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Haitian congregations relieved after judge blocks Trump’s attempt to deport migrants

Helen Teixeira and Fiona André

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Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation

Thomas Reese

Catholic Mass in Anglicanism’s home cathedral taps UK’s vogue for pre-Reformation piety

Catherine Pepinster

At the Vatican, experts challenge the rules of global debt and finance

People commute near Vatican City, with St. Peter’s Basilica in the background. (Photo by Mauricio A./Pixabay/Creative Commons)

Claire Giangravé

(RNS) — The Vatican called for sweeping reforms to a global financial system it says punishes the poor and rewards the powerful.

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Photos of the Week: Dalai Lama turns 90, Muharram

Kit Doyle

Jewish, Baha’i leaders detained amid Iranian crackdown on spying

David I. Klein

Three shootings at Utah Hare Krishna temple raise concerns about hate, safety

Richa Karmarkar

Opinion

China wants to pick the next Dalai Lama. Will democracies let it?

Mike Kuiken and Randall Schriver

Opinion

We’re still fighting for migrants’ dignity in Los Angeles

Susan Goldberg, Najuma Smith-Pollard, Soraya Ahyaudin, Guillermo Torres and Tanny Jiraprapasuke

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	Martini Judaism 'Have you changed your mind about President Trump?' Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) — In a word, no. But ...
	The State of Belief Whither America? July 4th with Dr. Robert P. Jones Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush checks in with Public Religion Research Institute President Dr. Robert P. Jones about the state of our democracy and society on the nation's 249th birthday
	Complexified Casper ter Kuile on Small Politics, Big Meaning and the Power of Tea Rev. Amanda Henderson When the world is on fire, what if the answer is a house concert?

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	Complexified When the world is on fire, what if the answer is a house concert?

Jeffrey Salkin

Not every struggle requires a Nazi metaphor

(RNS) — Not every terrible thing is a Holocaust. Not every evil person is Hitler.

Susan L Trollinger

1 in 4 Americans reject evolution, a century after the Scopes monkey trial spotlighted the clash between science and religion

(The Conversation) — One hundred years after the Scopes trial, the culture war over evolution and creationism remains intense.

Charles J. Russo

In LGBTQ+ storybook case, Supreme Court handed a win to parental rights, raising tough questions for educators

(The Conversation) — SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases from 1925 and 1972.

Iran’s president orders country to suspend cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog IAEA

Jon Gambrell

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The order by President Masoud Pezeshkian included no timetables or details about what that suspension would entail.

Hamas is open to a ceasefire agreement. But Netanyahu says there’s no room for group in postwar Gaza

Associated Press

JERUSALEM (AP) — Trump said Tuesday that Israel had agreed on terms for a 60-day ceasefire in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept the deal before conditions worsen.

A Tohono O’odham family integrates Catholic and Native beliefs in the Arizona desert

Giovanna Dell'orto

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression. But many members of the Tohono O’odham Nation hold onto both faith traditions.

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