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(RNS) — The movie depicts 11-year-old Sarah Rector’s certainty that God told her oil was underneath her land.

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Charisma has been a powerful tool in the American church — for good and, sometimes, evil.

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(RNS) — Mandaeans, who believe they are descendants of the disciples of John the Baptist, have scattered around the globe, fleeing war and persecution in the Middle East.

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(RNS) — Jews have a choice.

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NEW YORK (RNS) — After Mamdani’s election, the Anti-Defamation League announced an initiative to track his administration and the safety of Jewish New Yorkers.

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(RNS) — A law’s vague prescriptions against dissent can be turned against religious minorities the government has deemed enemies.

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NEW YORK (AP) — His most famous, and infamous, work, is “The Satanic Verses,” in which a dream sequence about the Prophet Muhammad led to allegations of blasphemy, rioting and a 1989 fatwa from Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that called for Rushdie's death and drove him into hiding.

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LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The pilgrims arrived in Lahore before traveling to Nankana Sahib, a city in the Punjab province where the shrine of Guru Nanak is located, he said.

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Chicago-born pope was responding Tuesday to a range of geopolitical questions from reporters outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, including what kind of spiritual rights migrants in U.S. custody should have, U.S. military attacks on suspected drug traffickers off Venezuela and the fragile ceasefire in the Middle East.

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