Alejandra Molina

(RNS) — ‘No one should have to choose between serving God and country,’ said Eric Baxter, an attorney with a religious liberty legal group that is representing the Sikh recruits.

(RNS) — Christian leaders are serving witness against the ‘unholy’ and ‘political’ ideology of Christian nationalism that they say ‘helped inspire the deadly attack on the Capitol.’

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — A vigil on Saturday for Keenan Anderson was not a protest but a ‘spiritual gathering,’ said Melina Abdullah, co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of Black Lives Matter.

(RNS) — Congress approved the transfer of the land to Resolution Copper in 2014 in exchange for 6,000 acres elsewhere, but the Western Apache claim that the site has unique spiritual meaning.

MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (RNS) — ‘If we take hatred for hatred, we will never have peace of mind,’ said the Venerable Chang Ju. ‘We need the wisdom to overcome all this.’

(RNS) — ‘There is a gap between the lived experiences of Sikh kids and what teachers, administrators and policymakers understand,’ said Rucha Kaur, community development director for the Sikh Coalition.

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — ‘Whenever you see a virgencita you feel safe. You know that your people, your gente, your raza are around,’ said Oscar Rodriguez Zapata.

HACIENDA HEIGHTS, Calif. (RNS) — Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell was committed to ‘the ordinary person, not the rich Catholic,’ said Linda Dakin-Grimm, an immigration attorney who worked with the bishop. His death is being investigated as a homicide.

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — ‘He was friends up and down the social scale, at ease in the corridors of power and with the powerless,’ said Monsignor Jarlath Cunnane during his homily.

(RNS) — It is perplexing, some say, when interfaith leaders refer to the religious freedom movement as ‘radically inclusive’ while ‘one of the biggest sections of society’ is left out of the conversation.