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.
Can secular health care institutions be trusted to make a moral brain death policy?
By Charles C. Camosy
(RNS) — A lack of consensus on the definition of ‘brain death’ has led to a default policy that declares living people dead.
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.
Teens plotted to buy guns and attack Jewish people after Sydney bishop was stabbed, police allege
By Rod Mcguirk
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Five teens, aged 14 to 17, were charged in a Sydney court on Thursday last week with a range of offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act.
A Hindu festival in southwestern Pakistan brings a mountainous region to life
By Adil Jawad and Riazat Butt
HINGLAJ, Pakistan (AP) — The dramatic surroundings of Hingol National Park in Baluchistan province are the setting for Pakistan’s largest Hindu festival, Hinglaj Yatra, which started on Friday and ends on Sunday.
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