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A language course is reviving Moroccan Jewish culture and bridging Middle East divides

Kyle Desrosiers-Levine

Opinion

A passport and a whistle become daily accessories in Minneapolis

Mark Silk

This influencer wants Gen-Zers to see their lives transformed by yoga

Richa Karmarkar

As Springfield's 15,000 Haitians brace for deportations, local churches train to resist ICE

Attendees role-play scenarios of interacting with immigration agents during a rapid response training organized by G92 at Central Christian Church, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Springfield, Ohio. (RNS photo/Kathryn Post)

Kathryn Post

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — Over a year since Donald Trump and JD Vance spread falsehoods about the city's migrants eating pets, Haitians’ temporary protected status is set to run out Feb. 3.

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Photo essay: Clergy demonstrate against ICE in Minneapolis

Kit Doyle

Gospel musician Richard Smallwood remembered with music-filled funeral

Adelle M. Banks

Inside the effort to organize clergy nationwide to resist ICE

Jack Jenkins

Opinion

A Mormon drag queen in the Queen City

Jana Riess

Opinion

The ‘theology of showing up’ is making Minneapolis a holy place

Sunita Viswanath

Thomas Reese

Vatican journalist and expert John L. Allen Jr. dies at 61

(RNS) — From the end of the 20th century until his death, Allen was essential reading for anyone who cared about the inner workings of the Vatican.

Jeffrey Salkin

Being a Rabbi in the Midst of an Earthquake + Elan Babchuck

As the ground shifts beneath our feet, where is our faith?

Chad Gibbs

Bearing witness after the witnesses are gone: How to bring Holocaust education home for a new generation

(The Conversation) — Students respond to history that feels local and personal. There are ways to do that even as Holocaust survivors pass away, one professor writes.

Nigeria church attackers demand ransoms as search intensifies for over 150 hostages

Dyepkazah Shibayan

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — In one of the largest mass abductions targeting religious worship centers in the West African nation in recent months, the attackers on Sunday raided three different churches in Kaduna state’s Kajuru council area, seizing 177 people before 11 managed to escape.

The decision to move IS prisoners from Syria to Iraq came at the request of Baghdad, officials say

Qassim Abdul-zahra

BAGHDAD (AP) — The move to start transferring the detainees came after Syrian government forces took control of the sprawling al-Hol camp — which houses thousands of mostly women and children — from the SDF, which withdrew as part of a ceasefire.

Why Islamic State group prisoners in northeast Syria are being transferred to Iraq

Bassem Mroue

BEIRUT (AP) — The U.S. move came as Syrian government forces have captured wide areas that had been controlled by the SDF for years in an offensive that took everyone by surprise.

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1	news Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE
2	news Two Episcopal bishops say clergy may have to put 'bodies on the line' to resist ICE
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4	news In the neighborhood where Renee Good was killed, a pastor keeps patrolling for ICE
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