Peace/War

President Trump's declaration that Jerusalem is Israel's capital and his order to move the U.S. Embassy brought quick and sharply differing reactions from Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders.

LUND, Sweden — Almost 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door, setting off more than a century of religious warfare and forever changing the practice of Christianity worldwide, Pope Francis on Monday urged atonement and...

Israel lost its most honored senior statesman, the last active member of its founding generation, with the death today of Shimon Peres, the former ceremonial state president and ex-prime minister. Source: Shimon Peres, Israel’s Liberal Elder Statesman...

KRAKOW, Poland — Pope Francis encouraged hundreds of thousands of young people at a global gathering of the faithful Sunday to “believe in a new humanity” that is stronger than evil and refuses to see borders as barriers. Source: Pope to youth: Believe...

Wappingers Falls, New York (USA) -- Hundreds of Buddhist teachers, monastics, and practitioners from the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America and Asia have come to the village this week to call for world peace. Source: US Northeast | Buddhists from around...

DALLAS — Fearful that the nation is locked in a spiral of violence and discord, many Americans took what refuge they could in church on Sunday. In tiny storefronts and suburban megachurches, worshipers mourned the deaths of five Dallas police officers at...

Michael Pomeranc, a New York hotelier, spent nearly three decades working to uncover the fate of his relatives who died in the Holocaust. Source: Search for Family’s Lost History Leads to Mass Grave in Poland - The New York Times

“Reading the names makes me feel like I could continue their memories, since there are not many people left to even remember them, no place to visit their remains.” More → Source: Holocaust Remembrance: Reading the Names | May 5, 2016 | Religion & Ethics...

“If you were to identify Catholic prophets in the twentieth century,” says Georgetown University professor Chester Gillis, Daniel Berrigan “would be right there with Dorothy Day or Thomas Merton.” His activism, adds Gillis, is “rooted in prayer. It is...

Father Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet, defiantly protested the Vietnam War and served time for his acts of civil disobedience. Source: Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94 - The New York Times