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COMMENTARY: Stepping in when politicians step aside

By Tom Ehrich

c. 2013 Religion News Service POLAND, Ohio (RNS) A straggle of kids came up for children’s time at Poland Presbyterian Church, a 211-year-old...

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Teaching Congolese refugees self-sufficiency gains nun U.N. recognition

By Fredrick Nzwili

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Angélique Namaika, a Roman Catholic nun, rides a bicycle on the rutted roads of the Democratic Republic of...

Pope Francis tells the poor: ‘Don’t let yourselves be robbed of hope’

By Eric J. Lyman

c. 2013 Religion News Service ROME (RNS) Pope Francis criticized what he called the “idolatry of money” on Sunday (Sept. 22) in a trip to one of...

Five things we learned about Pope Francis from his blockbuster interview

By David Gibson

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Pope Francis’ comments this week on everything from gays to abortion (less talk, more mercy), the hierarchy (be...

U.S. asks Supreme Court to review Hobby Lobby’s birth control mandate challenge

By Sarah Pulliam Bailey

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Federal officials have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the government mandate that private companies offer employees...

N.C. clergy seek release of Senate report on torture

By Amanda Greene

c. 2013 Religion News Service WILMINGTON, N.C. (RNS) Citing the need for transparency in the U.S. record on human rights, nearly 200 clergy and religious...

ANALYSIS: Pope Francis stuns the church. But will it have a lasting effect?

By David Gibson

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) Pope Francis on Thursday (Sept. 19) rocked the Catholic Church and surprised the wider world with a free-ranging interview...

Excerpts from Pope Francis’ explosive new interview

By David Gibson

c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) In a lengthy, wide-ranging interview with journalists from his own Jesuit order, Pope Francis makes a number of stunningly...

As denominations decline, numbers of unpaid ministers rise

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c. 2013 Religion News Service (RNS) The 50 members of All Saints Episcopal Church in Hitchcock, Texas, are looking forward to December, when Mark Marmon will...

Italy shocked by affair between young Gypsy and elderly priest

By Eric J. Lyman

c. 2013 Religion News Service ROME (RNS) An illicit relationship that began in the confessional between an elderly Italian priest and a Gypsy woman from...

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