After a decade of over 2,000 often gruesome animal cruelty cases, Matty Giuliano traded his badge for a stole and began volunteering as an animal chaplain. Recently, his ministry has taken an unexpected turn: ferret advocacy.
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Supporters and critics agree on one thing: Modi has achieved staying power by making Hindu nationalism acceptable — desirable, even — to a nation of 1.4 billion that for decades prided itself on pluralism and secularism.
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This year, Alon Gat is struggling with how to reconcile a holiday commemorating freedom after his mother was slain and other family members abducted when Hamas attacked Israel.
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The teen spoke in Arabic about the Prophet Muhammad being insulted after he stabbed Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and the Rev. Isaac Royel during Monday night's Assyrian Orthodox service, which was being streamed online.
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OPINION: The loss to local communities is likely to be substantial.
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The Rev. Hkalam Samson was among the 3,300 prisoners released nationwide on Wednesday to mark the traditional Thingyan New Year holiday.
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OPINION: Over the course of the last 12 years, the church has grown by just shy of 17% overall, or about 1.4% annually on average. But over that period, the number of new children of record has dropped by almost a quarter.
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Kopenawa, who wore a traditional feathered headdress and beads around his neck, told reporters he gave Francis a letter laying out the concerns of the Yanomami. He said he asked for Francis to support Lula to try to fix the previous government’s “error”.
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OPINION: An LDS church leader recently said that garment rules were getting stricter because of the laxity of young women. Let’s expand that to 'young people.'
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The declaration commits Christian leaders to preaching on moral issues and rejecting a political movement it says is exploiting traditional values to undermine democracy.
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OPINION: 'Better to pretend certitude than acknowledge ignorance. And if you later discover you were wrong, never admit it. Plow forward and pretend your new position is consistent with everything you said in the past.'
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In her new memoir, Nancy French tells how Donald Trump and a pair of Davids changed the course of her life.
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'Our bodies recognize that we’re being activated and pushed into trauma responses and that the same abusive techniques are being used on us,' said author Tia Levings.
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Rabbis for Human Rights has invested more in interfaith dialogue and prayers in the hopes of finding common ground between Jews, Muslims and other minorities in Israel.
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This week, on Saved by the City's 100th episode, RNS's Vatican reporter Claire Giangrave gives Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone the inside scoop on the contentious conversations around women's ordination in the Catholic Church. Listen at the link below:
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In her new book, 'Forgiveness after Trauma,' Susannah Griffith writes that Christians often misapply forgiveness, especially in cases of abuse.
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Calvin University hired a business exec two years ago as their new president – in hopes of turning the school’s fortunes around. His tenured ended with misconduct, a lawsuit, and a alleged threat of violence.
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OPINION: Patel wanted his movie — which was co-produced by Jordan Peele — to highlight India’s social inequalities. But he admits that he’s fascinated by Hanuman’s superhero mystique.
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Pope Francis on Saturday sided with a group of Peruvian villagers who have complained that companies linked to a powerful South American church group have tried to evict them from their land.
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OPINION: If antisemitism is a test, what does it mean for a college to fail?
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