Religious Articles

ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Two American cardinals and the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government’s immigration crackdown, but they urged everyone to repair strained relations and work together toward...

When empathy became toxic and cruelty became strength for Christian women. Christian womanhood has changed—and not in the ways we could have expected. In this episode, Amanda Henderson talks with the co-hosts of the “Saved By The City” podcast Katelyn Beaty and...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — As Algerians fast, pray and gather for the holy month of Ramadan, a worry lurks in many minds: how to afford the holiday feasts this year. In addition to its religious significance for billions of Muslims, Ramadan also means tables laden with...

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — “This ship was huge. It was like a city-sized ship. And there was hundreds of beings on board,” said Debbie Solaris, a military veteran and one of six panelists sharing their alien encounters with a packed room at the LAX Hilton Hotel in Los...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its top leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear...

JERUSALEM (RNS)  — Early Saturday morning (Feb. 27), as Israeli and American fighter jets began striking targets in Iran, every Israeli cell phone issued an air-raid siren alarm, the signal to go immediately to the nearest bomb shelter. Soon afterward, the country’s...

(The Conversation) — Ali Khamenei was born in Mashhad, Iran, in 1939, as the second son of a local religious leader, Javad Khamenei, and he grew up in relative poverty. He learned to read the Qur’an in early childhood before attending a theological seminary school in...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) – “The Last Judgment,” Michelangelo’s vast fresco painted into the plaster of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is undergoing an extraordinary maintenance process in preparation for Easter, with a team of 20 restorers working in two shifts a day remove a...

(RNS) — On the first night of Ramadan, worshippers stood shoulder to shoulder on rows of blue prayer rugs beneath the glow of string lights in a former elementary school gym in Lubbock, Texas. Just weeks earlier, the building had been abandoned and in disrepair. ...

(RNS) — If the blurb on the back of a history book dared admit it had begun life as an academic paper, you wouldn’t be blamed if you replaced it on the shelf and kept perusing. But the Rev. Boise Kimber’s new book about Black women in ministry, born as a Yale Divinity...

(RNS) — At Middle Church, a historic congregation in Manhattan’s East Village, hundreds gathered on Thursday evening (Feb. 26) for a two-hour “ICE Out, Sing-In” service, where prospective protesters were trained to “try to touch the hearts” of U.S. Immigration and...

(RNS) — Several Black clergymen who are alumni of Morehouse College, a historically Black men’s college, have written an open letter to their alma mater objecting to a new portrait of Mormon Church founder Joseph Smith hung in the campus chapel. The chapel, named...