Religion
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Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu rejects ‘absurd’ ceasefire, approves Rafah operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a Hamas-proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal “ridiculous” and “absurd” as the Israeli War Cabinet discusses the proposal that could include the freeing of the remaining hostages in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. In the meantime, Netanyahu approved the IDF plan for a Rafah operation. Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, the executive director of Scholars…
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Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel to direct Palestinians out of Rafah ahead of offensive
Amid the unrelenting aggression by Israel the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are in desperate need for urgent aid. Washington it is working to coordinate a multinational effort that’s to set up a maritime aid corridor into Gaza and this is a part of US strategy of flooding The Zone with humanitarian assistance. Source link
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Shaun King converts to Islam
(RNS) — Shaun King, a onetime Christian pastor who has sparked controversy in the past with his strident liberal activism, converted to Islam with his wife, Rai, over the weekend. Video of King saying the shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, appeared on X Sunday evening, as did separate footage of him speaking about his embrace of Islam at the…
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It’s New York City’s moral responsibility to welcome the stranger
(RNS) — Members of my faith community, New York’s historic Middle Church, have been volunteering at the East Village Earthchxrch (pronounced “Earthchurch”), offering support to the hundreds of migrants from the United States’ southern border and elsewhere who show up every day. In the church, a glassy converted bank building, dozens of neighbors coordinate meal programs, a free store and…
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Alabama IVF decision is bad law with religious filigree
(RNS) — After the Alabama Supreme Court decided last week that an embryo is a person, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I think that the court was doing it based on the law, and I think Alabama needs to go back and look at the law.” But the decision was not actually based on the law…
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Brazilian evangelical Christians disrupt pre-Lenten partying with ‘Gospel Carnival’
A dancer from the Tom Maior samba school performs during a Carnival parade in São Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) SÃO PAULO (RNS) — The massive Saturnalia of the Brazilian Carnival, the five days of festivities, parades and public debauchery leading up to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, has not historically been a…
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How Pope Francis is recasting Catholic Church’s views on intimacy
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A recently resurfaced book by the Vatican’s doctrine czar, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, caused a stir in the Catholic world when it described orgasms as a “sublime act of worship of God.” But the book, titled “Mystical Passion: Spirituality and Sensuality” and written in the 1990s, is hardly the first time a Catholic leader — or…
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Orthodox Christian radio hosted a panel on female deacons. Then misogyny poured in.
(RNS) — Soon after the live broadcast began on Ancient Faith Radio, a media ministry aimed at Orthodox Christian listeners, the real-time commentary open to listeners on YouTube erupted with a stream of misogyny. The topic of the Jan. 30 broadcast, which included a pre-recorded radio documentary, was examining the call to restore female deacons in the Orthodox Church. Deacons make…
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Judges say lawsuit against CBN pastor Brad Jurkovich, a Mike Johnson ally, should go forward
(RNS) — A Louisiana pastor with ties to House Speaker Mike Johnson, as well as a controversial Southern Baptist movement, will be headed back to court in February. Two years ago, a group of former members of First Baptist Church of Bossier, Louisiana, sued the church and its leaders, including pastor Brad Jurkovich, claiming those leaders illegally changed the congregation’s…
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