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(RNS) World Vision tested evangelical boundaries three months ago when it announced it would allow its employees to be in same-sex marriages. The policy was short-lived;..
(RNS) In a surprising reversal, a Pennsylvania pastor who was defrocked last year for violating United Methodist law after he officiated at..
(RNS) Words and music are the stock-in-trade at most Christian festivals, but the Wild Goose Festival is adding another component: the visual..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis dived into the Middle East peace process on Sunday (June 8), urging the Israeli and Palestinian presidents..
by Josephine McKenna ROME (RNS) As Pope Francis concluded his Middle East tour, officials were hoping to finalize a date for the..
by Lauren Markoe (RNS) A federal court has dismissed three atheist groups’ suit against the IRS, in which they accused the tax agency of..
by Michele Chabin, USA Today BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) Israeli and Palestinian leaders accepted an invitation to the Vatican next month from Pope..
(RNS) Will the United Methodist Church soon have to drop the “United” part of its name? A group of 80 pastors is suggesting that..
by David Gibson NEW YORK (RNS) Social media can bring out the worst in people, and even Pope Francis’ enormously popular Twitter..
by Lauren Markoe WASHINGTON (RNS) One of the nation’s leading — and official — champions of religious freedom implored the Obama..
by Lauren Markoe (RNS) Jewish soldiers and sailors will read from a new prayer book this Memorial Day, one that aims to..
by Sarah Pulliam Bailey (RNS) Two pastors have left on a Reformed evangelical group after a pastor from the Maryland megachurch they founded..
by Cathy Lynn Grossman (RNS) “I know what you did last Sunday,” claims the title of a new survey. You skipped church. And then nearly..
by Fredrick Nzwili (RNS) Sudanese Christians have condemned the sentencing of a Christian woman to death by hanging after she married a..
by Kim Painter, USA Today (RNS) A measles outbreak tied to a group of Amish missionaries in Ohio has reached 68 cases,..
by Lauren Markoe (RNS) The first ever global study of anti-Semitic attitudes shows that more than a quarter of the world’s population (26 percent)..
by Evan Simko-Bednarski and Harry Stevens BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) With the last round of peace talks between the Israeli government and..
by Bobby Ross Jr. COLLEYVILLE, Texas (RNS) The smoke, the loud music and the smell of perfumes trigger uncomfortable memories for Polly..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican issued an urgent appeal Thursday (May 8) for the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped..
by Oren Dorell, USA Today (RNS) Boko Haram is among the most vicious terrorist groups operating in North Africa, home to some..
by Lauren Markoe WASHINGTON (RNS) Who speaks for the American Jewish community? On most any topic, there is no single answer. But..
by Josephine McKenna VATICAN CITY (RNS) The kidnapping of 300 teenage schoolgirls by the Islamist group Boko Haram has shamed Nigeria, Cardinal..
by Richard Wolf, USA Today WASHINGTON (RNS) The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the centuries-old tradition of offering prayers at the start..
by Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Christian clergy fear that a new marriage law signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday (April..
by Cathy Lynn Grossman WASHINGTON (RNS) Believers don’t buy the Big Bang, God-less evolution or a human responsibility for global warming. Actually, neither..
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