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Texans will vote in November on whether governments can limit religious services

By Alejandra Molina

(RNS) — If voters approve the measure, known as Proposition 3, it would add a new section to the Texas Constitution forbidding governments from prohibiting or limiting religious services.

Protesting Zionism, climate activist group won’t rally in DC with Jewish groups

By Yonat Shimron

Mike Stone files lawsuit against SBC rival Russell Moore

By Bob Smietana

Lawmakers join faith leaders to voice support for ‘Build Back Better’ package

By Jack Jenkins

It’s time to end the Catholic Church’s abortion culture wars

By John Gehring

(RNS) — Catholic bishops should spend more time listening to people, including pro-choice Catholic women.

Voting is a covenant. We’ll use our pulpits to demand it be supported.

By Auburn Senior Fellows

(RNS) — President Biden needs to use his pulpit, too, to stop voting suppression shenanigans from continuing.

For Rabbi Earl Grollman, death was the classroom

By Jeffrey Salkin

(RNS) — Rabbi Earl Grollman has died. His books taught us how to cope with that.

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Haiti’s diverse faiths bolster it against waves of tragedy

Russia confines Siberian shaman to mental hospital for challenging Putin

Catholic, Protestant groups support commission on US Indian boarding school policy

‘We’re all interconnected’: Pagan, Christian clergy urge interfaith understanding

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Rabbi David Saperstein, center right with microphone, speaks during a voting rights rally outside the White House on Oct. 19, 2021, in Washington. RNS photo by Jack Jenkins

Voting rights demonstration leads to faith leaders’ arrests outside White House

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops attend a session at the USCCB's annual fall meeting in Baltimore, on Nov. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Study: Most US Catholic bishops kept silent on Francis’ climate change push

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Inside the fraught effort to create a Christian nationalist internet

World

The Diäŋdït Episcopal Chapel congregation with the Rev. Gerard Beritela, center left, a priest at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, in East Syracuse, New York. Photo provided by Garang Achiek

South Sudanese refugees are making a home, and a church, in Central New York

Security forces patrol the streets of Croix-des-Bouquets, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. A general strike continues in Haiti demanding that authorities address the nation’s lack of security, four days after 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group were abducted by a gang. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Efforts drag on to free 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

Climate crisis at forefront of agenda for Parliament of the World’s Religions

Health & Lifestyle

Photo by Kitti Incédi/Unsplash/Creative Commons

Baptist watchdog flunks Forever 21, praises H&M in annual ‘ethical fashion’ report

In this Fall 2019 pre-Covid photo, nursing students study in a simulation lab at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo by Andy Calvert, courtesy of Calvin University

Calvin University to add school of health with $15 million gift

Photo courtesy of Isha Mishra

Young Hindus get creative with home temples in cramped apartments

Arts & Culture

Two marble statues of angels are seen in this undated image. A British art collector who bought a pair of 17th century marble angels from a Neapolitan antiques shop two decades ago and had them at his French home has returned the “putti” to Italy’s art police after learning that they had been stolen from a church. In a statement released Tuesday Oct. 19, 2021 Italy’s carabinieri art police said the unnamed collector had tried to resell the angels at an antiques shop in Avignon, France ahead of his planned move from France to Portugal when French art police identified them as possible stolen goods. (Carabinieri for the Protection of Cultural Heritage via AP)

France returns marble angels stolen from Italy church in ’89

‘Dune’ novels draw on Islamic motifs and have in turn inspired Muslim artists

Actor James Gandolfini in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sept. 15, 2007, left. His son Michael Gandolfini poses, right, to promote his film

A Jewish case for not liking ‘The Sopranos’

Science & Tech

Pope Francis arrives to meet with the participants to the inter-parliamentary meeting on the COP26 in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope to lawmakers: Climate change requires quick consensus

Christi has run her channel, Christi ASMR, for two years. Courtesy photo

The relaxing and tingly world of Christian ASMR

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Want to regain young people’s trust? Start treating the earth, and life, as sacred

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Rashad Hussain in Geneva in 2011. Photo by Eric Bridiers/US Mission Geneva/Creative Commons

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

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The Pegasus Project surfaces a new era of oppression for people of faith. Here’s what should be done.

Protesting Zionism, climate activist group won’t rally in DC with Jewish groups

Mike Stone files lawsuit against SBC rival Russell Moore

Lawmakers join faith leaders to voice support for ‘Build Back Better’ package

It’s time to end the Catholic Church’s abortion culture wars

South Sudanese refugees are making a home, and a church, in Central New York

Efforts drag on to free 17 missionaries kidnapped in Haiti

Texans will vote in November on whether governments can limit religious services

Pope Francis calls for greater female leadership ahead of G-20 summit

Voting is a covenant. We’ll use our pulpits to demand it be supported.

Retired pope hopes to soon join friends in ‘the afterlife’

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Eight nontheist organizations sponsoring the 2021 secular Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos Secular

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HSS USA publishes Annual Report sharing its expanded work in 34 States and 171 Cities