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(RNS) — ‘Everyone’s still kind of rattled and trying to figure things out,’ said the Rev. Joshua Messick, who has Bibles ‘in every conceivable language’ to distribute upon request.
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(RNS) — According to the research, attending a religious service frequently positively influences characteristics from happiness and ability to make social relationships to physical health.
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(RNS) — A missed opportunity for the first Jew on a major-party presidential ticket.
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(RNS) — For the first time, all 12 people who had their feet washed by the pope were women.
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(The Conversation) — Hundreds of thousands of visitors come to the Santuario de Chimayó throughout the year, but the pilgrimage during the week before the celebration of Easter is the high point.
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(The Conversation) — A Christian Palestinian human rights scholar who grew up in Bethlehem writes about the special time of Easter, but also about the restrictions on Palestinian Christians.
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(The Conversation) — Ideas about resurrection had been developing for centuries before Jesus’ life, but his followers took them in new directions.
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(AP) — The allegations are the latest against people associated with Christian boarding schools in Missouri.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Among Israel’s Jewish majority, mandatory military service is largely seen as a melting pot and rite of passage. The ultra-Orthodox say that integrating into the army will threaten their generations-old way of life.
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