by News Feed Editor | Mar 1, 2026 | Religion
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 1, 2026 | Religion
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Early Saturday morning (Feb. 27), as Israeli and American fighter jets began striking targets in Iran, every Israeli cell phone issued an air-raid siren alarm, the signal to go immediately to the nearest bomb shelter. Soon afterward, the country’s...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 28, 2026 | Religion
(The Conversation) — Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad Khamenei, and he grew up in relative poverty. He learned to read the Qur’an in early childhood before attending a theological seminary school in...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 28, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – “The Last Judgment,” Michelangelo’s vast fresco painted into the plaster of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is undergoing an extraordinary maintenance process in preparation for Easter, with a team of 20 restorers working in two shifts a day remove a...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 27, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — On the first night of Ramadan, worshippers stood shoulder to shoulder on rows of blue prayer rugs beneath the glow of string lights in a former elementary school gym in Lubbock, Texas. Just weeks earlier, the building had been abandoned and in disrepair. ...
by News Feed Editor | Feb 27, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — If the blurb on the back of a history book dared admit it had begun life as an academic paper, you wouldn’t be blamed if you replaced it on the shelf and kept perusing. But the Rev. Boise Kimber’s new book about Black women in ministry, born as a Yale Divinity...
