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(RNS) — In August, when the University of Notre Dame renamed its Center for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Sister Thea Bowman, a sainthood candidate and Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration who was the first African American to receive the university’s prestigious Laetare Medal, there was href="https://www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025/08/notre-dame-diversity-equ...

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(RNS) — When Alex Gruber first toured St. Norbert College, a small Catholic college in Wisconsin, it immediately felt like home. As a student there, he majored in religion and history, got involved in theater and served as a lector and in the choir at the campus parish.

Gruber said he probably wouldn’t pick St. Norbert if he were going to college today. 

Th...

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NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — African Christian leaders attending a conference with faith-based health organizations in late November called for countries on the continent to do more to replace U.S. Agency for International Development funds that were cut by the Trump administration earlier this year.

“We don’t have to wait until the taps are finally locked in Europe and Amer...

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ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — While returning from his first apostolic visit to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV delivered his first press conference aboard the papal flight on Tuesday (Dec. 2), offering insight into his impressions and feelings after becoming pope.

The pope quipped that he had thought about retiring before he realized the cardinals were going to elect him ...

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (RNS) – On Aug. 4, 2020, Melvine Khoury and her brother watched curiously from the window of their home in Achrafieh as smoke and fire rose from the port of Beirut. Just as they started to evacuate, Khoury saw her brother being thrown to the other side of the house and crashing through a glass door while she was blasted to the opposite wall and covered in furn...

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