Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle
By Robert P. Jones
(RNS) — The overlooked religious middle is poised to play an outsized role in the 2024 presidential contest.
Despair in the Holy Land
By Thomas Reese
(RNS) — We have to persevere for peace and have hope because the alternative is too terrible to imagine.
What didn’t happen on Passover?
By Jeffrey Salkin
(RNS) — It is not only history. Read to the end for my message to the anti-Israel crowd.
Abducted retired Catholic bishop who mediated between cartels in Mexico is located, hospitalized
By Mark Stevenson
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The church leadership in Mexico said in a statement earlier that Msgr. Salvador Rangel, a bishop emeritus, disappeared on Saturday and called on his captors to release him.
A gunman kills 6 worshippers inside a Shiite mosque in western Afghanistan, the Taliban say
By Associated Press
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Local media reports and a former president of Afghanistan said the mosque was targeted because it was a place of worship for the country’s Shiite Muslim minority.
Obstacles remain as women seek more leadership roles in America’s Black Church
By Darren Sands
(AP) – In the Black Church as a whole, male pastors predominate, though there’s no comprehensive gender breakdown.
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