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Baptist pastor’s baptism of a baby sets off a debate

by Heidi Hall

The New Black opens new dialogue about LGBT and religion in black community

by Kimberly Winston

At luxurious rehab center, a Saudi cure for extremism

by Taylor Luck

Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective

by Adelle M. Banks

Vatican decision to recognize Palestine upsets Israeli government, Jewish advocacy groups

by Michele Chabin

Italian navy, charity aid African migrants arriving by sea

by Rosie Scammell

Christians in decline, nones on the rise

by Cathy Lynn Grossman

Aid agencies suspend operations as church leaders work to end conflict in South Sudan

by Fredrick Nzwili

Joining panel on poverty, Obama cites ‘transformative power’ that faith groups have

by Cathy Lynn Grossman

U.S. and Israeli Jews learn how to purify the dead

by Michele Chabin

Folk religions thrive with women's spirit

by Cathy Lynn Grossman

Sister Helen Prejean: Tsarnaev ‘genuinely sorry for what he did’

by G. Jeffrey MacDonald

Liberia’s United Methodists keep ban on divorced clergy becoming bishops

by Fredrick Nzwili

Church offers a place to mourn pregnancy loss, infant death

by Lauren Markoe

Muslim Kosovars rediscover their long-forgotten Roman Catholic roots

by Valerie Plesch

Gil Caldwell, a ‘foot soldier’ for civil rights, turns his eye to LGBT rights

by Adelle M. Banks

Gustavo Gutiérrez, theologian once investigated by Vatican, now featured speaker there

by David Gibson

French rabbi asks questions others hesitate to pose about Jews and Muslims

by Sara Miller Llana

David Esterline to be next president of Pittsburgh seminary: People

5 takeaways from new international religious freedom report

(RNS) The independent watchdog panel created by Congress to monitor religious freedom conditions worldwide issued its 16th annual report last week.

by Brian Pellot

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