by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — A federal judge ruled Friday (July 10) that a 5-year-old girl must be returned to her mother, an Iranian refugee living in Turkey, ending an international custody battle with the girl’s father, Saeed Abedini, an evangelical pastor and once a religious freedom...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Religion
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) — Amid the recent killings of two immigrants by immigration enforcement agents, around 100 religious leaders from across the country staged a protest outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention center on Monday (July 13) afternoon, demanding the...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Religion
LONDON (AP) — A series of arson and vandalism attacks on Jewish sites in Britain were the work of a proxy group backed by Iran, the U.K. government said Monday. The government said it is banning the group behind the attacks, the Islamic Movement of the Companions of...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Religion
Peyvand Naimi has spent more than six months in an Iranian prison, accused of killing state security agents during nationwide protests, although his family says no formal charges or evidence have been presented. “The Baha’is will not be released,” the family says it...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — When the news broke that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had been shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent as he drove his construction crew to work in Houston last week, a Vatican representative was meeting with immigrant families at a Houston...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 13, 2026 | Religion
AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) — It was just past 9 p.m. on June 22, during the Texas State Board of Education meeting, when Shaimaa Zayan, operations manager for the Council on American-Islamic Relations’s Austin chapter, was called up to testify. She braced herself, knowing...
