Religion

(RNS) — In Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Michigan, President Joe Biden celebrated a victory, but it was tainted by the choice of 13% of those who voted to declare themselves “uncommitted” to protest the president’s handling of the war…
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 This weekend, movie-goers across the country are making their way to theaters for the new film “God & Country,” the latest project from Rob Reiner exploring the role of Christian nationalism in American society. Among the experts…
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(RNS) — Not long ago, I stood in my front yard and did something I’d been procrastinating about for months. I put up a yard sign. It’s a simple sign — a heart, decorated with stars and stripes, sits on a background above five simple…
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NEW YORK (RNS) — The dinner menu last Friday, (Jan. 26), at Ayat, a restaurant in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, included a dish that might be called a special for the Palestinian eatery: challah, the voluminous woven bread that is a staple of…
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(RNS) — The consecration of a temple to the Hindu god Ram, in the northern Indian city said to be his birthplace, will be marked with state-sponsored fanfare this weekend, completing a yearslong transformation of a once sleepy village…
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(RNS) — If you are Jewish — and, frankly, even if you are not — think about the last time you attended a Passover Seder. You will recall that moment in the Seder when it’s time to recite the plagues that fell upon the land of Egypt. Many…
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(RNS) — I’m trying something different this year with my end-of-year list of the major news stories. I’m organizing it into two categories for the two kinds of people who seem to write to me: the über-Saints who only want to hear good…
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ATLANTA (RNS) — Twenty minutes outside downtown Atlanta, Vinings Lake sits along a humming thoroughfare connecting Veterans Memorial Highway to the affluent suburbs north of the city. With its white steeple and brick exterior, it could…
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ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation and will scale back some appointments, but he doesn’t have pneumonia or fever, the Vatican said Monday. Francis himself on Sunday revealed that…
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(RNS) — The End Times are not a topic Robert Jeffress needs much prompting to talk about. But when war broke out between Israel and Hamas on Oct. 7, the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Dallas, and a national figure among…
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