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Swiss Guards: World’s oldest standing army gets new headgear

VATICAN CITY – The world’s oldest standing army is getting some new headgear. The Swiss Guards plan to replace their metal helmets with plastic PVC ones made with a 3-D printer, g...

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

How does Congress have chaplains without violating the separation of church and state?

We are scholars of religion and American politics who, with Brandeis Ph.D. candidate Margaret Clendenen Minkin, have written about the history and work of congressional chaplains. ...

DATE: May 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

House chaplain wins job back after scalding letter to Ryan

WASHINGTON – The embattled chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives has won his job back just hours after sending a scalding letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that accused a top Ryan st...

DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Pope to Chile abuse victims: ‘I was part of the problem’

ROME – The three whistleblowers in Chile’s sex abuse scandal urged Pope Francis on Wednesday to transform his apology for having discredited them into concrete action to end what they called...

DATE: May 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Cortez high school student reflects on U.N. meeting about status of women

Annika Lewis calls for more diversity in school, church

DATE: May 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News

Vatican to discuss if non-Catholics can take Holy Communion

VATICAN CITY – Officials from the Vatican’s doctrinal watchdog and leading German churchmen will meet this week to discuss if non-Catholic spouses can receive Holy Communion, the Holy See sa...

DATE: May 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Nevada spiritual leader to give first Hindu prayer in Oklahoma Senate

OKLAHOMA CITY – A spiritual leader from Nevada will deliver the Oklahoma Senate’s first Hindu prayer, part of an interfaith movement in a Legislature in the Bible Belt that has faced critici...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

National Day of Prayer belongs to all Americans

‘Unity’ is theme for the event, and among churches in Durango

DATE: Apr 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Chile church sex abuse whistleblower from pariah to VIP

VATICAN CITY – The key whistleblower in Chile’s clerical sex abuse scandal has arrived in Rome for his audience with Pope Francis and said Tuesday he will urge the pope to get rid of the “to...

DATE: Apr 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Friends separated by the Holocaust reunite in California

LOS ANGELES – When Alice Gerstel bid an emotional farewell to her family’s closest friends in October 1941, she was hopeful she’d see “Little Simon” Gronowski again. And she did – 76 years l...

DATE: Apr 23, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

As numbers dwindle, Jews who fought Nazis recall struggle

KFAR SABA, Israel – While most of his fellow Jews were being killed or brutalized in Nazi death camps and ghettos, Baruch Shub and his friends were hiding in the forests of the former Soviet...

DATE: Apr 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Two-thirds of millennials don’t know what Auschwitz is, Holocaust study says

Two-thirds of American millennials cannot identify what Auschwitz is, according to a study released on Holocaust Memorial Day that found that knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 million ...

DATE: Apr 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion