WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. State Department warned that religion-based terrorists as well as some governments across the globe are threatening the liberties of..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis had lunch with 21 Syrian refugees at his private residence at the Vatican on Thursday (Aug. 11),..
(RNS) Most American churchgoers are hearing politics from the pulpits of their churches during this presidential election season, according to a new..
(RNS) The Rev. Cynthia Meyer has been placed on an involuntary leave of absence after coming out as a lesbian earlier this year..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Following through on a pledge he made to a group of nuns last May, Pope Francis has established a..
(RNS) France was convulsed by another horrific attack as armed men burst into a Catholic Church near Rouen and slit the throat..
(RNS) Bishop Karen Oliveto felt called to ministry in the United Methodist Church when she was 11 years old. But for years..
(RNS) Officer Sean Pease gave the opening and closing prayers at a vigil Monday (July 11) for Dallas police officers who were..
(RNS) In the wake of a string of racially tinged shootings, majority white churches -- even those quiet in past years about..
(RNS) Several U.S.-based religious denominations remain defiant in the face of new laws that would ban them from proselytizing in Russia. The..
TEL ZAFIT, Israel (RNS) The Gath archaeological site in southern Israel is littered with 2,800-year-old pottery shards poking out of the ground..
(RNS) Dallas clergy, reeling from the shootings of police in their city and the recent shootings of black men by police elsewhere,..
(RNS) The nation’s second largest Presbyterian denomination has passed legislation repenting for “past failures to love brothers and sisters from minority cultures”..
(RNS) The call went out for 600 volunteers to make care packages for Syrian refugees. Nearly 1,000 Muslims, Sikhs, Jews, Buddhists, Christians and..
(RNS) At its quadrennial meeting last month, the United Methodist Church decided not to take up contentious LGBT issues. But that’s not stopping..
PRISTINA, Kosovo (RNS) Three years ago, Joshua Stanton was walking around Peja, a Balkan city where the skyline is punctured with the..
(RNS) The last surviving Catholic priest imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp has died at the age of 102, more than 70..
(RNS) The Southern Baptist Convention, born in 1845 in a split over its support for slavery, passed a resolution calling for Christians..
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) An Anglican priest has joined two gay men and two lesbians in a suit against the state over discriminatory..
(RNS) Christians responded quickly to the shooting rampage at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association immediately sent..
(RNS) One year after the Supreme Court ruled that gays can legally marry across the country, and at a time when most polls..
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Washington National Cathedral will replace depictions of the Confederate flag in its stained-glass windows with plain glass but maintain adjoining panes..
CHARLESTON, S.C. (RNS) A few weeks after a young white gunman killed nine people at a Bible study in a black church..
(RNS) A married lesbian who had hoped to become a deacon in the United Methodist Church was voted down by clergy of..
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) - Like other graduates of Wake Forest University’s School of Divinity, Adam Plant walked onstage earlier this month to..
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