NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Despite the Sudanese civil war that’s devastated the region, the All Saints Anglican Cathedral in Khartoum is still standing. But its compound is now a graveyard, with a vandalized altar and missing pews, which have been...
(RNS) — This week, outlandish allegations that, in a small city in Ohio, Haitian immigrants were hunting down and eating people’s cats, dogs and other pets spread across the internet, even making an appearance in the presidential debate. Though there’s...
(The Conversation) — A self-driving taxi has no passengers, so it parks itself in a lot to reduce congestion and air pollution. After being hailed, the taxi heads out to pick up its passenger – and tragically strikes a pedestrian...
(AP) — Demoralized by the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war, Palestinian American Samia Assed found in Vice President Kamala Harris’ ascension — and her running mate pick — “a little ray of hope.” That hope, she said, shattered...
(RNS) — I had not thought of him in many years. But when I learned recently of the death of Rabbi Michael Lerner, a left-wing Jewish activist and author, at the age of 81, I winced and I smiled and...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In an unmistakable contrast to the emptying churches that surround him in Europe, Pope Francis encountered fields and churches filled with scores of Catholics as he arrived Monday (Sept. 9) in the Pacific nation of East...
WOODSTOCK, Ill. (RNS) — It’s just before 10 on the Saturday morning before Labor Day and the Dharma Hall at the Blue Lotus Temple is beginning to fill up. At the front of the room, practitioners sit or kneel on...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In Papua New Guinea, Pope Francis confronted discrimination against women and girls in society at large, but particularly in the Catholic Church, where positions of leadership and authority belong nearly entirely to men. Francis landed Friday...
Formal relationship makes accredited online courses available to thousands of emerging ministry leaders around the world ORLANDO, Fla. — The Global Church Divinity School (GCDS), an online pastor training resource launched in 2001 by the Global Church Network (GCN), is...
(RNS) — A group of evangelical Christians hoping to reclaim their tradition from the culture wars put out a call Monday (Sept. 9) for a broader understanding of evangelicalism urging a rejection of “political idolatry and its messengers” as well...
