(RNS) — In a head-scratching turn of events, the executive board of the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm now says its leader has not been fired. On Monday evening (July 22), the SBC Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission announced...
(RNS) — Nothing could be more different from how America chooses a president and the Catholic Church chooses a pope. America chooses a president every four years, while the Catholic Church chooses a pope only after his predecessor dies or...
(RNS) — The leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics and public policy entity was fired Monday (July 22), a day after he praised President Joe Biden’s decision to end his re-election bid. “In accordance with our bylaws, the executive...
(RNS) — The Mormon Satan used to command worlds and control a third of the host of heaven. LDS theology, both official and unofficial, credited him with having power over the water, possessing people’s souls and bodies and marshaling demons and...
INDIANAPOLIS (RNS) — As they sent more than 50,000 Catholics who attended the National Eucharistic Congress on their way, the bishops who organized the five-day event that ended Sunday (July 21) may have sensed they were preaching to the proverbial...
MOUNT VERNON, Ill. (RNS) — First Baptist Church survived a tornado, church schisms and a pair of worldwide pandemics in its more than a century and a half of ministry in this small Southern Illinois town, about an hour east...
(RNS) — You would not think it would be this way. Given the situation, you would think I would be seeing people walking around Jerusalem with sad faces. Or, angry faces. Or, perhaps, empty stares. But, that is not the...
(RNS) — President Joe Biden made history on Sunday (July 21) by withdrawing his candidacy for a second term. The reconfigured Democratic presidential ticket he endorsed, with Vice President Kamala Harris at the top, would be historic in itself, but...
(RNS) — A historic mosque in Washington, D.C., will receive a grant to help preserve its structure, one of 30 Black heritage sites supported by a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Masjid Muhammad, also known as The...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Lawyers for a Christian homeless shelter were in a federal appeals court Friday to challenge a Washington state anti-discrimination law that would require the charity to hire LGBTQ+ people and others who do not share its...
