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Before there was Roe: Religious debate before high court’s historic ruling on abortion

By Adelle M. Banks

(RNS) — Reports reveal blunt statements opposing the procedure, broadening definitions of what could be legalized and religious politicians’ reactions to state legislatures’ debates over the controversial procedure.

As Supreme Court debates abortion, dueling theologies protest outside

By Jack Jenkins

Report: Holocaust denial persists on Facebook one year after push to stanch it

By Yonat Shimron

Pope heads to Cyprus and Greece, raising hopes he will change conversation on refugees

By Claire Giangravé

Why Mississippi’s anti-abortion law is also an assault on LGBTQ+ rights

By Danya Ruttenberg

(RNS) — Dodd v. Jackson Women’s Health is important to anyone who wants autonomy over their body.

‘To those who celebrate.’ What’s up with that?

By Jeffrey Salkin

(RNS) — It is a rather timid religious expression. Why do we insist on saying it?

After Lauren Boebert’s Islamophobic standup, here’s the apology that was missing

By Mark Silk

(RNS) — Boebert refused Ilhan Omar’s request to apologize to her publicly.

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Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

Omar seeks action over House colleague’s remarks on Muslims

‘Praying to the West’ offers look at America’s diverse Muslim communities

What’s on America’s Thanksgiving menu? Start with religious diversity.

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The lighting of the National Menorah in Washington, D.C. in 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden brings a menorah lighting back to the White House, rededicating a Hanukkah tradition from the 20th century

Kyle Rittenhouse, left, walks along Sheridan Road in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Aug. 25, 2020, with another armed civilian. (Adam Rogan/The Journal Times via AP)

America sacramentalizes guns as God’s gift to the good. This is heresy.

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Build Back Better or quit? Time to choose

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Indigenous video game streamers advocate for representation and education

4 women sue Orthodox Union and its youth group, alleging sex abuse by rabbi

Kyrgyzstan, right, is located in central Asia. Map courtesy of Creative Commons

Kyrgyzstan is expected to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses publications for ‘extremism’

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Nuns follow Pope Francis as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

New book shines light on abuse and racist discrimination of Catholic nuns

Kosovo Albanian muslim faithfuls attend Friday prayer in the premises of the Grand mosque in Kosovo capital Pristina on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. Kosovo’s health authorities have tried a new technique in urging the people to get the anti-COVID-19 vaccine, this time cooperating with the Muslim community on Friday’s prayer. The imams around Kosovo called on the faithful to take the jab while medical teams waited at the mosques’ yard to inoculate them. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Kosovars get COVID vaccine after Friday prayer at mosques

Loyola Marymount University students protest Nov. 17, 2021, in Los Angeles, in reaction to the university’s response to a Planned Parenthood fundraiser hosted on campus by the LMU Women in Politics group. RNS photo by Alejandra Molina

Backlash over Planned Parenthood fundraiser continues at Loyola Marymount University

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Holocaust survivors dance during a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem's Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million other Jews who were killed by the Nazis. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at Jerusalem Western Wall

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There’s fanfiction for everything — even the Bible

The Revs. Louie Hotop, right, and Brian Strassburger interview Ofelia de los Santos, director of jail ministry for the Diocese of Brownsville, for

In a podcast, two Jesuit priests document their ministry along the southern border

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Donald Dardar, left, and Russell Dardar look toward the eroding shoreline of Bayou Pointe-au-Chien in southern Louisiana on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. The brothers have lived along the bayou all their lives as shrimpers and fishermen. They now also work to preserve the coastal land from further erosion by refilling canals and developing living shorelines. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

Faith groups increasingly join fight against climate change

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Digitizing sacred spaces: How COVID-19 fueled innovation of Hindu ritual websites

Foundations for Farming trainees practice digging planting stations during a workshop at the Zimbabwe Stewardship Centre in Harare, Zimbabwe, in October 2020. Photo courtesy of Foundations for Farming

Zimbabwean nonprofit promotes ‘God’s way’ of farming

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Five tech innovations used as weapons against people of faith

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Why the Senate must fast-track Biden’s nominee on religious freedom

In this Aug. 19, 2021, file photo, Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard. Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring instability to that backyard — Central Asia — and possibly even spill over the border into China itself in its heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

China is quietly using Afghanistan to strengthen its authoritarian agenda

As Supreme Court debates abortion, dueling theologies protest outside

Report: Holocaust denial persists on Facebook one year after push to stanch it

Before there was Roe: Religious debate before high court’s historic ruling on abortion

Pope heads to Cyprus and Greece, raising hopes he will change conversation on refugees

Why Mississippi’s anti-abortion law is also an assault on LGBTQ+ rights

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‘To those who celebrate.’ What’s up with that?

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Abortion debate epicenter: Mississippi clinic stays open

This Hanukkah, learn about the holiday’s forgotten heroes: Women

Biden brings a menorah lighting back to the White House, rededicating a Hanukkah tradition from the 20th century

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First annual National Day of Dialogue set for January 5, 2022

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