Learning what a trip to Jewish Poland has to teach

Iranian Christian refugee wins custody battle against Pastor Saeed Abedini, former political prisoner

(RNS) — Niloofar Aragh, an Iranian refugee living in Turkey, said Pastor Saeed Abedini abducted her 5-year-old daughter and fled the country in violation of international law. A federal judge in Virginia ordered the child returned to her mother.

Amid ICE killings, more than 100 clergy from across the US stage protest at Delaney Hall

NEWARK, New Jersey (RNS) — 'I am sick and tired of waking up every morning to see another loved one is dead,' said Charlene Walker, head of Faith in New Jersey.

AI will make war worse, Pope Leo warns

(RNS) — Technology, detached from ethics and responsibility, will make wartime decisions about life and death more rapid and impersonal, the pope writes.

UK says an Iran-backed group was behind attacks on Jewish community and bans Revolutionary Guard

LONDON (AP) — The government said it is banning the group behind the attacks, the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.

Iran persecutes its Baha’i minority fiercely in a year of protests and war, rights groups say

(AP) — This year, amid massive anti-government protests and war with the United States and Israel, the Islamic Republic has mounted a fierce crackdown on the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, human rights groups say.