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A year ago, an Iranian woman’s death sparked hijab protests. Now businesses are a new…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — For months, Iranian authorities did little to enforce the law on women covering their hair but now the country’s theocracy is pushing to make businesses the new battleground over the mandatory headscarf.
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In Portugal, Pope Francis will sow seeds of his legacy
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — When Pope Paul VI became the first pontiff to set foot in Portugal in 1967, the church and world were in turmoil.
Deep fractures spurred by the Second Vatican Council, the massive 1962-65 summit aimed at reconciling…
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Appealing to Orthodox Jews, Israeli media remove women from view
JERUSALEM (RNS) — For more than a decade, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, an Orthodox Jewish feminist, has been chronicling the gradual disappearance of women from magazines, advertisements and other media in Israel as modesty customs spread…
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Argentina archbishop says he made mistakes in handling abuse allegations against priest
LA PLATA, Argentina (AP) — Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández, chosen by Pope Francis to head the Vatican office that ensures doctrinal orthodoxy, conceded Sunday he made mistakes in handling a 2019 case of a priest accused of sexual…
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The Supreme Court’s colorblindness
(RNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject the race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina comes in a year of 60th anniversaries in American civil rights history. Martin Luther…
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Convalescing Pope Francis holds talks with Cuba’s president at Vatican
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis, in his first full week back at the Vatican following abdominal surgery, met on Tuesday with Cuba’s president, part of the Holy See’s attention to the communist-led Caribbean island nation.
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How Pat Robertson made white evangelicals Republican
(RNS) — After Pat Robertson astonished the political world by beating out Vice President George H.W. Bush for second place in the 1988 Iowa Republican caucus (Sen. Bob Dole of nearby Kansas was first), I found myself opining on New York…
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Celebrating Trans and Nonbinary People and Their Families, a new book from Skinner House, highlights…
Publishing imprint of the Unitarian Universalist Association publishes spiritual, religious books reflecting progressive values
BOSTON — The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is celebrating the publication of Authentic Selves:…
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Israeli protesters fear for their country’s precarious LGBTQ rights revolution
(The Conversation) — Demonstrations against the Israeli government’s efforts to radically overhaul the country’s judicial system have become a weekly occurrence. Often rainbow pride banners pop with color amid the sea of blue and white…
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Is “Succession” Jewish?
The story of “Succession” seems like Shakespeare. Or, like Greek tragedy. And a little Bible as well.
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