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After immigration raids, Southern California Catholic bishop lifts Mass obligation

Aleja Hertzler-McCain and Helen Teixeira

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Why ‘Shylock’ is antisemitic

Jeffrey Salkin

National teachers’ union votes to sever ties with the Anti-Defamation League

Yonat Shimron

A 500-year-old Sikh tradition returns to Capitol Hill to resist bigotry in politics

People attend a previous Langar on the Hill event in Washington. (Photo courtesy SALDEF)

Richa Karmarkar

(RNS) — Langar began as a radical act of equality to reject caste divisions that often prevented Indians from sharing a meal.

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Pope Leo XIV offers to host peace talks at the Vatican after meeting with Zelenskyy

Claire Giangravé

Former member sues John MacArthur’s megachurch for public shaming

Bob Smietana

Photos of the Week: Ashoura, Texas flooding

Kit Doyle

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A radical balm to reduce teen suicide: Acts of kindness

Areyah Kaltmann

Opinion

Mamdani’s win unleashed a surge of Islamophobia — and showed how to beat it

Dilshad Ali

Phyllis Zagano

Immigration policy has become a question of character

(RNS) — The United States is beginning to look like a dictatorship seeking to divest itself of anyone who is poor and speaks Spanish.

Art Jipson

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US?

(The Conversation) — The Seven Mountain Mandate calls on Christians to gain influence, or ‘take dominion,’ over seven key areas of culture: religion, family, education, government, media, business and the arts.

Katherine Stewart

How US Christian nationalists are exporting their agenda to Europe

(RNS) — A new report follows the money as it moves from reactionary advocacy groups and think tanks to groups waging war on women’s equality and related causes.

Militants kill 5 Israeli soldiers in Gaza and Israeli strikes kill 51 Palestinians

Tia Goldenberg

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Health officials at Nasser Hospital, where victims of the Israeli strikes were taken, said one strike targeted tents sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Israel's military had no immediate comment on the strikes, but it blames Hamas for any harm to civilians.

US adults want the government to focus on child care costs, not birth rates, AP-NORC poll finds

Tiffany Stanley

Instead of birth rates, Americans are more likely to want the government to focus on the high cost of child care and improving health outcomes for pregnant women, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

What is the ‘Seven Mountains Mandate’ and how is it linked to political extremism in the US?

Art Jipson

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