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Rabbi hosted first pope visit to synagogue in 2,000 years. By Religion News, Reuters ROME (Reuters) Elio Toaff, the chief rabbi of Rome for half a century and a pivotal player in Christian-Jewish reconciliation, has died at the age of 99. Toaff, who a spo ...
An icon of a conservatism suddenly out of favor. By David Gibson, Religion News (RNS) The death of Cardinal Francis George at age 78 on Friday (April 17) was not unexpected. The powerful archbishop of Chicago had been battling cancer for years, and when i ...
The parents of the boy who was the youngest to die in the attack on the Boston Marathon asked federal prosecutors to abandon their effort to sentence the bomber to death. By Reuters, (Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Steve Orlofsky) BOSTON (Reuters) ...
Chinese officials repeatedly say the exiled Dalai Lama has no right to abandon reincarnation By Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) It is up to the Dalai Lama to decide whether he will be reborn, Tibetan Buddhism’s third highest religious leader said, after Chin ...
By Jacob Lupfer, Religious News WASHINGTON (RNS) The limiting of religious freedom is a perpetually contested question in American public life. Most recently, as states consider new laws and the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on same-sex marriage, ga ...
First solo, Album Real Love, project with Jesus Culture Music and Capitol Christian Music Group Hits No. 1 On Itunes’ Christian Album Charts Source: Merge PR Derek Johnson’s debut reveals his passion for message-driven songwriting to share hi ...
IRS, tax agency fails to produce records, missed legally required deadline months ago by Scott A. Shuford, Trending Christian News Alliance Defending Freedom filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Internal Revenue Service for failing to produce reco ...
by Andreas Mehrguth, e3 Legacy Every day holds a new adventure as we look out the window from our early morning leaders’ meeting and watch the sun rise over the African plain. The colors that blaze and signal the start of a new day remind us of the ...
Islamist Boko Haram militants disguised as preachers killed at least 24 people ...
The California State University (CSU) system has issued a “nondiscrimination policy” that requires InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, which has been active on U.S. college and university campuses for more than 73 years, to allow non-Christians to ...