by News Feed Editor | Mar 26, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — Businessman Prakash Buchireddy grew up in small villages near Tirupati, India, a hillside pilgrimage site surrounded by lush green mountains and a Hindu temple once known to give potted plants as prasad, or sacred offerings. These self-sustaining villages of...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 26, 2026 | Religion
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV will travel on Saturday (March 28) from Vatican City, the world’s smallest country, to Monaco, the second smallest — linking two Catholic states whose global influence far exceeds their size. In a one-day trip totaling nine hours, Leo...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 26, 2026 | Religion
CANTERBURY, England (AP) — The new archbishop of Canterbury knocked three times on the doors of the city’s great cathedral on Wednesday, ceremonially demanding to be allowed inside in a tradition laid down over centuries by each new leader of the Church of England....
by News Feed Editor | Mar 26, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — Support for President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration has dropped across all religious groups over the past year, with approval plummeting among white nonevangelicals or mainline Protestants, according to a new survey by the Public Religion Research...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 25, 2026 | Religion
(RNS) — When Hasan Hammad created a Facebook page for his Baltimore-area mosque in 2011, his goal was to expand the ways community members could learn about its programming — not to one day attract millions of views. But over the last few years, the Islamic Society of...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 25, 2026 | Religion
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Mohsen Kadivar follows the war in Iran with a growing sense of déjà vu. A research professor of Islamic studies at Duke University, he has been living in exile from his native Iran for 18 years. A staunch critic of the regime in Tehran and an...
