‘We are honest about the conditions that we're facing, but we are not hopeless about what we're facing,' said Bishop W. Darin Moore of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.
'Afrikaners don’t fit any definition of refugee,' said the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church.
Built to train pastors, many seminaries like Princeton and Austin are increasingly welcoming students looking to discern their calling rather than intending to work at a congregation.
‘The election of an American Pope, the first American Pope … there’s a signal here that the church is taking a side in what’s happening around the globe,' said Steven Millies, a professor at Catholic Theological Union.
As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world. — Steven P. Millies
Cardinal Robert Prevost's tweets and posts might offer clues into the mind of Pope Leo XIV.
Who is Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, and what might we expect from his papacy?
In a shocking vote that caught the Catholic world by surprise, Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the 267th pope, and the first United States citizen to become the Bishop of Rome.
President Donald Trump has appointed evangelical allies and a pair of high-profile Catholic clergy to join other faith leaders on a National Commission on Religious Liberty.
While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Rotunda — including credentialed press.
A slate of conservative, transitional and progressive candidates to replace Francis.
Francis leaves behind him a church still divided, but radically transformed.
In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased.
Presbyterian churches, including St. Andrew's in Austin and Lake View in Chicago, are stepping up efforts to provide support to vulnerable migrants amid heightened immigration enforcement.
Graham defended the Trump administration's review of USAID funding as an important step in reining in federal waste and fraud.
Since he was inaugurated in January, President Donald Trump has faced virtually constant pushback from faith groups, including in the courts.
‘The U.S. is a spiritual place, a religious place, where we’ve seen signs of religious stabilization in the midst of longer-term decline,’ said Gregory Smith, a senior associate director of research at Pew Research Center.
The statement is signed by 11 Christian LGBTQ groups, including More Light Presbyterians, representing tens of thousands of constituents and roughly 5,000 congregations.
The Rev. Jamal Bryant said he hopes 100,000 ‘conscientious Christians’ will have signed up by March 5 to mark the ‘season of denial’ by fasting from shopping at Target.
‘The courts are still working in this country,’ said Mark Hetfield, head of HIAS, a Jewish organization that works with refugees. ‘Thank God.’
More than 300 faith communities have lost access to grant funds that were intended to plant trees in disadvantaged urban communities, environmental faith leaders who managed the grants told RNS.
The PC(USA) has joined more than two dozen faith groups to challenge an effective freeze on the federal refugee resettlement program and defend a rule preventing immigration law enforcement agencies from raiding houses of worship and other sensitive locations.
Airport chaplain Nace Lanier, among the first to respond to the midair collision near Washington's airport, joined a team 'to holistically care for the hurting and confused.'
Moving forward, experts say, private donations and volunteers from local faith groups will be more crucial than ever.
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