by News Feed Editor | Nov 15, 2024 | Religion
NEW YORK (RNS) — On a weeknight just half a block from Times Square, theatergoers can watch as Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell Sr. grips his mic for his big solo number, Billy Graham spins into a dance break and Pentecostal televangelist Tammy Faye, in her...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 15, 2024 | Religion
BALTIMORE (RNS) — After years of complaints that they have ignored Pope Francis’ teachings in their biannual meetings, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ fall meeting this week seemed to make up for lost time, discussing the pope’s 2015 environmental encyclical “Laudato Si’,”...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 15, 2024 | Religion
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (RNS) — On the Sunday after the recent presidential election (Nov. 10), Allen Jackson got up to recognize the many veterans in the congregation and to give thanks for the election results, to applause from many in the white evangelical megachurch’s...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 15, 2024 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The No. 2 officer at the Vatican said that the Holy See is hopeful about working with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to address peacekeeping options as wars escalate in Europe and beyond. Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s comments were made...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 14, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Sean Rowe, the newly installed presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, knows a thing or two about austerity. As a boy, growing up in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, he saw Westinghouse Electric Corp. shutter its plant. Later, Sharon Steel went bankrupt, laying off...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 14, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Mike Huckabee’s journey to becoming the U.S. ambassador to Israel began 50 years ago. The former Arkansas governor, presidential candidate and Fox News host first visited Israel with a friend on a tour of the Middle East not long after graduating from high...
