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A Catholic schoolteacher takes on a new role: activist

By Catherine O'Donnell

c. 2014 Religion News Service SAMMAMISH, Wash. (RNS) A lifelong Roman Catholic, Mark Zmuda took a job as a teacher at Eastside Catholic School in part because...

Church of England’s call for dialogue on gays rebuffed in Africa

By Trevor Grundy and Fredrick Nzwili

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Ahead of his five-day visit to Africa, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby issued a statement reminding Anglicans of the...

Top brass say they’re not aware of bias against military chaplains

By Adelle M. Banks

c. 2014 Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Lawmakers peppered Pentagon officials on Wednesday (Jan. 29) about claims that military chaplains have faced...

Near St. Peter’s, an ancient burial site opens to the public

By Eric J. Lyman

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) In the first century B.C., a grassy hillside just north of what is now St. Peter’s Square was used as a...

Ruling may force Ireland to revamp Catholic school monopoly

By Jennifer Collins

c. 2014 Religion News Service DUBLIN (RNS) For years, many Irish parents sought to school their children outside the Roman Catholic Church, which dominates the...

Animal rights activists push Vatican not to release doves ‘to certain death’

By Eric J. Lyman

c. 2014 Religion News Service ROME (RNS) After two doves released by Pope Francis and two young children were attacked by aggressive predator birds, a leading...

Vial of Pope John Paul II’s blood stolen from Italian church

By Eric J. Lyman

c. 2014 Religion News Service ROME (RNS) A vial containing the blood of the late Pope John Paul II was stolen from a village church in a mountainous area east...

Pope Francis meets scandal-scarred French President Francois Hollande

By Eric J. Lyman

c. 2014 Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) French President Francois Hollande, embroiled in a controversy surrounding an alleged affair with an actress...

Central African Republic’s top clerics call for peacekeepers

By Elizabeth Bryant

c. 2014 Religion News Service PARIS (RNS) The Central African Republic’s top Muslim and Christian clerics called Thursday (Jan. 23) for a United Nations...

Green burials reflect a shift to care for the body and soul

By Lauren Markoe

c. 2014 Religion News Service (RNS) Growing up in small-town Georgia, John B. Johnson had family friends who ran the funeral home down the street, so the...

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