(RNS) — Journalist Peter Beinart is one of the American Jewish community’s foremost critics of Israel, admired and followed by many on the Jewish left and reviled by those on the right. In his latest book, “Being Jewish After the...
(FaVS) — Idaho could become one of the first states to ban marriage for same-sex couples if the state’s legislative push to challenge federal protections succeeds. The House State Affairs Committee voted 13-2 last week to advance House Joint Memorial...
Orthodoxy Now magazine is designed to serve as a dynamic platform for faith-based engagement. WASHINGTON — The Orthodox Christian Network (OCN) is thrilled to announce the release of the new edition of Orthodoxy Now, an online magazine publication dedicated to...
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Despite being ousted in 1989 after a 35-year reign of terror, during which 20,000 people were tortured, executed or disappeared, some Paraguayans feel as if Gen. Alfredo Stroessner never truly left. “This is probably the only...
(RNS) — Vice President J.D. Vance has done what the U.S. bishops have been incapable of doing: He has made their position on migrants and refugees national news. I have not seen such a fortuitous political blunder since General Alexander...
(RNS) — Jalil Dawood, pastor of the Arabic Church of Dallas, thanks God every day for the U.S. government’s refugee resettlement program, which helped him settle in the United States after he fled persecution during the Iran-Iraq War in the...
(The Conversation) — As part of Harvard University’s agreement in response to two federal lawsuits filed by Jewish students alleging antisemitic discrimination, it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, or IHRA, “working definition” of antisemitism. This is a definition...
BRYAN, Ohio (AP) — For more than a year, a pastor who opened his church around the clock to shelter and give hope to homeless people has been at odds with an Ohio city over the building housing his ministry....
(RNS) — Noting that women are better managers than men, Pope Francis announced he is adding another woman to his administrative staff, naming Franciscan Sister Raffaella Petrini to succeed retiring Spanish Cardinal Fernando Vérgez Alzaga as president of the Governatorate...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma...
