(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes Ancestors Day for Cambodian Buddhists, celebrations for the Prophet Muhammad's birthday and more. The post Photos of the Week: Ancestors Day; Prophet’s Birthday appeared first on Religion News Service. Source link...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican on Thursday gave the green light for Catholics to continue flocking to a southern Bosnian village where children reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary, offering its approval for devotion at one of the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Faith leaders and climate activists in Africa announced their support Friday (Sept. 20) for an international treaty to halt the production and use of fossil fuels, the main cause of climate change, analogous to non-proliferation treaties...
(RNS) — Outside my fourth-floor window, the sounds of devotional chanting, lively music and drum beats echoed in the narrow street below. It was Ganesh Chaturthi, a 10-day Hindu festival that earlier this month celebrated the birth of Ganesha, the beloved...
JD Vance’s memoir established him as a rural white voter whisperer. What does it tell us about what kind of vice president he’d be? Less than a decade ago, America was introduced to JD Vance, who pitched himself as a...
(RNS) — This month, Yale University Press released “The Widening of God’s Mercy: Sexuality Within the Biblical Story,” a highly anticipated book coauthored by preeminent New Testament scholar Richard Hays and his son, Christopher, himself a respected Old Testament scholar,...
(The Conversation) — As the Jewish High Holidays approach, which begin with Rosh Hashanah and continue with Yom Kippur, the theme of forgiveness keeps coming to my mind. The 10 days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur are referred to...
(RNS) — Sometime during the pandemic, my husband, Bob, and I dreamed up a project: We decided to attend a different Shabbat service almost every Friday night — from the comfort of home. We began dropping in on congregations, mainly...
Christa Brown speaks about experiencing abuse, at a rally outside the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex, June 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Ala. (RNS photo/Butch Dill) (RNS) — Christa Brown has heard former President...
(RNS) — This summer, Mark Andrew Jefferson, who was leading a teaching workshop at Princeton Theological Seminary, prompted ChatGPT to write a homily based on the Gospel of Luke’s parable of the good Samaritan. For good measure, he ordered the...
