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… President Omer al-Bashir that "religion is more lasting than people … conflict of interest between the religion and people, people should go … the people are loving their religion, and most of them observe … is haraam (forbidden by the religion)" and that the State …

Saturday Jan 19, 2019 at 9:00 AM 'Loss of Spouse' session is Jan. 30 GALESBURG — "Loss of a Spouse" is a one-time GriefShare seminar that will be held Jan. 30 in the chapel at First United Methodist Church 120 N. Kellogg St., Galesburg. …

NEW YORK (JTA) — A decade ago, the publisher of the Jewish Daily Forward asked his board to believe in miracles. “We are supposed to believe in miracles; we are forbidden to rely on them, ” Sam Norich wrote in an email to the board of the Forward …

(JTA) — Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council passed a resolution saying its members cannot partner with Jewish groups that are anti-Zionist, setting up a showdown with one of its members, the local branch of the Workmen’s Circle. The resolution, …

(JTA) — For 30 years, Mike Jacobs wrote beautiful songs that no one outside his family ever got to hear because he didn’t think they were good enough to promote. But two weeks after Jacobs died of esophageal cancer, one of his earliest numbers is bringing …

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, was named this week to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a significant “get” for a first-term lawmaker and an assignment that will make for some interesting theater. Omar is one of two new …

(JTA) — “Israel Will Be The Great Foreign Policy Debate Of The Democratic Primary” is a BuzzFeed article making the rounds. The broad premise is one with which JTA readers are familiar: Democrats are becoming more disenchanted with Israel for myriad …

We want to work together. Last year, I travelled across Canada, gathering with Mennonite Brethren pastors, leaders, and interested members. As we met, from Sainte-Rose in the suburbs of Montreal to Neighbourhood Church on the Island in B.C., you told us …

… Americans? [Ken Briggs reported on religion for Newsday and The New …

On Jan. 3, the opening moments of the 116th Congress saw Sharice Davids (D-Kansas), a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, and Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico), a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, sworn in. Once nobodies, they are now political somebodies. So also are …

A prominent and popular Chicago priest, who for more than three decades headed a five-campus child services organization, has been removed from ministry while the Chicago Archdiocese reviews allegations of sexual abuse of minors against him. Allegations …

… "regardless of their sex, religion, sexual orientation, geographical origin…

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Robert Archie knows he'd be homeless if it wasn't for the Rapid Re-housing program run by Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Trenton, New Jersey. A data specialist with the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Archie has …

WASHINGTON (CNS) — The ritual sights of the annual March for Life never seem to change. Tens of thousands congregate on the National Mall on a brisk winter morning. Many of them have arrived after hours on the road as part of bus caravans. They listen to …

… not belong to any particular religion, caste, or language. Addressing a … politics based on caste or religion and theirs was a politics … caste or religion... We never did politics on caste, religion and language … not belong to any particular religion, caste, or language. This country …

Editor’s note: The following is a commentary on the Child Victims Act from Bishop Robert J. Cunningham. By Most Rev. Robert J. Cunningham | Bishop of the Diocese of Syracuse This past December, I made the decision to release a list of clergy credibly …

by Olivia Martin olivia.martin@theleaven.org LEAWOOD — Reflections on the daily Mass readings, special Advent prayers, the Liturgy of the Hours, novenas, Marian devotions — the list of Catholic prayers and tools to deepen one’s spiritual life is as long …

… a care for their race, religion, colour or creed. In resuscitating …

… religion, The Age of Reason, he called for a revolution in religion … revolution in the system of religion. The adulterous connection of church … revolution in the system of religion would follow. Human inventions and … violence would be virtually nonexistent. Religion determines the beliefs of billions …

Receiving recognition from the diocesan Office of Catholic Schools for 2018-2019 are, from left: Msgr. Brian Brownsey, pastor of St. Mark Parish in Peoria, Distinguished School Pastor of the Year; Eileen Lohr, longtime kindergarten teacher at St. Vincent …