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How Deepak Chopra’s AI spirituality is hijacking spiritual hunger
(RNS) — For 50 cents per 30-minute session, or $10 a month, readers can now ask Digital Deepak about their purpose, their fears, their path forward.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 11:29 PM |
Catholic universities search for tricky balance on Trump anti-DEI push
(RNS) — Many Catholic university leaders are trying to thread the needle between staying under the Trump administration’s radar and framing their work with marginalized students as grounded in their Catholic identities.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:13 PM |
When Catholic colleges cut theology majors, what happens to Catholic identity?
(RNS) — Just 63% of Catholic higher education institutions have theology or religious studies departments, down from 69% in 2016.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 10:07 PM |
African Christian leaders and health nonprofits seek to fill gaps after USAID cuts
(RNS) — The leaders from 10 countries on the continent called for more local funding to restore essential resources to fight malaria, HIV and tuberculosis.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:20 PM |
Pope Leo offers rare insight into his thoughts during the conclave
ISTANBUL, Turkey (RNS) — Pope Leo spoke about the themes of peace and unity that guided his papal visits to Turkey and Lebanon, affirming the Holy See’s commitment to dialogue in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 8:15 PM |
‘Lebanon, stand up!’: Pope Leo revives calls for truth, justice after Beirut port blast
BEIRUT (RNS) — Survivors of the 2020 Beirut port explosion say they are still waiting for the truth as Pope Leo XIV urged Lebanon to become ‘a home of justice and fraternity.’
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:57 PM |
How modern American women are finding Hinduism’s powerful goddess tradition through dance
(RNS) — Bridging the East and West, American women have found Hinduism’s powerful divine feminine through the art of sacred dance.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 5:36 PM |
A long-lost Rubens painting depicting Crucifixion sells for $2.7 million
VERSAILLES, France (AP) — It was part of a French collection and was initially thought to be from one of the many Rubens workshops that existed at the time.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 4:47 PM |
United Lutheran Seminary to host ‘A Vision for Liberating Our Democracy’ Conference, February 27–28
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 3:37 PM |
Pope Leo’s visit to psychiatric hospital aims to combat stigma in Lebanon
JAL EL DIB, Lebanon (RNS) — In a country battered by economic collapse and recurring conflict, Pope Leo XIV visited with patients battling trauma, recovering from addiction and dealing with disabilities at the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross.
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POSTED DECEMBER 02, 2025 7:09 AM |
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Progress brings hope in No More 24—a movement for NYC’s home care workers
New York City home care workers continue the fight to abolish 24-hour shifts and recover more than $6 billion dollars in back wages. The proposed bill entitled No More 24 Act (Intro. 303-2026) remains stalled and has yet to be voted on by the city council—although it would effectively ban this practice.
POSTED NOVEMBER 13, 2026 3:29 PM |
Proposition 40 and the question at the heart of America’s safety net: Who should pay?
A California ballot measure would have levied a one-time tax on billionaires to help fund healthcare and other public services. But the debate surrounding it reaches far beyond the state, touching on wealth, inequality, and responsibility.
POSTED NOVEMBER 12, 2026 9:03 PM |
When opioid-settlement grants turn nonprofits into public contractors
A Tennessee case study shows why reimbursement, monitoring, program performance, and misuse can become four different questions inside the same public grant.
POSTED NOVEMBER 12, 2026 2:44 PM |
Why the good offers seem to go to others
In this installment of Ask Rhea, a BIPOC fundraising coordinator, passed over for opportunities on a disorganized team, asks whether to stay. The answer: Document the pattern, make your work visible, and shop around.
POSTED NOVEMBER 12, 2026 11:18 AM |
LEAF exemplifies how food access and justice programs can effectuate change
LEAF—Leading an Ecological and Accessible Food System—is a four-year-old collaboration between Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture and Columbia Climate School that combines food distribution with opportunities to learn to grow and cook produce and eat healthfully. The collaboration is working towards a community-based approach to research and strengthening the nutrition of Tarrytown, New York.
POSTED NOVEMBER 11, 2026 9:50 PM |
When corporations prioritize digital-first products, where does that leave consumer ownership?
As corporations shift to digital-only, subscription-based media, consumers lose ownership, historical records disappear, and economic barriers grow. Advocates and lawmakers push to restore the right to own what we buy.
POSTED NOVEMBER 11, 2026 10:35 AM |
A century-old Texas church is fighting Trump’s border wall
Friends of the Ruidosa Church is a nonprofit organization fighting to preserve an adobe church built in 1915 a few hundred yards from the Rio Grande in the small town of Ruidosa, Texas. The organization is also a plaintiff in Friends of the Ruidosa Church v. Mullin et al., a suit filed in district court in the Western District of Texas back in April, challenging the federal government’s use of sweeping legal waivers to speed construction of the border wall.
POSTED NOVEMBER 10, 2026 3:01 PM |
The case for co-governance for public education
Co-governance is the future of how we fortify and strengthen our public schools. Leaders from organizations like Race Forward, Schott Foundation and the National Education Alliance sat down to look at co-governance in practice and how it is the key to the future of our democracy.
POSTED NOVEMBER 10, 2026 10:35 AM |
To preserve our democracy, philanthropy must invest in Black women
The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium offer insights on why philanthropy must invest in Black women-led initiatives. Our democracy depends on it.
POSTED NOVEMBER 10, 2026 10:19 AM |
A former prison is becoming a reentry campus
Every year, more than 18,000 people leave North Carolina prisons to return to communities, and many battle to find housing and employment.
POSTED NOVEMBER 09, 2026 8:18 PM |
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