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Emerald miner Janeth Paez stands inside the tunnel of an informal mine near the town of Coscuez, Colombia, on Feb. 28, 2024.

Venezuelan migrants keep arriving in Colombia. These faith leaders offer them a home away from home

Emerald miner Janeth Paez stands inside the tunnel of an informal mine near the town of Coscuez, Colombia, on Feb. 28, 2024.

December 8, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion

It’s been three years since Douarleyka Velásquez abandoned her career in human resources. Her new job is not what she had planned for, but still feels rewarding. As a cleaning supervisor at a migrant shelter in Colombia, she gets to comfort Venezuelans who, just like herself, fled their homes hoping… Read story

Pro-Israel sign vandalized for second time at Plymouth Congregational Church

December 3, 2024, 7:51am Churches & Religion

A Spokane church was vandalized during the Thanksgiving weekend due to its support for Israel. Read story

Border Patrol specialist Mitchell Holmes, right, and Fish and Wildlife Regional Law Enforcement agent Kevin Shinn, use skills they learned in the Border Patrol Chaplaincy academy during a training session, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla.

Border Patrol trains more chaplains as the job and polarizing immigration debate rattle agents

Border Patrol specialist Mitchell Holmes, right, and Fish and Wildlife Regional Law Enforcement agent Kevin Shinn, use skills they learned in the Border Patrol Chaplaincy academy during a training session, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024, in Dania Beach, Fla.

December 1, 2024, 6:05am Churches & Religion

As immigration remains a hotly contested priority for the Trump administration after playing a decisive role in the deeply polarized election, the Border Patrol agents tasked with enforcing many of its laws are wrestling with growing challenges on and off the job. Read story

A paper cutout of The Last Supper, the last supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, from the Gospel of John, is seen atop the piano in the Young’s Sunbury, Ohio, home on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.

A Catholic family’s answer to opposing abortion: adopt, foster and vote

A paper cutout of The Last Supper, the last supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, from the Gospel of John, is seen atop the piano in the Young’s Sunbury, Ohio, home on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2024.

November 30, 2024, 1:15pm Churches & Religion

For the Young family in rural Sunbury, Ohio, activism begins at home. Read story

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff signs autographs for young fans Nov. 13 after NCAA college football practice in Provo, Utah.

Quarterback brings touchdowns, Jewish teachings to predominately Mormon university

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff signs autographs for young fans Nov. 13 after NCAA college football practice in Provo, Utah.

November 30, 2024, 6:04am Churches & Religion

Shortly after sunset on a Saturday, Rabbi Chaim Zippel clasped an overflowing cup of wine and a tin of smelling spices as he marked the end of the Sabbath with a small Jewish congregation at his home near Provo, which doubles as the county’s only synagogue. Read story

Sadith Silvano, from Paoyhan, a Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community in the Amazon, paints a tablecloth at her home and workshop in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Handpainted textiles like the ones she crafts, known as “kené,” have slowly gained recognition and were declared part of the “Cultural Heritage of the Nation” by the Peruvian government in 2008.

Amazon inspires women’s crafts

Sadith Silvano, from Paoyhan, a Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community in the Amazon, paints a tablecloth at her home and workshop in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Handpainted textiles like the ones she crafts, known as “kené,” have slowly gained recognition and were declared part of the “Cultural Heritage of the Nation” by the Peruvian government in 2008.

November 30, 2024, 6:01am Churches & Religion

Sadith Silvano’s crafts are born from ancient songs. Brush in hand, eyes on the cloth, the Peruvian woman paints as she sings. And through her voice, her ancestors speak. Read story

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the renovated interiors of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral Nov. 29, 2024, in Paris.

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the renovated interiors of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral Nov. 29, 2024, in Paris.

November 29, 2024, 8:03am Churches & Religion

After more than five years of frenetic, but sometimes interrupted, reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed itself anew to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. Read story

An experimental art installation with an AI Jesus entitled, Deus in Machina, installed in a confessional in St. Peter's Chapel in the old town of Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024.

‘AI Jesus’ avatar tests man’s faith in machines and the divine

An experimental art installation with an AI Jesus entitled, Deus in Machina, installed in a confessional in St. Peter's Chapel in the old town of Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024.

November 28, 2024, 11:23am Business

Would you trust an “AI Jesus” with your innermost thoughts and troubles? Read story

Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac displays his book with drawings Nov. 20 of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

Fashion designer says Notre Dame work ‘a calling’

Designer Jean-Charles de Castelbajac displays his book with drawings Nov. 20 of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

November 28, 2024, 5:01am Churches & Religion

When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac watched as Notre Dame cathedral burned in April 2019, he felt compelled to act somehow. Read story

U.S.-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, is presented with “khata,” the Tibetan ceremonial scarves that symbolize auspiciousness, at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony, in Isanti, Minn., on Nov. 9.

High school footballer soon to be Buddhist lama in Himalayas

U.S.-born Buddhist lama, Jalue Dorje, is presented with “khata,” the Tibetan ceremonial scarves that symbolize auspiciousness, at his 18th birthday and enthronement ceremony, in Isanti, Minn., on Nov. 9.

November 28, 2024, 5:01am Churches & Religion

The young Buddhist lama sat on a throne near an altar decorated with flowers, fruits and golden statues of the Buddha, watching the celebrations of his 18th birthday in silence, with a faint smile. Read story