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Why the Israel rally in DC mattered

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 15, 2023
(RNS) — A historic day and its placards tell a very big Jewish story.

Residents of Chicago’s Ukrainian Village rally on steps of church as Russia invades Ukraine

By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 25, 2022
CHICAGO (RNS) — The church is where many Ukrainians turn when there’s trouble, according to one person at the demonstration.

As activists rally, hymns of protest rise again

By Adelle M. Banks — August 8, 2018
(RNS) — Just like the music of the civil rights movement, old and new songs are often led by people of faith and sometimes refashioned to appeal to people of a range of backgrounds.

As a rabbi, I will violate the Sabbath to help save lives from gun violence

By Joshua Hammerman — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — Yes, this march is so important that I — a rabbi — am going to blatantly disrupt God’s holy Sabbath. But if the ancient rabbinic sages are to be believed, that’s precisely what God wants me to do.

A pastor’s encounter with the ‘demonic’ at Trump’s Florida rally

By Lauren Markoe — February 22, 2017
(RNS) It began to go bad very quickly, when first lady Melania Trump read the Lord's Prayer to the crowd.

German Muslims rally for tolerance amid rising anti-Muslim protests

By Mihret Yohannes — January 13, 2015
BERLIN (RNS) The Central Council of Muslims in Germany and other Muslim groups organized the rally with the slogan “Let’s be there for each other. Terror: not in our name!”

London rally will call for zero tolerance of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia

By Trevor Grundy — August 29, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The rally comes against the backdrop of a worrying rise in European anti-Semitism and the release of a report by the Community Security Trust that monitors attacks on the Jewish community.

Ultra-Orthodox protest military draft law in Jerusalem

By Michele Chabin — March 3, 2014
(RNS) The rally, part protest, part prayer vigil, was organized by the religious and political leadership of the insular haredi (ultra-Orthodox) community in Israel, which strongly opposes mandatory conscription on the grounds that it would tear yeshiva students from their full-time religious studies.

Photo slideshow: ‘Nun sense’ vs. ‘nonsense’

By Sally Morrow — June 20, 2012

More than 200 Catholics from Kansas City, Mo., wore white and held signs to honor American nuns on Tuesday, June 19. Many attendees said they were there to support and thank the sisters, who are under a Vatican crackdown. The event was organized by local residents and the nationwide organization Call to Action, a liberal lay Catholic movement. Photos by Sally Morrow/RNS.

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