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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...