Tag: vaccinations
Is the churches uses of medical missions limited to overseas?
Churches and faith-based groups vaccinating can be a medical mission
Batavia, Ill., June 3, 2021 — So the Chicago White Sox were offering incentives to promote COVID-19 vaccinations. What can the church do to promote vaccinations to their congregants andRead More
For her, epidemiology was a natural way to live out her Christian beliefs...
Meet the Friendly Neighbor Epidemiologist encouraging her fellow Christians to get vaccinated
by: Emily McFarlan Miller May 19, 2021 (RNS) — Emily Smith didn’t realize there was such a divide between faith and science for many Christians. Smith’s parents led worship atRead More
“My father was a firm believer in medicine. He believed in it, so he would have been a supporter — no question,” he said.
Franklin Graham urges evangelicals to get vaccinated before it’s ‘too late’
by: Emily McFarlan Miller May 17, 2021 (RNS) — Franklin Graham pleaded with evangelical Christians to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in an interview with Axios that appeared over the weekendRead More
The event was hosted by Wheaton College’s Humanitarian Disaster Institute.
Francis Collins urges evangelicals: ‘Love your neighbor,’ get COVID-19 vaccine
by: Adelle M. Banks April 27, 2021 (RNS) — Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health and an outspoken evangelical Christian, urged his fellow evangelicals, many ofRead More
When Aten, executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, began to urge his fellow evangelicals to get vaccinated, however, things got ugly.
For evangelical leader Jamie Aten, advocating for vaccines led to a death threat
By: Bob Smietana April 27, 2021 (RNS) — Jamie Aten has spent years trying to help his fellow evangelicals deal with disasters. In the past, when he wrote about hurricanes,Read More
PBS Newshour interviews SBC leader
Russell Moore: “A vaccination is not only something that’s acceptable for Christians”
“A vaccination is not only something that’s acceptable for Christians. It’s something we ought to thank God that we have the technology for because it’s going to get us backRead More
“This is one great example of a partnership between government and faith-based organizations,” said [Melissa] Rogers
Fauci and Collins join interfaith leaders at cathedral vaccine ‘confidence event’
by: Adelle M. Banks WASHINGTON, March 17, 2021 (RNS) — In a socially distant but united “confidence event” at the Washington National Cathedral, leaders of the Washington area’s faith, medicalRead More