Faiths

(RNS) — Outsiders often look upon large Orthodox Jewish families with scorn, others with pity.

MAARAB, Lebanon (AP) — His comments came as Western diplomats try to broker a de-escalation in the border conflict amid fears of a wider war.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police in cooperation with the Internal Security Agency arrested the 16-year-old Polish male in Warsaw on Wednesday evening.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The warrant contained several new details about the sex-trafficking investigation, including claims that some victims were sexually assaulted in a seminary swimming pool after being ordered to “skinny dip."

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) —It features videos of survivors from around the globe reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms.

(RNS) — The ordering of time became a fight about the ecclesiastical implications of scientific discovery and societal change.

(RNS) — ‘As U.S. Catholics, we recognize our country’s contribution to the present violence and to the ongoing systemic injustices in Israel-Palestine,’ the letter reads.

(RNS) — The commissioners recommended the State Department also retain the dozen countries that are currently designated as ‘countries of particular concern.’

(RNS) — The thinning of the UMC’s conservative ranks makes this week’s conference a perfect time to address the issue.

(RNS) — ‘How Great Is Our God’ has long been one of the most popular worship songs in Christian churches. Since 2020, it’s also become a theme song for Christian nationalist protesters.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) — With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the General Conference removed the ban on the ordination of ‘self-avowed practicing homosexuals’ — a prohibition that dates to 1984.

(The Conversation) — The Book of Job and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ both make fun of preachy know-it-alls and resist conventions of their genres.