Religion News Service

COMMENTARY: Naming rites link parents to God’s creative work

(RNS) Naming rites and rituals are seldom in the news — except, of course, when the person in question will be the..

Malaysian Muslims ask Vatican to recall envoy over use of “Allah”

BANGKOK, Thailand (RNS) The Vatican’s first envoy to Muslim-majority Malaysia should quit and go back to Rome, angry Malaysian Islamists said after..

What one businessman learned about success from Trappist monks

(RNS) Driving through the Spanish moss-draped gates of the Mepkin Abbey Trappist monastery in Moncks Corner, S.C., businessman August Turak felt as if he..

Christians in Sudan face increased hostility

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Despite a promise by the Sudanese government to grant its minority Christian population religious freedom, church leaders there said..

How Christians should respond to the Zimmerman verdict: An interview with Leroy Barber

Reactions to the George Zimmerman “not guilty” verdict from American Christians have been as diverse as the community itself. Some Christian pastors used their pulpits on..

Baseball’s Darryl Strawberry buries his past in new career as a pastor

Conservatives say religious freedom is ‘under attack’ in military

Church of England to draft new legislation on women bishops

Joel Hunter pays a price for political activism

Is the growth of the nonreligious good or bad? Americans are divided

African religious leaders reject Obama’s call to decriminalize homosexuality

Pope Francis proclaims John Paul II, John XXIII as new saints

When firefighters fall, chaplains stand

San Diego judge says public school’s yoga instruction not religious

My country ’tis of thee: Evangelicals score highest on patriotism

WASHINGTON (RNS) When it comes to God and country, white evangelicals report the most intense patriotic feelings in a new poll, with..

After high court rulings, what will religious conservatives do?

ANALYSIS: A cultural wave on gay marriage reaches the Supreme Court

Christian Leaders Respond to DOMA Decision

Commentary: The real threat to marriage

Sicily bishop forbids church funerals for mobsters

Pope Francis: Christianity is incompatible with anti-Semitism

Is yoga instruction religious? San Diego court case may decide

NAACP’s William Barber emerges as leader of Moral Monday protests

Princeton Seminary and yeshiva shouldn’t get state funds, suit says

Kenya’s Christians and Muslims unite to combat addiction