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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

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Faith leaders at the UN climate conference COP29 in Baku Azerbaijan on November 12, 2024. From left: Rabbi Yonatan Neril, director of the Jerusalem-based Interfaith Center for Sustainable Development; Reverend Melanie Mullen, Director of Reconciliation, Justice and Creation Care at the US Episcopal Church' Metropolitan Serafim Kykotis, Lisa Graumlich; and Rebecca Paulsen Edwards, an atmospheric scientist training to be a Methodist deacon. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 13, 2024, 5:27 am
Scientist turned deacon urges faith leaders to implore followers to act on climate
At annual UN climate confab, speakers at event organized by Jerusalem-based interfaith group say scientific proof of crisis is necessary, but it’s not motivating humanity to change
By Sue Surkes
A woman argues with Rosh Yehudi activists at a mass street prayer for Yom Kippur on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
October 9, 2024, 5:00 am
High Court to rule on public Tel Aviv Yom Kippur prayer amid fears of repeat clashes
On Wednesday morning, judges are set to weigh in on a controversial service that underscores deep rifts in Israeli society and saw violent confrontations when it was held last year
By Mati Wagner
Beatie Deutsch, an Orthodox Jewish runner, fourth from right, competes in a 1500-meter run in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
July 2, 2024, 6:21 pm
Facing hurdles, devout athletes want sports bodies to do more to accommodate religion
Orthodox Jewish Israeli runner Beatie Deutsch cites missing Tokyo 2020 since race fell on Shabbat rest day, as competitors of multiple religions balance faith with sport
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO and DEEPA BHARATH
Aaron Abramson has taken over as CEO of Jews for Jesus, the third leader of the group and the first with an Israeli background, replacing David Brickner who led Jews for Jesus since 1996. (Courtesy of Jews for Jesus)
June 15, 2024, 1:53 am
With a new leader and revamped strategy, it’s a second coming for Jews for Jesus
This month, Aaron Abramson becomes the third to hold the title – and the first Israeli – since the controversial organization was founded in San Francisco some five decades ago
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Baha'i worshippers in the Bahji Gardens in Acre. (Courtesy Baha'i World Center)
February 18, 2024, 1:14 pm
Decision expected in legal battle over ‘holy’ classification of Baha’i gardens in Acre
Bahji Gardens are closed to the public as Baha’i leadership battles city’s decision to lift tax exemption and charge community NIS 7 million a year for faith founder’s burial spot
By Nurit Malkin
Pastor Ryan Burge, an associate professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University and author of, "The Nones," a book on the growing number of religiously unaffiliated Americans, preaches a sermon at First Baptist Church in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, September 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
October 7, 2023, 4:47 am
Meet the ‘nones,’ non-observant Americans who really don’t like organized religion
The growing, diverse phenomenon spans atheists, agnostics and others with varying levels of spirituality and religiosity, all disenfranchised with the churches they grew up in
By Peter Smith
'Judaism in a Digital Age,' by Rabbi Danny Schiff. (Book cover courtesy of Palgrave Macmillan/ Portrait courtesy of Joshua Franzos)
February 14, 2023, 2:25 am
As non-Orthodox Judaism wanes, a rabbi sees an updated mission in the digital age
In his new book, Danny Schiff urges a return to the religion’s roots, shifting focus from synagogue attendance to being a moral beacon in an age of wild technological advancement
By Toby Tabachnik
Archbishop of York Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell, left, and The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby walk in central London, Sept. 14, 2022 ahead of the ceremonial procession of the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, London. (Justin Tallis/Pool Photo via AP)
November 29, 2022, 4:27 pm
UK census: Under 50% of population identify as Christian; Buddhists overtake Jews
Those identifying as Muslim and those with no religion increase since 2011 census; archbishop of York says it is ‘no great surprise’ the Christian proportion is declining over time
By AFP
A member of the Assemblies of God Ministry of Restoration church reacts to the words of Pentecostal preacher Dione dos Santos in the Coreia shantytown, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 28, 2014. Evangelical Christianity is the fastest growing religious segment in Brazil and its population is exploding. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
October 15, 2022, 1:25 pm
Are the End Times near? How Pentecostal Christianity is taking over the world
In her new book ‘Beyond Belief,’ journalist Elle Hardy writes about her encounters around the globe with the fast-growing religion, and theorizes about what makes it so popular
By Rich Tenorio
Rabbi David Wolpe speaks to congregants at Sinai Temple on September 23, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
September 29, 2022, 6:25 am
US rabbis and reverends strive to reconcile politically divided congregations
Despite some leaving over his refusal to condemn Trump from pulpit, others bolting due to COVID policies, David Wolpe and others still committed to leaving politics out of sermons
By David Crary
Anti-abortion activists Maggie Donica, 21, left, and Grace Rykaczewski, 21, kneel and pray in front of abortion-rights activists following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, federally protected right to abortion, in Washington, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
June 24, 2022, 9:23 pm
From ‘historic day’ to ‘deeply grieved,’ US faithful split by abortion ruling
Catholics, Baptists and other conservative clergy hail decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and vow to continue fight, as progressive groups decry health dangers and loss of rights
By AP
Visiting Indian artist Vibha Galhotra, at the entrance of the wooden meditation temple at Jerusalem's Muslala, with the stone altar in back of her, at its center, created as part of her 10-week residency in the Jerusalem International Fellows, through May 2022 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
May 28, 2022, 8:03 am
Visiting Indian artist creates stone altar that sings of Jerusalem’s religions
Vibha Galhotra brings her vision of spirituality and nature to a downtown rooftop, with a focus on climate change
By Jessica Steinberg
A demonstrator holding a cross protests outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington DC, May 5, 2022. (AP/Jose Luis Magana, File)
May 9, 2022, 8:38 am
Potential overturn of Roe v. Wade divides America’s faithful on abortion
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg argues draft ruling would outlaw procedure in cases where Judaism permits, and even requires it; national polls show most Americans support abortion access
By DEEPA BHARATH and LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Illustrative: Teenage girls from the Atlanta Jewish community. (Courtesy of JumpSpark)
May 9, 2022, 3:48 am
Yentl’s revenge: Young American-Jewish women outperform all others academically
Tulane University professor Ilana Horwitz’s research points to religious culture as reason for why Jewish girls surpass educational attainment of non-Jewish girls – and Jewish boys
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rev. Meredith Mills delivers a sermon from the pulpit for some 30 attendants during the second service of the day in the sanctuary at Westminster United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, Dec. 12, 2021. (Michael Wyke/AP)
December 20, 2021, 9:27 am
Sapped by COVID, Jewish and Christian houses of worship strain to rebuild attendance
After coronavirus pandemic restrictions forced a pause in services on-site, some went online, but as rules ease many community members are still staying at home
By AP and ToI Staff
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