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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Pope Benedict XVI agreed Thursday (Dec. 3) to establish full diplomatic relations between Russia and the Holy See, a step likely to be seen as healing decades of mutual suspicion and tension. “During the meetings both parties expressed their satisfaction at the cordial existing relations and it…

(RNS) Eboo Patel, founder and executive director of the community service group Interfaith Youth Core, has become the first Muslim to win the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion from the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville. Patel, 34, is a member of the White House’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships…

(RNS) An audio version of the modern edition of the Jewish Bible is being made available for free to the blind. The Jewish Publication Society spent more than a year recording 60 hours of the JPS Tanakh, in a project coordinated with JBI International, formerly the Jewish Braille Institute. Organizers recruited several Jewish celebrities to…

HARTFORD, Conn. – Recently retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan expressed skepticism over sexual abuse allegations against priests when he was a Connecticut bishop a decade ago, saying he found it “marvelous” that so few priests had been accused over the years, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday. The files, including two depositions of Egan,…
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