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Topics: Justice | Religion
U.S. Jews use the day of lament to cry out to God for Black lives
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |Tisha B’Av has become a means to collectively mourn violence against Black people
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Topics: Justice | Human Rights
Martin Gugino is a Catholic activist, not Antifa, friends say
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |The 75-year-old was shoved to the ground by Buffalo, N.Y. police last week
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Topics: Ethical Living | Society
Remembering the man who made 26,000 crosses
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |Greg Zanis saw his work as a ministry
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Topics: Ethical Living | Society
Opposition to Samaritan’s Purse field hospital grows
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |The evangelical Christian group is treating patients suffering from COVID-19 in New York City's Central Park
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Topics: Ethical Living | Society
This teacher is on a mission to discuss death
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |J. Dana Trent wants to reframe discussions of mortality for the post-millennial generation
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Topics: Justice | Activism
Catholic pacifists convicted of breaking into nuclear submarine base
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |They face up to 25 years in prison each
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Topics: Spirituality | Religion
This Yom Kippur, a new poem will honour 11 Pittsburgh Jews
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |Those killed in the Tree of Life synagogue in October 2018 are being recalled as martyrs
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Topics: Spirituality | Culture
Church seeks to make the poor visible with fresco project
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |The artwork will showcase those who dine at The Welcome Table, Haywood Street Church’s principal ministry
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Topics: Justice | Society
Some Jews oppose death penalty in synagogue attack
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |Leaders of both the New Light and Dor Hadash congregations wrote to U.S. Attorney General William Barr to beg him not to pursue capital punishment for Robert Bowers
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Topics: Justice | Activism
Jewish movement says ‘never again’ in protesting ICE
By Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service |Dozens of demonstrations have been led by Jewish activists wanting to shut down ICE’s detention of immigrants