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Rolling Stone’s publisher planned to convert a Black church into his home, but residents fought back to preserve it

By Alejandra Molina

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — 'We just could not allow it to fall into the hands of someone who didn’t have the religious respect of the community,' said Naomi Nightingale.

Krista Tippett on why it’s past time to ‘humanize digital spaces’

By Whitney Bauck

Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile

By Associated Press

Billy Graham’s grandson Jonathan Lotz, son of Anne Graham Lotz, in hospital with COVID-19

By Adelle M. Banks

Bob Moses, civil rights leader, led us to imagine the end of racism

By A. James Rudin

(RNS) — The great educator and civil rights leader reminds us that there may be no more noble cause than democracy.

On Tisha B’av, the meaning of Tree of Life revealed

By Beth Kissileff

(RNS) — Some ideas for the architect who will rebuild the site of the Pittsburgh massacre.

Confessions of an exhausted Catholic

By John Gehring

(RNS) — The Catholic narrative in public life has become a soul-wearying experience.

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Wally Funk, right, describes their flight experience as Mark Bezos, left, and Jeff Bezos, left, center, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, applaud from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

RNS News Quiz: Ben & Jerry’s and Wally Funk

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks during the Family Leadership Summit, July 16, 2021, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Noem to headline GOP event in early-voting South Carolina

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, right, and his new justice minister, André Mendonça, attend his swearing-in ceremony at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, on April 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

André Mendonça, President Bolsonaro’s ‘terribly evangelical’ Supreme Court justice

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Afghan citizens at a March 2021 rally in Kabul to support peace talks between the Taliban and the government. (Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

Parents are reunited with released students of the Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi, Nigeria, on Sunday, July 25, 2021. Armed kidnappers in Nigeria have released 28 of the more than 120 students who were abducted at the beginning of July from the Bethel Baptist High School in the northern town of Damishi. Church officials handed those children over to their parents at the school on Sunday. (AP Photo)

28 abducted Baptist school students freed in Nigeria

Faithful gather in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, July 25, 2021. Pope Francis has offered his blessing for the Tokyo Olympic Games from Vatican City. Francis told the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the traditional papal blessing that “in this period of pandemic, these Games are a sign of hope, a sign of universal brotherhood and of a healthy competitive spirit.” (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope honors grandparents on first World Day for elderly

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Dating as a Catholic: Sweet dream or not-so-beautiful nightmare?

Orphans eat a meal in Sylhet, Bangladesh, in April 2021. Photo by Imdadul Hussain/Unsplash/Creative Commons

With more than a million children orphaned by COVID, faith-based groups look to mobilize support

People listen to a Native Deen concert during an Eid al-Adha celebration at the Green Meadows Petting Farm in Ijamsville, Maryland, July 20, 2021. Photo courtesy of Laila Tauqeer

Maryland Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha with a farm-focused carnival

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Amy Grant has a new tour marking the 30th anniversary of her album “Heart in Motion.” Photo by Cameron Powell

Oh Baby, Baby: Amy Grant’s biggest hit turns 30

Pope Francis passes by British musician Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, and his wife, Trudie Styler, as he leaves at the end of his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Aug. 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

New book examines Sting’s enduring Catholic imagination

“My Unorthodox Life” on Netflix follows the family of Julia Haart, center. Image courtesy of Netflix

Netflix’s ‘My Unorthodox Life’ is an exposé that fails to explain some basic facts

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FILE - In this July 12, 2021 file photo, people wait in live to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at the James River Church West Campus in Springfield, Mo. Across Missouri, hundreds of pastors, priests and other church leaders are reaching out to urge vaccinations in a state under siege from the delta variant. Health experts say the spread is due largely to low vaccination rates — Missouri lags about 10 percentage points behind the national average for people who have initiated shots.(Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP File)

Missouri church leaders implore congregants: Get vaccinated

The Pillar published an investigation of Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, largely based on his phone’s location data. RNS illustration by Kit Doyle

The Pillar investigation of Monsignor Burrill is unethical, homophobic innuendo

Wally Funk, right, describes their flight experience as Mark Bezos, left, and Jeff Bezos, left, center, founder of Amazon and space tourism company Blue Origin, applaud from the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Wally Funk’s church celebrates her Blue Origin spaceflight: ‘What an inspiration she’s been to us all’

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A Hindu priest performs rituals at the Sangam, confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, on the eve of the Maghi Purnima, or the full-moon day, during the annual traditional fair of Magh Mela in Prayagraj, India, Feb. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India can still turn the tide back toward democracy

An Iranian woman holds a portrait of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally marking the 42nd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A hard-line stance on Iran endangers Christians. There’s a better way.

In this March 7, 2021, file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public rally ahead of West Bengal state elections in Kolkata, India. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)

President Trump failed to challenge India on religious freedom. Will Biden follow suit?

Krista Tippett on why it’s past time to ‘humanize digital spaces’

Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile

Taliban ‘has not changed,’ say women facing subjugation in areas of Afghanistan under its extremist rule

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Bob Moses, civil rights leader, led us to imagine the end of racism

Rolling Stone’s publisher planned to convert a Black church into his home, but residents fought back to preserve it

Billy Graham’s grandson Jonathan Lotz, son of Anne Graham Lotz, in hospital with COVID-19

Historic Vatican trial may change Catholic Church’s finances forever

Mary, mother of Jesus, returns as an icon for pop stars and social justice warriors

Sparked by pandemic fallout, homeschooling surges across US

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