membership has fallen below 50% to a record low of 47%, largely due to a corresponding increase in the proportion of people who say they have no religious affiliation. The pollsters say that when Gallup first measured church membership in 1937, the rate was 73% and it remained steady at around 70% until it began to drop around the year 2000, hitting 61% in 2010 and 55% in 2015. Even among religious Americans, the percentage who belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque has dropped to 60%, while 4% of those without a religious preference still belong to a church, down from 10% at the turn of the century.
Gallup says that there is a strong correlation between church membership and age with 66% of "traditionalists"—people born before 1946—belonging to a church, compared to 58% of baby boomers, 50% of Gen Xers, and 36% of millennials. The decline was steeper among Catholics than Protestants. Gallup says declines in church membership were also proportionately smaller among Republicans, Southerners, college graduates, and non-Hispanic Black Americans. Forbes notes that despite the decline in church membership, the US remains a religious country, with around 70% identifying with a religion. In other Western countries, including the UK and Canada, the rate is closer to 50%.
https://www.newser.com/story/304263/gallup-church-membership-is-below-50-for-the-first-time.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
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California home receives 122 offers in one weekend, sells within 3 hours
Citrus Heights home receives 122 offers in one weekend, sells within three hours
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Citrus-Heights-home-Bay-Area-real-estate-surge-16059566.php
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But in a single weekend, the 1,400-square-foot home with an asking price of $399,000 collected 122 offers in total.
“That house was on the market for three hours,” Anita Jackier told KTXL.
The couple said they planned to sell their longtime home after making the decision to move to Idaho. It boasts three bedrooms, two baths and a large backyard complete with a swimming pool and fountain.
“People would think that it was underpriced,” said Brittan, adding that the home sold for roughly $450,000, though the highest offer topped over $500,000. “It was not underpriced. It was straight on with the comps.”
Brazil City Posted 4.5K Cleaning Jobs. 90K Women Applied in two days
City Posted 4.5K Cleaning Jobs. 90K Women Applied
As pandemic worsens in Brazil, women suffer even more
When Sao Paulo city officials put out a call for 4,500 public school cleaning jobs, they were unprepared for the response. More than 90,000 women applied in two days. The initiative was aimed at alleviating skyrocketing unemployment among mothers and helping schools comply with Brazil's new COVID-19 protocols for keeping classrooms hygienic. T
he response offers a glimpse at how Brazilian women—particularly mothers—have been disproportionally sidelined by the crisis, the AP reports. Worldwide, as schools remain closed, many mothers juggle fewer work hours with homeschooling and household duties. Others put their careers on hold, or were laid off. In Brazil, economists say, the worsening health and economic crises are further delaying the return of women to the workforce. "This job fell from the sky for me," said Marilene Paixão, one of the mothers selected for the cleaning jobs. But a month after Sao Paulo hired the women, the city closed schools again on March 15.
https://www.newser.com/story/304226/as-pandemic-worsens-women-in-brazil-suffer-even-more.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login
Stuck Ship Moves 100 Feet, With tides rising, crews hope to free Ever Given on Sunday
With a full moon helping to lift tides, crews were digging in Sunday, determined to free the huge cargo ship stuck in the Suez Canal before the end of the weekend.
Several developments made them hopeful, the New York Times reports. Salvage crews got the ship to move about 100 feet late Saturday, setting off a cacophony of tugboat horns in celebration.
The ship's rudder is now free. Water is flowing under the Ever Given, which became lodged in Egypt's canal on Tuesday, blocking ship traffic. Two more tugboats are on the way to help, for a total of 13.
"We expect that at any time the ship could slide and move from the spot it is in," the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority said. "Sunday is very critical," a pilot with the canal authority said, per USA Today. "It will determine the next step, which highly likely involves at least the partial offloading of the vessel.
https://www.newser.com/story/304227/sunday-is-crews-goal-for-freeing-ship.html
GOP Chair Calls Top Dem. Elected Women 'Witches'
The leader of Michigan's Republican Party referred to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and two other top Democratic elected woman as “witches" that the GOP wants to “soften up” for a “burning at the stake” in the 2022 election, the AP reports.
He also joked about assassination when he was asked how to remove two GOP congressmen, Reps. Fred Upton and Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.
Ron Weiser's statements Thursday during a local Republican meeting, which are on video, were first reported by Detroit News on Friday.
Weiser, also an elected member of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, said multiple times that the party is focused on defeating “three witches”—a misogynistic reference to Whitmer, state Attorney General Dana Nessel, and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who are up for reelection in 2022. “Our job now is to soften up those three witches and make sure that when we have good candidates to run against them that they are ready for the burning at the stake," he said.
https://www.newser.com/story/304225/gop-chair-calls-top-dem-elected-women-witches.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
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hospital execs gave vaccinations to employees of their condo, church and luxury watch shop
Hospital exec resigns after Trump Tower workers given improper access to COVID-19 vaccines
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/03/26/chicago-loretto-hospital-ceo-resigns-trump-tower-workers-vaccinated/7011843002/
CHICAGO – An executive at a Chicago hospital that improperly gave COVID-19 vaccinations to people outside the area the city asked the hospital to serve resigned, officials said Wednesday night.
The board of Loretto Hospital announced the resignation of Dr. Anosh Ahmed, the chief operating officer and chief financial officer.
Ahmed and CEO George Miller were reprimanded last week by the hospital’s board of directors after news reports said hospital executives provided COVID-19 to some people who weren’t qualified to receive it.
The executives have drawn recent criticism following revelations that the hospital improperly vaccinated workers at Trump Tower, at a suburban church where Miller is a member and at a luxury watch shop frequented by Ahmed. News site Block Club Chicago broke the stories.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2021/3/26/22353183/kimberly-lightford-loretto-hospital-george-miller-anosh-ahmed-defends-coronavirus-vaccine
He maintains that “many” of the allegations against him were “inaccurate or patently false,” but he also admitted that only a quarter of those vaccinated at the hospital were residents of the surrounding Austin neighborhood.
“Unfortunately, stories of my involvement of providing vaccines outside of the community became daily media and political fodder instead of focusing on the pandemic and expanding access to healthcare services in the Austin community and beyond,” Ahmed said in a statement Friday.
Ahmed and Miller first came under scrutiny following revelations from Block Club Chicago that the hospital improperly provided vaccinations to workers at Trump Tower, where Ahmed lives; a luxury watch shop on the Gold Coast where Ahmed shops; and a high-priced steakhouse that Ahmed frequents.
Miller has drawn criticism for authorizing the Trump Tower vaccinations and providing vaccine to more than 200 members of his southwest suburban church.
Residents defend Robert E. Lee High: 'Jesus himself never condemned slavery'
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2021/03/25/robert-e-lee-high-school-renaming-jacksonville-florida-orig-jk.cnn/video/playlists/top-news-videos/Residents defend Robert E. Lee High: 'Jesus himself never condemned slavery'
A school board in Jacksonville, Florida, proposed changing the name of its Robert E. Lee High School and held community hearings on the issue. Comments made in support of the name outraged many at the hearings. Source: CNN
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