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

By Alejandra Molina

(RNS) — 'The Jesuit Border Podcast' documents the stories of migrants, advocates and organizations the Revs. Brian Strassburger and Louie Hotop encounter along both sides of the US-Mexico border.

Court temporarily blocks San Diego schools’ vaccine mandate after suit filed by 16-year-old

By Alejandra Molina

There’s fanfiction for everything — even the Bible

By Nidhi Upadhyaya

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

By Sheikh Saaliq

Celebrating the insurrection of Hanukkah in a year of insurrection

By Brad Hirschfield

(RNS) — Hanukkah, the story of a second-century BCE insurrection, can shed light on our view of Jan. 6.

To hell and back again with Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’

By Peter Manseau

(RNS) — The pop star's multiple accounts of a disappointing affair tap into an ancient formula of faith and myth.

Happy New Year, it’s Advent

By Thomas Reese

(RNS) — The feast of Jesus' birth began by co-opting a pagan holiday. Today, it has been co-opted by pagan capitalism.

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FILE - Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., speaks at a news conference held by members of the House Freedom Caucus on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 29, 2021. Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized Friday for using anti-Muslim language in describing a recent encounter she had with Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Omar seeks action over House colleague’s remarks on Muslims

Pope Francis shakes hands with French President Emmanuel Macron during a meeting at the Vatican, November 26, 2021. Photo by Vatican Media

Pope Francis and Macron meet at the Vatican amid clergy abuse scandals in France

People carry out a “die-in” in Portland, Oregon, on Nov. 21, 2021, to protest the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Some protesters chanted “Rittenhouse is guilty.” Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges after testifying he acted in self-defense in the deadly Kenosha, Wisconsin, shootings that became a flashpoint in the nation’s debate over guns, vigilantism and racial injustice. (AP Photo/Andrew Selsky)

Portland’s season of unrest rekindled after Kyle Rittenhouse verdict

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

A man lowers into a grave a tiny white casket of an unborn Iraqi boy, in Bohoniki, Poland, on Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021. The child is the latest life claimed as thousands of migrants from the Middle East have sought to enter the European Union but found their path cut off by a military build-up and fast approaching winter in the forests of Poland and Belarus. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Iraqi baby buried as death toll in EU-Belarus crisis grows

Farmers celebrate news of the repeal of farm laws they were protesting against, in Singhu, on the outskirts of New Delhi, Nov. 19, 2021. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government will withdraw the controversial farm laws that were met with yearlong demonstrations from millions of farmers who said the laws would shatter their livelihoods. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Why the Indian farmers’ protest victory is good for us all

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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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Native America has lessons for surviving an apocalypse, says Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest

Ed Gavagan, from left, Michael Sandridge and Dan Laurine in the documentary “Procession.” Image courtesy of Netflix

To vanquish lived trauma, Netflix’s ‘Procession’ puts victims in the director’s chair

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New children’s Bibles rethink how Christians share old, old story with young readers

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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

Money, schools and religion: A controversial combo returns to the Supreme Court

Celebrating the insurrection of Hanukkah in a year of insurrection

Court temporarily blocks San Diego schools’ vaccine mandate after suit filed by 16-year-old

There’s fanfiction for everything — even the Bible

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

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

To hell and back again with Taylor Swift’s ‘All Too Well’

Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge

Phil Saviano, key clergy sex abuse whistleblower, dies at 69

Religious abortion rights supporters fight for access

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