(RNS) Religious groups are pushing back against a wave of opposition toward Syrian refugees and working to preserve the U.S. as a..
(RNS) America’s oldest graduate seminary is once again blazing a trail for other mainline Protestant institutions to follow. But this time it’s..
(RNS) Banners posted at predominantly white churches across the country in support of the “Black Lives Matter” movement have been vandalized —..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis raised the specter of a World War III “in pieces,” Muslims issued statements of condemnation, while evangelical..
(RNS) Americans as a whole are growing less religious, but those who still consider themselves to belong to a religion are, on average, just as..
(RNS) They can be found on the battlefield, at a chicken-processing plant and behind the locked gates of a prison. They are chaplains, and as a..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican on Monday (Nov. 2) announced the arrest of two people in connection with the alleged theft of..
WASHINGTON (RNS) After knocking loudly three times on the door of the Washington National Cathedral, Bishop Michael Curry was installed as the..
ST. LOUIS —David Lopez Jackson, 35, was charged Friday (Oct. 30) with setting two in a string of seven church fires this month, but..
(RNS) Episcopal Bishop Michael Curry, the son of an Episcopal priest and grandson of a Baptist preacher, will be installed as presiding bishop of..
ST. LOUIS — Someone set fire to a seventh church in this city Thursday (Oct. 21), the latest in a rash of arson..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The rows of seats in the synod hall, where Catholic bishops are meeting to discuss family issues, are filled..
ST. LOUIS — Police are stepping up patrols and trying to develop a profile of whomever has set six fires outside churches..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has made a surprise visit to a new homeless shelter just outside Vatican City, the pontiff’s latest..
(RNS) For about a month after he returned from England last year, a Montclair State University professor did not realize what a treasure he had found..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis on Wednesday (Oct. 14) asked forgiveness for a series of scandals that have befallen the Vatican and..
WASHINGTON (RNS) Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday (Oct. 14) released his department’s International Religious Freedom Report for 2014, and called terror groups..
(RNS) Four mornings a week, in the tranquil, blushing hours of morning, Diana Butler Bass drives to a familiar walking trail along..
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Ghanaian Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle on Thursday (Oct. 8) defended African bishops’ role in the Vatican’s meeting on family issues, stating..
(RNS) Two of North America’s most liberal Protestant church groups have teamed up and agreed to recognize each other’s members, ministers and sacraments...
(RNS) The most controversial proposal floated so far at the high-level, high-stakes Vatican summit on church teachings on the family had nothing..
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) Most people here came to see Pope Francis. Patty Disney came to see George Spellman. Spellman, who said he is..
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) Pope Francis began the final day of his U.S. visit by meeting privately with five adults abused as children by..
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) It was a meeting of preachers and prisoners, of tattoos and crosses, of caregivers and criminals. Pope Francis visited with..
PHILADELPHIA (RNS) At his start of the final weekend of his nine-day visit to Cuba and the U.S., a weary Pope Francis..
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