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Activist Catholic priest Michael Pfleger again accused of sexual abuse

Aleja Hertzler-McCain

Opinion

The AI ethics debate looks different from Manila

Michael DeLashmutt

National Baptists launch social justice center near US Capitol

Adelle M. Banks

After mall stabbing, Utah faith leaders warn against anti-Muslim rhetoric

Syed Sohail Uddin is shown in a hospital after being stabbed on July 13, 2026, in West Valley City, Utah. (Photo via GoFundMe)

Ulaa Kuziez

(RNS) — The stabbing reflects growing concerns about anti-Muslim hate, said Imam Shuaib Din, who leads the Utah Islamic Center.

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Orthodox Jewish groups oppose daylight saving bill, argue it would disrupt prayer

Yonat Shimron

Sight & Sound ‘Christian Broadway’ shows will soon stream on faith-based platform

Kathryn Post

Photos of the Week: ICE protests

Kit Doyle

Opinion

If the church doesn’t rise up for the disabled, who will?

Nadia Ibrahim Mossburg

Opinion

Learning what a trip to Jewish Poland has to teach

Mark Silk

Jeffrey Salkin

How do we respond to Lindsey Graham’s death? It matters.

(RNS) — Sen. Lindsey Graham has died. Why are people responding in such a tasteless way?

Kerri J. Malloy

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

(The Conversation) — The Pentagon recategorized Native religions as ‘other.’ A scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies explains the implications of that change.

Jeffrey Salkin

The intellectual roots of feminism’s antisemitism

(RNS) — I don't know that feminism is a word Jewish women still fully own, but I know it’s worth fighting to keep.

Caribbean leaders press for slavery reparations, end of islands’ territorial status

DÁnica Coto

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The group said the commission is creating a framework to launch negotiations because the time for making the case for reparatory justice is overdue.

Trump reduces size of 2 national monuments in Utah as Republicans reshape land management

Matthew Brown and Savannah Peters

(AP) — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah have ancient cliff dwellings, petroglyphs and scenic canyons, as well as coal and uranium deposits that state officials want made available for development.

UK says an Iran-backed group was behind attacks on Jewish community and bans Revolutionary Guard

Jill Lawless

LONDON (AP) — The government said it is banning the group behind the attacks, the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.

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