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Inside a Christian mother's fight against ICE activity in Chicago

Fiona Murphy

Opinion

Graham Platner’s Nazi tattoo should have disqualified him long ago

Beth Kissileff

In East India, a Marian shrine draws in Christian, Hindu and Muslim pilgrims

Priyadarshini Sen

Faith-based AI company Gloo faces moment of truth after $438M in losses

Bob Smietana

(RNS) — Serial entrepreneur Scott Beck believes he has a mission to help churches and Christian ministries spread God's work and help others. After years of financial losses, he believes his investment in building a faith-based tech company will soon pay off.

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New polls show plummeting support among faith groups for Israeli government, Netanyahu

Jack Jenkins

Jehovah’s Witnesses buy data center property for new expansion

Adelle M. Banks

Pro-Palestinian interfaith coalition protests Christian Zionist summit

David Katibah

Opinion

US sanctions are harming the Cuban Catholic Church, the island’s hope

Jeffrey von Arx

Opinion

I was raised as Christian pronatalist. The movement is white supremacist.

Tia Levings

Thomas Reese

Pope Leo calls for government action to protect children and workers from AI

(RNS) — Like many of us, Leo fears the tools of the digital age — which hold such promise — have been made poisonous.

Diana Dukhanova

How Russia turned to medieval saints in its push for ‘traditional values’ – and more babies

(The Conversation) — The Russian Orthodox Church is creating another pro-family day, part of a broader ‘traditional values’ campaign run by the government.

Michael Naparstek

From ancient texts to modern practices, Daoism provides a profound framework for understanding the world not as broken but as naturally seeking balance

(The Conversation) — Daoism approaches the world not from the perspective that the world is broken or needs to be saved, but rather that it is naturally balanced.

The church fathers of early Christianity are showing their swag – on TikTok

Denva Gallant

(The Conversation) — Paintings of early Christian saints were designed to show worshippers what sacred authority looked like, using books, clothing and gestures as symbols.

Hamas dissolves its government in Gaza to transfer power to a UN-backed committee

Samy Magdy and Wafaa Shurafa

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas did not say whether it planned to take the crucial step of disarming or handing over security to an international force, but described its decision as evidence of its commitment to Gaza’s reconstruction after years of war.

Khamenei’s other sons appear at his funeral in Iran as new supreme leader remains in hiding

Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s new supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, has yet to make an appearance in the funeral ceremonies, which are unfolding over several days. He is believed to be in hiding after reportedly being wounded in the airstrike that killed his father.

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Inside a Christian mother’s fight against ICE activity in Chicago

"Are we proud of where we are now?": A rabbi urges a moral reckoning

Sanskrit prayers and dosas: Inside one of the oldest Hindu temples in the US