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News Jamaica » Religion: Religious brothers support disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Melissa

News channel or source: https://angelusnews.com/news/world/hurricane-melissa-jamaica/

Published on: Wednesday 29 October 2025

The Missionaries of the Poor in Kingston, Jamaica, provided shelter and other resources for vulnerable communities during Hurricane Melissa, a Category 5 storm.

News Jamaica » Religion: Peoria County native survives Category 5 hurricane in Jamaica

News channel or source: https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/11/01/peoria-county-native-survives-category-5-hurricane-jamaica/

Published on: Friday 31 October 2025

PEORIA ( 25News Now) - A Brimfield native serving on a religious mission in Jamaica experienced the terror of Hurricane Melissa, all while trying to help the deaf community.

News Jamaica » Religion: Jamaica genesis : religion and the politics of moral orders / Diane J. Austin-Broos

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/jamaica-genesis-religion-and-politics-moral-orders-diane-j-austin-broos:siris_sil_976158

Published on: Saturday 02 August 2025

Cast into a tumultuous world -- A certain moral inheritance -- Revival and the healing of sin -- Hierarchy and revival culture : precursors to Pentecostalism -- Preachers and Pentecostalism -- A ...

News Jamaica » Religion: Jamaican church leaders push back against efforts to legalize spiritual practice of 'obeah'

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/religion-and-spirituality/jamaican-church-leaders-push-back-against-efforts-to-legalize-spiritual-practice-of-obeah/ar-AA1NnZp6

Published on: Friday 26 September 2025

Christian leaders in Jamaica are voicing strong opposition to a campaign to repeal the nation’s Obeah Act, warning that legalizing the folk spiritual practice would open the door to “confusion” and ...

News Jamaica » Religion: Cell phone come like a blessing : religion and the cell phone in a rural Jamaican town Daniel Miller and Heather Horst

News channel or source: https://www.si.edu/object/cell-phone-come-blessing-religion-and-cell-phone-rural-jamaican-town-daniel-miller-and-heather-horst:siris_sil_913898

Published on: Saturday 09 August 2025

Anthropologists Miller and Horst lived in Jamaica for one year to undertake a study of the impact of the cell phone on daily life, particularly in many rural communities. The study for this article ...

News Jamaica » Religion: Reflections on Baldwin and Jamaica: ‘for sinners shall be bound in hell a thousand years’

News channel or source: https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/10/reflections-on-baldwin-and-jamaica-homophobia-religion?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest

Published on: Tuesday 13 October 2020

Editor’s Note: This piece includes language and imagery that some readers may find distressing. “It took a long time for me to disengage myself from this excitement, and on the blindest, most visceral ...

News Jamaica » Religion: Twin Cities Caribbean community mobilizes relief efforts as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall

News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/twin-cities-caribbean-community-mobilizes-relief-efforts-as-hurricane-melissa-makes-landfall/ar-AA1PjfZE

Published on: Monday 27 October 2025

Caribbean Disaster Relief Fund of Minnesota and the Jamaica Minnesota Organization are two of the groups working to provide help.

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