Religion
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DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor. A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota, one of the protest’s organizers, shows a…
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USCCB President Paul Coakley meets with Trump, Vance at White House
(RNS) — Archbishop Paul Coakley, the recently elected president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, met with President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and other officials at the White House on Monday (Jan. 12). It marks the first time a U.S. president has met with the president of the bishops’ conference in nearly a decade. According to…
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Tending to ‘rough sleepers’ and finding Heschel’s radical amazement
(RNS) — The doors to St. Andrew’s Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which open at 7:30 a.m. on weekdays, opened to a crowd that had been gathering since 6 a.m. in the autumn chill. They were there for a hot breakfast. I was at the church with my daughter, Anna, a fourth-year medical student, one of a team of three…
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Religious-themed brick sets hold appeal for both children and adults in digital age
(RNS) — Sean Sutton was preaching at a small Bible camp in Georgia last year when he noticed a group of children and young adults focusing intently on building a small model of the tabernacle — they were using bricks repurposed from a Lego Minecraft set to recreate the tent-like sanctuary that housed the ark of the covenant, described in…
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Why do some people stay in their religion and others leave? A new Pew report has some clues.
(RNS) — Americans who had a positive religious experience as kids are most likely to keep the same faith as adults. Those who had negative experiences are most likely to change faiths or give up on religion. And while a majority (56%) of Americans still identify with their childhood faith, a third (35%) have switched — including 20% who now…
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Inside the push to bring mental health care into American mosques
(RNS and NPR) — Sabrina Ali grew up in a South Asian home in Canton, a multicultural suburb of Detroit, and said she learned from a young age that she couldn’t talk about her mental health struggles with her immigrant parents. “It was like they just came from a totally different world … and for them it was like, ‘Well,…
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Pope Leo’s visit to psychiatric hospital aims to combat stigma in strugglingLebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon (RNS) – For Eissam, a 24-year-old Lebanese man who is battling drug addiction, the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross in Jal ed Dib, just North of Beirut, and the Catholic nuns who run it are nothing short of family. “The sisters here are like our sisters and brothers and mothers and parents for us. They care about us,”…
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Pope to be tested on first trip to Turkey and Lebanon
(RNS) — While Americans are recovering from their Thanksgiving dinners, Pope Leo will be flying to Turkey and then Lebanon. His first international trip, these five days abroad will show whether Leo is ready for primetime on a global stage. The trip has two major themes: ecumenism and peace. The trip to Turkey was planned by Pope Francis to celebrate…
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Harlem spiritual leader and political luminary Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid dies at 74
(RNS) — Imam Al-Hajj Talib Abdur-Rashid, the longtime leader of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem and a pillar of the African American Muslim community in New York City and beyond, has died at 74. Abdur-Rashid, or Imam Talib, as he was known to his community and to Muslims across the country, died Saturday (Nov. 15) in Harlem. No…
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