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ROME (RNS) — A Syrian priest held hostage for months by the ISIS terrorist group is certain his life was saved due to his interfaith work, despite being threatened with beheading by jihadists if he did not renounce Christianity. The Rev. Jacques Mourad, a Syriac Catholic priest, was taken hostage in
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has said that Catholics should witness to their faith but not undertake organized efforts to convert Jews, a significant step forward in the once tense relations between the two faiths. The document released on Thursday (Dec. 10) by the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations
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LAKEWOOD, N.J. — It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas here. But Hanukkah? Not so much. In this town of about 90,000 residents, including a large Jewish enclave, a complaint over a menorah set up beside a decorated Christmas tree in Town Square has triggered the
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(RNS) — A Marlboro, N.H., man was told he had to remove the word 'Christmas' from fliers he was sending home with local schoolchildren to remind them and their parents of the town's annual tree lighting ceremony. John F. Fletcher, an American Legion member who also
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(RNS) — From an ice-skating soiree in New York to a comedy night in Los Angeles, here are eight of our favorite fetes to celebrate Hanukkah, which began at sundown Sunday. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Jerusalem temple in 167 B.C.E. and the miracle of the tiny
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(RNS) — A statement by a group of Orthodox rabbis calls Christianity part of a divine plan in which God would have Jews and Christians work together to redeem the world. Although signed so far by 28 rabbis mostly from the more liberal wing of the most traditional branch of Judaism,
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JERUSALEM (RNS) — Women must be allowed to light Hanukkah candles and say a prayer at the official candle-lighting ceremony at the Western Wall when the Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on Sunday (Dec. 6), Israel's deputy attorney general said this week. Every year, eight official lighting ceremonies — one
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Written by Jesse James DeConto DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Andrea Hernandez picks out intricate arpeggios as a member of La Banda Revelation, which performs at Iglesia Hispana Emanuel, a Presbyterian church in the city's Hispanic neighborhood.