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Egypt nationalizes ancient monastery's grounds, fraying ties between Athens and Cairo

David I. Klein

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Does Ye deserve redemption?

Jeffrey Salkin

William Barber’s ex-wife accuses him of misdirecting funds to pay her alimony

Yonat Shimron

With new campus, Pastor Doug Wilson's Christian Valhalla grows in Idaho

Tracy Simmons

MOSCOW, Idaho (FāVS News) — Wilson's expanding infrastructure puts him at the center of a larger debate about the role of faith in public life reaching from small-town Idaho to the highest levels of government.

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St. John’s University partnership with US border protection divides campus

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Berliners are rediscovering their faith outdoors through local pilgrimages

Elissa Mardiney

PCA leader Bryan Chapell offers to resign after ‘scandalizers’ flap

Bob Smietana

Opinion

Hajj pilgrims leaving the US this week face an anxious homecoming

Dilshad Ali

Opinion

Watching Rome from Chicagoland: Muslims measure new pope’s promise

Anna Piela

Samuel Rodriguez

Jesus’ prayer for unity still echoes. Are we listening?

(RNS) — Let’s recognize and celebrate areas where evangelicals and Catholics can forge a path of collaboration — without diluting doctrine or surrendering integrity.

Avi Shafran

I’m not an antinatalist. But, as a rabbi, I do get where they’re coming from.

(RNS) — The Talmud even concedes it is hard to justify the existence of humanity. Yet here we are.

Omar Suleiman

Leqaa Kordia: The forgotten prisoner

(RNS) — Kordia’s case is a warning: Speak out, and we will find you. Protest, and we will lock you away.

What Peru’s Virgen de la Puerta represents about unity and inclusion

Caitlin Cipolla-McCulloch

(The Conversation) — Peruvians − including non-Catholics, some members of the LGBTQ+ community and others who are marginalized − also revere the Virgen de la Puerta.

The Supreme Court rejects a plea to block a copper mine on land in Arizona that’s sacred to Apaches

Mark Sherman

WASHINGTON (AP) — The justices left in place lower court decisions allowing the transfer of the Tonto National Forest land, known as Oak Flat, to Resolution Copper, which plans to mine what it says is the second-largest known copper deposit in the world.

Thousands of Israeli nationalists chant ‘death to Arabs’ during annual procession through Jerusalem

Julia Frankel

JERUSALEM (AP) — The march commemorates Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem, including the Old City and its holy sites sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims, in the 1967 Mideast war.

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