(RNS) — As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to a close, there are a few steps experts say every faith group can take to improve safeguarding protocols.

(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.

(RNS) — A new book shows how unconditional support for Israel became the de facto position of American Jewish institutions. Those who dissented were effectively sidelined.

(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.

(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A handful of Catholic priests are meeting with AI programmers and execs in Silicon Valley to address the ethical consequences of artificial intelligence.

(AP) – In the Black Church as a whole, male pastors predominate, though there’s no comprehensive gender breakdown.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Five teens, aged 14 to 17, were charged in a Sydney court on Thursday last week with a range of offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act.

HINGLAJ, Pakistan (AP) — The dramatic surroundings of Hingol National Park in Baluchistan province are the setting for Pakistan’s largest Hindu festival, Hinglaj Yatra, which started on Friday and ends on Sunday.

VENICE, Italy (AP) —Francis traveled to the lagoon city to visit the Holy See’s pavilion at the Biennale contemporary art show and meet with the people who created it.