Cinematic journey through Old Testament provides Jewish perspective on Scripture, celebrates common biblical heritage with Christians CHICAGO — The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship) is proud to announce the release of The Chosen People, a new podcast...
(RNS) — In the front row of a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday (Sept. 17) sat Hanaan Shahin, the mother of Wadea Al-Fayoume, the 6-year-old Palestinian American who was brutally killed last October amid escalating anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal’s monthslong festival season began on Tuesday with tens of thousands of devotees pulling a wooden chariot with a young girl revered as a living goddess. Families gathered for feasts and lit incense for the dead...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After 40 years of studies, commissions and contradictions, the Vatican finally approved the spiritual devotion of the faithful at the Marian site at Medjugorje, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in a document issued on Thursday (Sept. 19). “The Dicastery...
Exploding pagers. What’s next in Israel’s counter-attack? The world is buzzing after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded Tuesday across Lebanon, reportedly killing at least 14 people and leaving 2,750 more hospitalized. According to reports, Israel’s...
KENYON, Minnesota (AP) — Serving coffee after Sunday worship outside Holden Lutheran Church, Jeff Davidson said he remains anchored in the congregation his Norwegian ancestors helped found in 1857 among cornfields because it’s “very full of very supportive people.” An...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A diverse group of influential Christian leaders is calling on their fellow faithful to protect democracy, arguing that American Christians are compelled to defend voting freedoms as a “test of faith.” “We write in a moment of...
Fire in the Whole from Westminster John Knox Press is now available Fire in the Whole explores the anger of Black Christians who feel betrayed by white Christianity’s complicity of perpetuating racism. In this transformative work, author Robert Callahan not...
(RNS) — Sexuality won’t be on the agenda when members of the nascent Global Methodist Church convene for the first time Sept. 20-26 in San Jose, Costa Rica. The breakaway denomination established by departing United Methodist churches two years ago...
(RNS) — An investigation into how leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention have dealt with sexual abuse by clergy has cost more than $12 million over the past three years, causing the nation’s largest Protestant denomination to put its Nashville,...
