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Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts
Pope Francis said Sunday that talks were underway to return colonial-era artifacts in the Vatican Museum that were acquired from Indigenous peoples in Canada and voiced a willingness to return other problematic objects in the Vatican’s collection on a case-by-case…
RNC chair: Republicans must address abortion issue ‘head-on’
The chair of the Republican National Committee said Sunday that Republicans must directly address abortion if they hope to succeed in 2024.
LA’s Atheist Street Pirates go national in efforts to remove illegal religious signs
It started as a small group of atheists tracking and removing religious signs from public streets in Los Angeles. Now, this network spans more than a handful of states, with volunteers documenting and taking down illegally placed religious material on…
Dragged through the mud: this little church-backed support group for LGBTQ teens suffered bomb threats, smears and the cancellation of its drag show
“Twenty years ago I thought now would be better. And it’s not.” That’s how Tiffany Vasquez, a longtime resident of Roseville, California, feels after weeks of vicious right-wing attacks on the local LGBTQ community—attacks that are part of an increasingly…
One in Four Pastors Plan to Retire Before 2030
Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, has gotten serious about raising up a new generation of pastors. Normally, the congregation produces one or two young people every couple of years who feel a call. Right now, however, 12 young men…
Black Protestant church still vital despite attendance drop
The wide empty spaces in pews between parishioners at a Sunday service at Zion Baptist Church in South Carolina’s capital highlight a post-pandemic reality common among many Black Protestant churches nationwide.
Barely Anyone Reads the Bible in Germany. So Why Are Luther Bibles Selling So Well?
Only 4 percent of Germans say they read the Bible every day, according to a poll conducted by Insa-Consulere and the German Christian news agency IDEA. A full 70 percent say they never read it at all.
In repudiation of its devastating Doctrine of Discovery, Vatican masks the history and responsibility of Catholic Church
What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent conversations about March’s joint statement from the Vatican repudiating the Doctrine of Discovery—a concept…