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RNS Morning Report - At 70, Sandi Patty sings ‘The Voice I Have Now,’ plans new album

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At 70, Sandi Patty sings ‘The Voice I Have Now,’ plans new album

(RNS) — ‘It's the perfect song for someone sort of looking back over their career, looking back over life, and realizing God has been faithful all this time,’ Patty said in an interview.

Cardinal Brislin joins African clergy in calling Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Drawing on Africa’s experience of apartheid, genocide and war, Cardinal Stephen Brislin and nine other Catholic clergy say Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute genocide — and argue silence is no longer an option.

Once shaped by court rituals, China’s imperial cuisine lives on today

BEIJING (AP) — Imperial cuisine encompasses the meals emperors ate daily and the feasts their courts held throughout the year.

Opinion

A Muslim educator and a rabbi: One ideology threatens us both

(RNS) — White supremacy does not distinguish between the communities it seeks to intimidate. Our resistance shouldn’t distinguish between them, either.

New book ‘A Nation Wrestles With God’ traces religious dialogue through our history

(RNS) — Wrestling — with the divine, with morality — might well be America’s most sustained pastime.

ICYMI

11 faith groups accuse Trump administration of violating court order while spying on churches

(RNS) — Religious groups now argue that the government has committed ‘multiple egregious violations’ of a preliminary injunction handed down in their case back in February.

Pope Leo: War fuels a ‘vicious cycle’ of environmental destruction

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The pope linked war, environmental destruction and inequality to the same crisis of the human heart, calling for a spiritual and ecological transformation.
 
 
 

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