As Pope Leo XIV approaches his first Easter as pontiff, his leadership style is coming into sharper focus — and it’s both familiar and distinct.
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Until Monday, capital punishment for murder had been outlawed in Israel since 1954.
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As Passover begins this evening, a new poll shows that a majority of American Jews oppose the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, even as 90% of them say they oppose the Iranian regime.
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Beyond accompaniment In March, RNS reporter Aleja Hertzler-McCain traveled to El Paso, Texas, to shadow two Catholic sisters as they accompanied detained migrants and their families in immigration court.
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“My name is Clavicular. I’m 20 years old. I believe in looksmaxxing — the idea of maximizing physical attractiveness by any means necessary in order to ascend.”
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Pope Leo XIV will travel on Saturday from Vatican City, the world’s smallest country, to Monaco, the second smallest. Extending just over 0.81 square miles and with a population of 38,000 people, Monaco exerts an outsized influence in Europe and the world.
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A few years ago, the Islamic Society of Baltimore began taking its social media presence seriously, mostly to bring more people to the mosque.
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When CNN aired its latest documentary on Doug Wilson and the Christian nationalist movement on Sunday night, it was news to many Americans — but not to residents of Moscow, Idaho, who have lived with Wilson’s influence for decades.
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“It’s unusual for a president to continue a signature White House office of his predecessor of a different political party,” said Melissa Rogers, twice director of the White House faith-based office.
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When Italian Olympic speedskating champion Francesca Lollobrigida brought her energetic young son to on-camera interviews, keyboard warriors came for her parenting choices.
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Next Tuesday at noon ET, RNS will host a live conversation about the rise of the religious left in America. Clergy from across faith traditions have become a visible presence in the national debate over immigration enforcement, and RNS has been covering this moment closely.
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“I grew up very religious, often with very black-and-white thinking,” Menachem Freeman, a New York City-based coach who incorporates Judaism into his fitness training, told RNS correspondent Kyle Desrosiers-Levine.
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The holy month of Ramadan, traditionally a time of abundance and communal gathering, looks different for many Muslim detainees inside Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities: Leftover ramen, bedsheets as prayer mats and Qurans unavailable in their languages.
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That's the question underpinning the triumphant return of Saved by the City.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott fought long and hard for the state’s new school voucher program, which includes $1 billion that parents can tap for private education. The catch: no Islamic schools have been deemed eligible.
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Last week, Israel shuttered major holy sites in Jerusalem, including the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, out of concern, authorities said, for residents’ safety as Iran retaliates. #RNSMorningReport #ReligionNewsService
As thousands of immigrants deported from the U.S. to Latin America find their footing, faith-based relief organizations are operating with far fewer resources thanks to federal cutbacks.
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When gunmen stormed his Nigerian hamlet, Pastor Emmanuel Ochefu told RNS correspondent Tonny Onyulo they came for his congregation and other Christians. “We cannot pretend that our faith is not part of why we are targeted,” said Ochefu.
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FRead RNS National Reporter Ulaa Kuziez’s explainer on why some celebrated as others mourned. #RNSMorningReport #ReligionNewsService
“I think this is another piece of evidence about how there is no religious revival happening in America.”
That’s Ryan Burge, political scientist, talking to RNS national reporter Yonat Shimron about Gallup’s latest poll assessing religiosity in the U.S.
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Read Kathryn Post's full coverage of the starseeds, government plots, and alien auras of New Age's new age. #RNSMorningReport #ReligionNewsService
The US Catholic bishops spent the past year condemning the Trump administration’s immigration policies, straying from the abortion issue as the “preeminent priority” of their political engagement.
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Read more below about how DC is emerging as a center of Black Jewish life in the United States.
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Ramadan glow-up
Every Christmas season as her neighborhood sparkled with festive lights, a Muslim mother of two told RNS national reporter Ulaa Kaziz, her children asked the same question: “Mama and baba, why don’t we decorate for Christmas?”
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