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Thomas Reese
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Senior Analyst at Religion News Service, Jesuit priest, author of "Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church" https://religionnews.com/author/tomreese/ https://bsky.app/profile/rns.org
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My @rns.org column: #PopeLeo to be tested on first trip to #Turkey and #Lebanon religionnews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Pope to be tested on first trip to Turkey and Lebanon
(RNS) — I don’t expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out.
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The surprising #Mormon complexity in '#StrangerThings' religionnews.com/2025/11/25/t...
The surprising Mormon complexity in 'Stranger Things'
(RNS) — The Latter-day Saint character, Suzie, is not all sweetness and light, which is where the screenwriters’ portrayal of Mormon femininity in the 1980s becomes nuanced.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Rian Johnson on miracles, mystery and his own faith story in 'Wake Up Dead Man' religionnews.com/2025/11/25/t...
Rian Johnson on miracles, mystery and his own faith story in 'Wake Up Dead Man'
(RNS) — The third installment of the ‘Knives Out’ series examines the spiritual warfare within American Christianity and looks at writer-director Rian Johnson’s struggle with the essence of faith.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
How one conservative Christian family is pushing back against ICE
A coalition of activists, everyday citizens and people of faith — including theologically conservative Christians — who have pooled resources and learned new technologies to mount an effort they say i...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Pro-Israel synagogue events prompt fiery protests religionnews.com/2025/11/25/p...
Pro-Israel synagogue events prompt fiery protests
LONDON (RNS) — Synagogues holding informational gatherings about immigration to Israel have become a flashpoint in New York and London.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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RNS Photos of the Week: Pre-Advent feast, Nepalese festival religionnews.com/2025/11/25/p...
Photos of the Week: Pre-Advent feast, Nepalese festival
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes a pre-Advent feast and a Nepalese festival remembering departed family members.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Some relief in Nigeria's mass kidnapping, as 50 children escape, but 250 remain missing religionnews.com/2025/11/25/s...
Some relief in Nigeria's mass kidnapping, as 50 children escape, but 250 remain missing
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — No organization has claimed responsibility for the act or demanded ransom for those remaining in captivity. The 315 people were kidnapped from a Catholic school last week.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Vatican rejects polygamy and polyamory in sweeping doctrinal praise of monogamy
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican’s new doctrinal note sharply rejects polygamy and growing Western polyamory, praising monogamy as an exclusive union between one man and one woman.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Australian judge rules synagogue arsonist was motivated by mental illness, not antisemitism
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Reports of antisemitic and Islamophobic incidents have risen sharply across Australia since the war between Israel and Hamas began in 2023.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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What Mamdani missed about the Manhattan synagogue protest
(RNS) — When Jew-haters take to the streets, they remind us of why Israel was necessary in the first place.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Optimism ahead of pope's visit to Turkey for reopening of Istanbul's Greek Orthodox seminary
HEYBELIADA, Turkey (AP) — The Halki Theological School has become a symbol of Orthodox heritage and a focal point in the push for religious freedoms in Turkey.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Survivors of Hindu-Muslim riots find healing in women's empowerment
(RNS) — 'It’s the women who suffer most in the aftermath of riots,' said the center's founder. 'I wanted a place where women could express themselves freely and rebuild their identities.'
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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Study: Latino Christians disapprove of Trump, hit hard by mass deportation campaign
(RNS) — Those opinions are being shaped as a majority of Latino Christians are witnessing the impacts of Trump’s mass deportation campaign in their own neighborhoods.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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My @rns.org column: #PopeLeo to be tested on first trip to #Turkey and #Lebanon religionnews.com/2025/11/24/p...
Pope to be tested on first trip to Turkey and Lebanon
(RNS) — I don’t expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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From vaccines to gender: How Christian 'momfluencers' are reshaping the American right
(RNS) — 'Nothing is politically more powerful than an angry mother,' conservative wellness influencer Alex Clark told RNS.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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As US debates gender roles, some women in male-led faiths dig in on social and political issues
(AP) — Outspoken women from the Catholic Church and the ranks of conservative evangelicals are engaging with gusto in ongoing political and social debates even as their faiths maintain longstanding ru...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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How the UK's ancient stones are drawing renewed awareness of the sacred
PENZANCE, England (RNS) — The United Kingdom is studded with megalithic formations dating back to the Neolithic and Bronze ages. Many are finding in them a portal to the sacred.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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'Turkey' means 'thanksgiving' in Hebrew. That's just the start of Jewish links to the holiday.
(RNS) — Ancient Jews held large communal meals, inviting friends, relatives and perhaps even strangers to fulfill the thank offering.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A Seventh-day Adventist HBCU wants to sign Trump’s compact to reform colleges
(RNS) — The president of Oakwood University, a faith-based HBCU, said the school wants to sign on to the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education — if the DOE makes s...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 24 killed
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel has previously carried out similar waves of strikes after reported attacks on its forces during the ceasefire.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Pope Leo XIV accepts resignation of Spanish bishop accused of abuse in first known case for pontiff
ROME (AP) — A one-line statement from the Vatican said Leo had accepted the resignation of Cádiz Bishop Rafael Zornoza, 76.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Why schoolchildren are often abducted in Nigeria and who the usual kidnappers are
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — School kidnappings have come to define insecurity in Africa’s most populous nation, and analysts say it's often because armed gangs see schools as “strategic” targets to draw mor...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Christian pastor's daughter urges US lawmakers to help free her father in China
WASHINGTON (AP) — Appearing before a congressional panel Thursday, Grace Jin Drexel said her father, Ezra Jin Mingri, was formally charged this week along with 17 other leaders of the prominent underg...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Why did so many influential Jews dine with bin Salman at the White House?
(RNS) — Have we become so enamored with access — to influence, wealth, power — that we neglected the very old Jewish instinct that is the courage to say no?
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November 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Palestinian Christians issue 'Kairos II,' a cry of hope in a time of darkness
(RNS) — Updating a document issued in 2009, Kairos Palestine II demands international protection, accountability and reparations.
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November 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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ICE to deport Dallas Muslim community leader Marwan Marouf
(RNS) — Marouf was arrested by ICE agents after his green card was denied over donations more than 20 years ago to the Holy Land Foundation, a defunct Muslim charity whose leaders were convicted of ha...
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November 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM