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Time to remember more than one atrocity? A defense of Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Avi Shafran — February 1, 2023
(RNS) — There’s a reason we take a special day to remember the Holocaust.

Pope links plight of Ukrainians today to Stalin’s ‘genocide’

By Nicole Winfield — November 24, 2022
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The pontiff's willingness to call the starvation of Ukrainians 90 years ago a “genocide,” and his linking it to Ukrainian deaths today, marked a sharp escalation in papal rhetoric against Russia

Holy wars: How a cathedral of guns and glory symbolizes Putin’s Russia

By Lena Surzhko Harned — March 7, 2022
(The Conversation) — To understand Russia’s war in Ukraine, look to the blend of religious and militaristic nationalism under Putin – on full display in the Church of the Russian Armed Forces.

How will history judge Vladimir Putin?

By Jeffrey Salkin — February 24, 2022
(RNS) — In his hunger for Ukraine, Putin walks in the path of Hitler.

Why Communism sucked

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 10, 2017
Next time someone tells you how violent religion is, tell them this.....

COMMENTARY: An abyss of historical ignorance

By Jeffrey Weiss — January 31, 2014
(RNS) Cavalier Nazi comparisons disrespect the actual victims of the Nazis by suggesting that any perceived wrong is like the Holocaust. It's not.

How the “Islamic Antichrist” reflects our era’s anxieties

By Daniel Burke — February 6, 2013
Every age needs an Antichrist. For Protestant reformers, it was the papacy. For Cold War Christians, it was the Soviets. Now, a growing group of evangelicals say the Antichrist will be Muslim.
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