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What we are experiencing is not new. It goes back to Peter Stuyvesant.

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(RNS) — Disaster relief groups have moved supplies into place, mobilized volunteers and started raising funds to respond to Hurricane Melissa, which has killed more than 20 people and flooded out thousands in the Caribbean.

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(RNS) — ‘The detention conditions are horrid, and they’re almost jubilant about those conditions,’ said the vice president for advocacy at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA, which provides chaplains to immigrants in detention.

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(RNS) — The nonprofit Shefa integrates Jewish beliefs and rituals with legal psychedelic practices, an approach that’s especially resonated in recent years.

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(RNS) — No Bibles in public school classrooms for now.

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(RNS) — Admitting error is not usually in the president’s toolbox. But doing so here would be the right thing.

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(RNS) — Johnson initially claimed he was not aware of the instances, despite having been directly asked about one of the incidents in a press conference earlier this month.

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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The flare-up of violence presented one of the biggest tests so far for the truce and had international mediators scrambling to prevent it from collapsing.

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ROME (AP) — Leo issued a set of marching orders to Catholic educators during a special Holy Year celebration that has brought thousands of teachers, students and administrators to Rome.

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(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes peace meetings, the Religion News Service symposium and more.

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