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(RNS) — Our hope as those who attend and lead religious institutions is to maintain our humaneness and treat others with compassion, while keeping ourselves and others safe.

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(RNS) — A chance encounter with an army chaplain put Colonel Khallid Shabazz's military career on a different path.

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(RNS) — 'Let me get this straight,' the porn-star-turned-paranormal-investigator said on Facebook. 'They are going to use my religious (beliefs) and profession to discriminate against me.'

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(RNS) — We are not helpless in our new reality.

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BERLIN (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI has acknowledged that he did attend a 1980 meeting at which the transfer of a pedophile priest to his then-diocese was discussed, saying an editorial error was responsible for his previous assertion that he wasn’t there. Authors of a report on sexual abuse between 1945 and 2019 in […]

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After a recent report accused Benedict XVI of abuse coverup, Vatican child protection expert calls for those involved to apologize.

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(RNS) — The idea 'that God and some guy have gone in on a plan for your life isn’t cute. It's creepy as all get out.'

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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Pope Francis' envoy, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chávez, called the four models an example to all.

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(AP) — At synagogues around the US, Jewish leaders marked the first Sabbath since last weekend's hostage-taking with a show of defiance against acts of antisemitism.

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BERLIN (AP) — The group — including priests, religion teachers and administrative employees — publicly outed themselves, saying they want to live without fear.

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Presbyterians for Middle East Peace

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(The Conversation) — A German report accused retired Pope Benedict XVI of mishandling several cases of sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s. Here are a few of our related articles on the Catholic Church’s crisis.

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(The Conversation) — Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, which earned him a global following, gave simple instructions on mindfulness and emphasized how it could be practiced anytime, even when doing routine chores.

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Remember "Thou shalt not bear false witness?" Some faith leaders need a brush up.

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(RNS) — 'Let me get this straight,' the porn-star-turned-paranormal-investigator said on Facebook. 'They are going to use my religious (beliefs) and profession to discriminate against me.'

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(RNS) - This week’s photo gallery includes the annual March for Life, protesting Buddhists in South Korea and more.

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Organizers condemned the presence of people affiliated with America First, whose leader is widely decried as a white nationalist.

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(RNS) — The Vietnamese Buddhist monk, described as 'the second most famous Buddhist in the world, after the Dalai Lama,' by one expert, founded a worldwide network of monastic centers.

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