RELIGION

A dictator’s shadow is a roadblock for justice, but a few keep up the fight
- By West virginia digital
- . January 28, 2025
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — Despite being ousted in 1989 after a 35-year reign of terror, during which 20,000 people were

Ohio pastor convicted in dispute over sheltering homeless vows to continue his mission
- By West virginia digital
- . January 28, 2025
BRYAN, Ohio (AP) — For more than a year, a pastor who opened his church around the clock to shelter

Thank you, Vice President Vance
- By West virginia digital
- . January 28, 2025
(RNS) — Vice President J.D. Vance has done what the U.S. bishops have been incapable of doing: He has made

Killed for fighting corruption, a Congolese man made a martyr is inspiring a new generation
- By West virginia digital
- . January 28, 2025
GOMA, Congo (AP) — When Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi was asked in 2007 to allow spoiled rice from Rwanda

Faith groups say they’ll help refugees despite Trump order. But they’ll need help.
- By West virginia digital
- . January 27, 2025
(RNS) — Jalil Dawood, pastor of the Arabic Church of Dallas, thanks God every day for the U.S. government’s refugee

Supreme Court will weigh approval for US’ 1st publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma
- By West virginia digital
- . January 27, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first

Management, not ministry, for Catholic women
- By West virginia digital
- . January 27, 2025
(RNS) — Noting that women are better managers than men, Pope Francis announced he is adding another woman to his

What does it mean to commemorate the Holocaust in 2025?
- By West virginia digital
- . January 27, 2025
(RNS) — On Jan. 27, people around the world will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the anniversary of the

It has been 80 years since Auschwitz
- By West virginia digital
- . January 27, 2025
(RNS) — It was a “one size fits all” day of Jewish mourning. That is what I remember about the

Written at Auschwitz, music provides a haunting score to Holocaust remembrance
- By West virginia digital
- . January 27, 2025
LONDON (RNS) — When the Roma violinist Jakub Segar arrived at Auschwitz, the concentration camp’s guards ordered him to strip