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(RNS) — Divisions over Israel and the war in Gaza are testing longstanding political loyalties among American Jews, whose votes could prove decisive in closely contested congressional races.

Calvin University is launching a new Center for Faith and Technology to explore how artificial intelligence and emerging technologies can be developed and used responsibly through a Christian perspective.

(RNS) — A North Texas coalition of congregations, clergy and attorneys is helping asylum seekers connect with legal support and challenge detentions. Their efforts have reached more than 1,200 people over the past year, organizers estimate.

Two months after being severely beaten by an angry mob, 17-year-old Ikhlaq Masih told an International Christian Concern (ICC) staffer that about two-thirds of his wounds have healed. The mob attacked the Christian teen after he attempted to help a girl being harassed by a group of men on Sunday, Aug. 16, in Nasrat Colony,… The post Update: Christian Teen Healing from Mob Assault Forgives His Attackers first appeared on International Christian Concern.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Dozens of well-wishers greeted the pope as he walked out of the hospital and into a waiting vehicle to return to the Vatican.

(RNS) — The Christian nationalist movement is relatively new in Britain but has caused concern, including among bishops who have tried to disassociate the established Church of England from it, following large demonstrations and some well-known far-right, anti-migrant activists saying that they have become Christians.