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A phrase from the book of Deuter­onomy hangs framed on the wall of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court chamber: “Justice, justice you shall pursue.”

For Ginsburg, who died at home surrounded by her family on September 18 at the age of 87, the phrase summed up perfectly her calling as jurist and a Jew.

In a 2018 interview with Jane Eisner, then editor of the Jewish daily Forward, Ginsburg said that she grew up in the shadow of World War II and the Holocaust and it left a deep and lasting imprint on her.

Mennonite Central Committee’s centennial didn’t start the way anyone had planned.

Like many nonprofits, the global development organization was hit hard by COVID-19. In May, MCC an­nounced that, due to the travel restrictions and an uncertain financial future related to the pandemic, it would be ending all programming in Vietnam, China, and southern Africa. Additionally, programming in the Middle East, Europe, and Central America would be downsized.

Thirteen staff positions ended with the fiscal year.

For decades, Roman Catholic voters have been a pivotal swing vote in US presidential elections, with a majority backing the winner—whether Republican or Democrat—nearly every time.

How they vote in the battleground states this year could well decide the outcome, and the rival campaigns are targeting them with fervent appeals to vote based on their faith.

An Episcopal priest who volunteers at an Immigration and Customs En­forcement detention center in Georgia has said allegations of medical neglect and a high rate of hysterectomies at the facility are consistent with her interactions with women detained there.

“There were gynecological procedures happening at a rate that seemed higher than the norm, to the point that pretty much everyone going (for any gynecological treatment) seemed to be getting the same thing,” Leeann Cul­breath told Episcopal News Service.

Leaders of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) called the September 23 decision of a Louisville grand jury to indict only one officer involved in the death of Breonna Taylor on three counts of wanton endangerment “a travesty.”

Some notable quotes from Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Bar­rett, a former Notre Dame law professor and current judge on the Chicago-based Seventh US Circuit Court of Appeals. On September 26, President Donald Trump announced he was nominating Barrett to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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