In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China’s Xinjiang region. The U.S. considers facilities like this to be detention camps for Uighur Muslims. China responded with swift condemnation on Dec. 4, 2019, after the U.S. Congress overwhelmingly approved a bill targeting its mass crackdown on ethnic Muslim minorities. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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As Trump signs Uighur human rights law, Bolton book claims he supported Chinese camps
The law’s signing comes amid explosive allegations by former national security adviser John Bolton that Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping to continue building the prisonlike camps.
Religious conservatives look to the next Supreme Court rulings on religious liberty
They hope to carve out significant wins in a series of cases, including ones dealing with the ministerial exception, abortion and public funding for religious schools.
In Minneapolis, a Somali-owned mental health clinic seeks to heal its community
Healing Path Wellness Services in South Minneapolis burned down during protests. But the Somali community the mental health clinic serves needs it more than ever.
Financially hit by COVID-19, Washington National Cathedral lays off staff
The cathedral isn’t the only prominent house of worship experiencing financial challenges as a result of the pandemic.
Evangelicals perfected cancel culture. Now it’s coming for them.
One Alabama megachurch preacher is experiencing a cautionary tale about a central spiritual idea: What goes around comes around, writes Jonathan Merritt.
Just how secular should America be?
Monday’s Supreme Court decision on sex discrimination was a blow for religious freedom. That’s a problem — for both sides, writes Russell Moore.
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Want to make systemic change? Pope Francis has some ideas.
Since becoming pope, Francis has tried to reform the Catholic Church with a series of broad gestures and systematic, long-term changes.
Rev. Rolland Slade, first black chair of Southern Baptist Executive Committee, elected
Rolland Slade, pastor of Meridian Baptist Church in El Cajon, California, was previously vice chairman of the Executive Committee.
Brene Brown, Zondervan pull support for enneagram expert, Chris Heuertz, after sexual harassment accusations
The decision by Zondervan follows a public post by 33 women who wrote that the Christian Enneagram expert ‘has harmed many people and we cannot remain silent anymore.’
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Five years after shooting, Mother Emanuel uneasily adapts as pilgrimage site
(RNS) — Before the pandemic struck, worship often included people from across the U.S. and some foreign countries, come to pray at what they take to be a sacred site.
Why CrossFit’s founder got crossed up by Floyd protests
Instead of capitalizing on the unrest, Greg Glassman espoused the values of the wellness movement's masculine wing, where Horatio Alger does pull-ups with his bootstraps, writes Tara Isabella Burton.
COVID-19 costs President Trump support among Catholics
(RNS) — Though their influence has been waning in recent cycles, keep an eye on Catholic voters if you want to know what will happen in November.
