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Catholic legal aid group for immigrants nears collapse as US withholds funds
EL PASO, Texas (RNS and El Paso Matters) — For 40 years, a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso has provided legal assistance to hundreds of thousands of immigrants. Now, the ministry, Estrella del Paso, says the Trump administration’s refusal to pay more than...
The conservative Christian women turning moral urgency into political power
(RNS) — “If I perish, I perish.” That’s the chant sociologist Katie Gaddini heard echoing from the National Mall in October 2024, weeks before President Donald Trump was elected a second time. Raised an evangelical, Gaddini knew the reference — Esther 4:16, a Bible...
On July 4th, Pope Leo asks United States, Europe: Who is your neighbor?
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – This 4th of July, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence, the first American-born pope chose to spend the day in the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, a symbol of the immigrant influx polarizing...
As US turns 250, Pope Leo says liberty is represented through life, immigrants and faith
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV marked the United States’ 250th anniversary by calling his home country back to its founding ideals during a speech in which he defined liberty through protecting human life, welcoming immigrants and supporting religious freedom and...
Great American State Fair spends a day focused on faith on National Mall
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A week into the 16-day Great American State Fair, gospel music could be heard in one section of the National Mall and rodeo calls on the other. Bible verses were recited from one stage while songs like “Macho Man” played on the speakers elsewhere....
‘God commands us not to kill’: Faith leaders protest 50 years of executions
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In her first years attending a fast marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that resumed the modern-day death penalty in the United States, SueZann Bosler was still on medication to treat the effects of being stabbed in the head by the...
Reeling from Venezuela’s earthquakes, churches rush to inspect buildings, distribute supplies
(RNS) — The day after twin earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela, Presbyterian Pastor Ricardo Corzo Moreno was doing two jobs at once: calming his family through the aftershocks and helping launch a 24-hour prayer and collection center for survivors. For days after...
SSPX defies Pope Leo, Vatican issues excommunication
ÉCÔNE, Switzerland (RNS) — A group of traditionalist Catholics directly defied Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday (July 1) by ordaining four new bishops without his consent, calling it their “sacred duty” during a ritual-laden ceremony at the society’s seminary in the Swiss...
How some in Palestinian diaspora find connection, identity and resilience in traditional embroidery
Decades later, Samar Kabouli still fondly recalls gathering with women in her family and sipping cardamom-spiced coffee as they embroidered fabric with colorful threads in traditional Palestinian patterns. Born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees, Kabouli had never...
San Francisco Archdiocese agrees to pay $395 million to settle child sex abuse lawsuits
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese has agreed to pay $395 million to settle more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by church officials, plaintiffs’ attorneys said Monday. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will have to...
PCUSA, American Academy of Religion call Gaza war a genocide
(RNS) — The largest Presbyterian denomination in the United States voted Tuesday evening (June 30) to recognize Israel’s war in Gaza as a genocide, two days after the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) unanimously voted to divest from Palantir Technologies and General...
The Bible verses dividing Washington: How Matthew 25 became a political litmus test
WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia walked into Speaker Mike Johnson’s office last month, the two men already held starkly different political views. By the time the meeting ended 30 minutes later, it was clear they also sit on different ends of...