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Photos of the Week: Francis visits Asia; National Baptists meet

By Kit Doyle — September 6, 2024

(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes Pope Francis visiting Asia, the annual meeting of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. and more.

Trump’s abortion pivot hasn’t shaken evangelical Christian leaders’ support

By Jack Jenkins — September 6, 2024

(RNS) — ‘I don’t just consider a candidate’s words, I look at their actions and what they have done,’ said the Rev. Franklin Graham.

Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s life work celebrating Judaism summed up in new book

By Jeffrey Salkin — September 6, 2024

(RNS) — It is the book that you need to read right now. It will change your view of Judaism and of the world itself.

Center honoring trailblazing lawyer, civil rights activist and priest opens in Durham

By Yonat Shimron — September 6, 2024

(RNS) — Known as the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, the refurbished two-story clapboard home will further the kind of progressive social causes Murray, who died in 1985, championed.

National Baptists choose Connecticut pastor Boise Kimber as next president

By Adelle M. Banks — September 6, 2024

(RNS) — Disqualified challengers hoped sufficient ‘no’ votes would cause the election process to restart.

At Vatican, physicists and theologians join forces to answer life’s big questions

By Claire Giangravé — September 6, 2024

(RNS) — At a conference at the Vatican, physicists and theologians made the case for cooperation between faith and science.

Black church brought religion to politics in the ‘60s, but different to white Christian nationalism today

By Tobin Miller Shearer — September 6, 2024

(The Conversation) — In 1966, the assertion of Black power was grounded in an appeal to the founding principles of the United States. Black church leaders called for healing internal divisions through engagement.

The pope urges Indonesia to live up to its promise of ‘harmony in diversity’

By Edna Tarigan — September 6, 2024

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Pope Francis compared Indonesia’s human diversity to the archipelago’s 17,000 islands. He said each one contributes something specific to form “a magnificent mosaic, in which each tile is an irreplaceable element in creating a great original and precious work.”

National Baptists hear their outgoing president and Ketanji Brown Jackson as meeting ends

By Adelle M. Banks — September 5, 2024

(RNS) — Jackson described how faith, especially instilled by her now late grandmother, had undergirded her personal and professional life.

Can the Catholic Church save US health care?

By Charles C. Camosy — September 5, 2024

(RNS) — Catholics are wonderfully suited to be the agent of change.

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