'Not a day off': For Juneteenth, some faith leaders promote political causes

Jewish groups rally in support of Milwaukee Muslim leader detained in ICE jail

(RNS) — Progressive Jewish advocacy organizations condemn what they view as a misguided attempt to fight antisemitism by targeting Palestinian permanent residents, such as Salah Sarsour.

Israel signals status quo shake-up over Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron

(RNS) — The site, known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque and to Jews as Ma’arat HaMakhpela — the Cave of the Patriarchs, in English — is the second-most-sacred site to both Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land.

My father carried his Holocaust story his entire life. He never asked us to carry it, too.

(RNS) — It was only as an adult living with my own family that I learned about my father’s youth.

'They have already suffered enough': Central African clergy respond to US deportation

(RNS) — Faith leaders say they would welcome migrants deported from the United States but question the decision to send vulnerable people without ties to a nation still healing from years of sectarian violence.

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, Catholic power broker in Italy’s culture wars, dies at 95

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A close ally of St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, Ruini led the Italian bishops through some of the country’s fiercest battles over secularism, bioethics and the church’s role in public life.