Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed on Sunday to establish a mechanism to curb violence and incitement, in talks that stressed the need to prevent any disruptive actions at Jerusalem’s holy sites when Ramadan starts later this week.
Pope promotes ‘humanitarian corridors’ for asylum-seekers
Pope Francis met Saturday with thousands of refugees and charity groups hosting them in Italy as he sought to promote legal migration routes to Europe as an alternative to smuggling operations that he said have turned the Mediterranean Sea into…
Tim Keller and Beth Moore, On and Off the Stage
It is an awesome burden which the biographer takes up,” writes Elisabeth Elliot in her 1968 biography of missionary R. Kenneth Strachan.
Alarmed by their country’s political direction, more Israelis are seeking to move abroad
When Daniel Schleider and his wife, Lior, leave Israel next month, it will be for good — and with a heavy heart.
2nd Vatican official says pope OK’d ransom payments for nun
A second high-ranking Holy See official told a Vatican court on Friday that Pope Francis had authorized spending hundreds of thousands of euros in ransom payments to try to free a nun who was kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali.
Across the country, a push to observe Muslim holidays in school calendars
Instead of fully enjoying celebrations for Eid al-Fitr, the festival that marks the end of Ramadan, Aisha Majdoub has often found herself preoccupied, wondering what her classmates were doing or thinking about missed schoolwork as she tried to commemorate the…
Far-right Israeli minister finds enemy in JDC, the mainstream American Jewish aid group
An American Jewish group that has provided aid to Jewish communities in crisis for more than a century has become the target of one of Israel’s newly empowered far-right ministers.
Charter school movement divided over religious Oklahoma proposal
The Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has created a schism in the charter school movement with its application for the nation’s first openly religious charter school.
Racial Justice Leaders Are Calling For An End To Deadly Traffic Stops
Three racial justice leaders have joined forces to call on members of local, state and federal government to address a common issue: minor traffic stops that can escalate and result in civilians being injured or even killed.