(The Conversation) — Fifty-eight years ago in the summer of 1966, a group of Black church leaders took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times titled “Black Power.” Their densely worded statement called on national leaders, “white churchmen,”...
BALTIMORE (RNS) — The Rev. Jerry Young, the two-term president of the National Baptist Convention, USA, preached his final annual address as leader of the historically Black denomination as members attending the NBCUSA annual session prepared to vote in what...
(RNS) — We all think of Catholic nuns as the force that created Catholic schools and made them what they are in the Catholic experience. But in the 19th century, orders of women religious also founded dozens of Catholic hospitals,...
(RNS) — A bishop recently told me of a minister in their church who was angrily attacked for the Scripture he had chosen for a Sunday service. The church member claimed it implied criticism of a particular presidential candidate. The...
KIGALI, Rwanda (RNS) — On a recent Sunday morning, a dozen people congregated in a home in the Nyabisindu neighborhood of Rwanda’s capital to ponder their next steps after the government shuttered numerous churches for noncompliance with health and safety...
(RNS) — Campus protests over the war in Gaza last school year featured scenes of chaos around tent encampments with police crackdowns and student arrests. Jewish establishment organizations then rushed in with headline-grabbing reports detailing an unprecedented spike in antisemitism...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The age of world leaders may be hotly debated elsewhere, but in Indonesia this week, Pope Francis, the 87-year-old head of Roman Catholicism, began the most physically demanding trip of his pontificate so far. It was...
Pressure is mounting on Israel after its military confirmed over the weekend that six more Israeli hostages, including a 23-year-old Israeli-American, were found dead in a tunnel complex under Gaza, reportedly executed just hours before their bodies were recovered. Widespread...
58% say religion will play a role in whom they support for president A new survey conducted by Religion News Service (RNS) gives insights into American’s intentions and sentiments as we approach the 2024 Presidential Election. Among the most significant...
(RNS) — A Rutgers University task force on caste discrimination on its campus released its inaugural report last month and recommended adding “caste” as a protected category to anti-discrimination policies at the school. Audrey Truschke, a professor of South Asian...
