Photos of the Week: Georgian patriarch, Shiite pilgrims

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Religion

(RNS) — This week’s photo selection includes a new Georgian Orthodox patriarch, Shiite pilgrims and more. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

She was shunned for renouncing Zionism. A decade later, a rabbinical college is honoring her.

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Religion

(RNS) — There’s nothing unusual about the honorary doctorate the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College will grant at commencement next week to Hasia R. Diner — except one thing. Ever since she publicly renounced Zionism in an op-ed in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz 10...

Georgian Orthodox Church elects new leader at fraught time for the influential institution

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Religion

(RNS) — Bishop Shio Mujiri will now be known as Patriarch Shio III, leading the Georgian Orthodox Church, one of the most prominent institutions in the country. He was enthroned in the 1,000-year-old Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, an ancient capital north of...

Iran responds to US ceasefire proposal but Trump rejects it as ‘unacceptable’

by News Feed Editor | May 12, 2026 | Religion

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran sent its response to the latest U.S. proposal to end the Iran war via Pakistani mediators on Sunday, but U.S. President Donald Trump quickly rejected it in a social media post as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!” — the latest setback to...

Spiritually burned out? Tish Harrison Warren and some ancient monks have advice.

by News Feed Editor | May 11, 2026 | Religion

(RNS) — Tish Harrison Warren had everything going for her. A job as a priest at a church she loved. A family she adored. Good friends. And a dream gig writing about faith for The New York Times. And yet, she, like millions of Americans, was exhausted. And God had gone...

Catholic diocese fights Trump administration plan to seize pilgrimage site for border wall

by News Feed Editor | May 11, 2026 | Religion

(RNS) — The Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, signaled in a legal filing it intends to fight the Trump administration’s fast-moving attempts to seize its land through eminent domain to extend the southern border wall. The land targeted by the federal...