by News Feed Editor | Nov 7, 2024 | Religion
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — Katherine Leach’s stomach churned while she was driving to Saturday worship at Gateway Church early this summer. Leach, who has been attending the nondenominational North Texas congregation for the past three years, has also tithed — a...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 7, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Norman Wirzba was not expecting that his book of essays about hope would land the week before Donald Trump scored a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. But the Duke theologian who writes about the environment is no stranger to contemplating...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 7, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Thirty years after Eritrea revoked the citizenship of Jehovah’s Witnesses, international human rights experts are condemning the nation’s persecution of the religious group and advocating for the release of wrongfully detained prisoners. “As of the latest...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 6, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — Former President Donald Trump’s election to a second term prompted faith groups that work with migrants and refugees to reaffirm their commitment to continue their work on Wednesday (Nov. 6), after Trump campaigned on blocking migration and carrying out record...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 6, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — While the United States has become more religiously diverse in recent decades, white Christians remain the largest religious segment of the country, making up about 42% of the population, according to data from the Public Religion Research Institute. And for...
by News Feed Editor | Nov 6, 2024 | Religion
(RNS) — The majority of state ballot initiatives that appeared on ballots on Election Day (Nov. 5) were approved by voters even in red states, but abortion nonetheless seems to still have a future as a hotly contested issue. Abortion was on the ballot in 10 states...
