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When Jewish rights were human rights
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 6, 2024
(RNS) — A chance encounter with the son of one of the great Jewish moral heroes of the last half century. Few people think of him now, and therein lies the story.
Japan PM purges Cabinet after support falls over church ties
By Mari Yamaguchi — August 10, 2022
TOKYO (AP) — Seven ministers who acknowledged their ties to the church were removed.
Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning Bibles in China
By Paul O'Donnell — September 10, 2018
(RNS) — The campaign corresponds with a drive to 'Sinicize' religion by demanding loyalty to the officially atheist Communist Party and eliminating any challenge to its power over people's lives.
Why Putin is an ally for American evangelicals
By Melani McAlister — September 4, 2018
(The Conversation) — In the 21st century, evangelical conservatives aren’t promoting their agenda by smuggling Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, but by harnessing Putin’s reputation as a leader in the resurgent global Right.
Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul
By Yanan Wang — August 8, 2018
NANYANG, China (AP) — Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival.
Why Communism sucked
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 10, 2017
Next time someone tells you how violent religion is, tell them this.....
‘Underground’ Catholics complicate pope’s hope of better relations with China
By Reuters — December 24, 2016
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) Some Chinese Catholics are not ready to accept reconciliation with a government that has persecuted them for years.
No kaddish for Castro
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 28, 2016
(RNS) Castro's revolution was a moral and spiritual failure. That is why I am not mourning his death.
Vatican and China in final push for elusive deal on bishops
By Jerome Socolovsky — October 21, 2016
ROME/HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Representatives from the Vatican and China are expected to meet before the end of the month to finalize a deal on the ordination of bishops on the mainland.
Two Cuban dissidents say they were detained on way to see pope
By Reuters — September 21, 2015
HAVANA (Reuters) – Overall, an estimated 50 dissidents have been detained and prevented from attending papal events, said a Cuban human rights group.
Pope Francis praises social reforms in Bolivia (and sips coca leaf and chamomile tea)
By Reuters — July 9, 2015
Leftist Bolivian president Evo Morales presented the pope with a wooden crucifix -- carved on a hammer and sickle. Francis spoke of how material wealth must not foster selfishness.
Liberation theology’s founder basks in a belated rehabilitation under Pope Francis
By David Gibson — May 7, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) The Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez is in a sense the Yoda of Catholicism: a small but sage presence who has known vituperation and exile, and who is now able to see his life’s work vindicated.
The legacies of John Paul II and John XXIII
By Amanda Murphy — April 22, 2014
(RNS) Religion News Service asked experts, biographers and theologians to assess the two popes who will be canonized on Sunday.
Newest ‘Values Voters’ adversary to America: The Emergent Church.
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — August 27, 2013
(RNS) “If we had one one-thousandth of the adherence of either of communism or Islam, we’d be doing pretty well," said Emergent Church leader Tony Jones. "When I first saw this, I thought it was a headline from The Onion.”
Vatican newspaper compares marriage equality to communism
By Alessandro Speciale — December 20, 2012
(RNS) Faced with recent setbacks in the United States and in Europe, the Catholic Church has intensified its increasingly uphill battle against gay marriage, and embraced a theory that compares marriage equality to communism. By Alessandro Speciale.
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