by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — A federal judge rejected a settlement that would have lifted an IRS ban on pastors endorsing candidates, saying the court had no authority to approve an agreement, in a surprising end to a decades-long battle. Judge J. Campbell Barker of the U.S. District...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — On the eve of the holiday of Passover, a new poll shows a majority of American Jews oppose the joint U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, even as 90% of them say they oppose the Iranian regime. The poll, commissioned by J Street, the liberal Zionist advocacy and lobby...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — As politicians in Washington singled out Somali and Muslim immigrant communities in Minnesota last year, a familiar stereotype resurfaced: Muslims as outsiders and “takers.” And amid a high-profile investigation into a pandemic-related fraud scheme in the...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Religion
When Sarah Mullally was installed as archbishop of Canterbury, it looked like a breakthrough. It was. But it didn’t happen by accident. In this episode, Amanda Henderson talks with Catherine Pepinster, a journalist who reported on Mullally’s rise and the network who...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — The Episcopal Diocese of New York has launched the second phase of its racial reparations efforts, releasing a new report detailing how it plans to invest the nearly $1.2 million the diocesan convention began committing to the effort in 2019. The document,...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Religion
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argues the law...
