A demonstrating church member is arrested after Samuel Oliver-Bruno, 47, an undocumented Mexican national, was arrested after arriving at an appointment with immigration officials, in Morrisville, N.C., on Nov. 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Travis Long)
Need to know: Friday, November 30, 2018
Sanctuary churches’ rocky relations with ICE strained after arrest of undocumented man
Churches that provide sanctuary to people at risk of deportation are doubling down on security and wondering how best to deal with ICE.
For former Pittsburgh prosecutor, the new inquiry into clergy abuse is personal
David Hickton's suburban Catholic grade school, says the retired chief federal prosecutor for western Pennsylvania, "was ground zero of the clergy sexual abuse scandal."
Death of missionary sparks debate over mission work
John Allen Chau’s death has captured international attention. It also has sparked conversations within Christian circles about how Christians approach mission work.
RNS holiday gift guide 2018: Books, Barbies, subscription boxes and more
Not everybody celebrates a religious holiday in December. But almost everybody likes presents, and there's something for just about everybody in our annual holiday gift guide.
Why Christians should support a free press
Faithful Christians will never give today’s headlines the same weight we do our Bibles, but we should appreciate the way a free press contributes to a healthy civil society, writes Daniel Darling.
5 weeks and counting: Dutch church holds worship marathon to protect migrant family
Five weeks after a pastor in the Netherlands started what seemed like a fairly ordinary church service, that service is still underway, a sort of pious filibuster relay that involves hundreds of people and shows no sign of stopping.
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Police search offices of Texas archdiocese in priest abuse probe
"If (this investigation) led me to Rome, we’d be at the Vatican today," said the local district attorney.
Crystal Cathedral, home to the ‘Hour of Power,’ transforms into Catholic seat
The restoration of the former home of televangelist Robert Schuller as the seat of the Roman Catholic bishop of Orange will accommodate California's latest religious boom.
In remote parts of Uganda, a fight to stop preachers from discouraging medical care
Earlier this month, a 27-year-old Pentecostal pastor was arrested after interceding to stop the medical care of a severely ill 9-year-old girl.
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Getting through a Christmas of grief
Here's the Advent devotional I wish I'd had six years ago when I was engulfed with grief, writes Jana Riess
A religious opening for stopping climate change
Mark Silk writes that climate change denial is a species of faith—the non-evidence of things seen, as the author of Hebrews might have said.
The Iranian government is targeting Baha’is in Yemen. We’ve seen this before.
If we allow the condemnation of 22 Baha’is to death in Yemen, what will the world have actually learned, writes James Samimi Farr.
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