(The Conversation) — In Oklahoma, the start of the school year is just six weeks away. But one closely watched school that had planned to open in 2024 is now in limbo: St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, a...
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — A court in Pakistan sentenced a Christian man to death for sharing what it said was hateful content against Muslims on social media after one of the worst mob attacks on Christians in the eastern Punjab...
JERUSALEM (RNS) — As president of the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Andrew Rehfeld has met many prospective rabbinical students. Yet he still remembers a candidate that HUC could not accept. “She was an exceptional human” who...
(RNS) — Soon after Roe v. Wade was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago, a novel legal strategy emerged for challenging new state abortion bans. It argued that abortion bans infringe on religious freedom by imposing a...
“History rests in the hands of believers,” says Focus on the Family President Jim Daly COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Two leading conservative Christian groups today announced they have joined forces in an effort to inject “biblical values” into the...
(RNS) — After the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced last week that it would restructure its department of Justice, Peace & Human Development, the department’s partner organizations face uncertainty as they try to discern their next steps without knowing...
(RNS) — In a historic moment, Israel’s two chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, left office on Sunday with no clear successors elected in their stead, leaving the posts vacant for the first time since the 1920s. Last week,...
(RNS) — In June, the management of Pearl Beach in the city of Ulcinj, Montenegro, announced the opening of the first beach exclusively for women who wear hijab. A TikTok video posted on the beach’s account shows a well-signposted area...
(RNS) — Americans idolize youth. We want something new, fresh and beautiful. Wrinkles are not badges of wisdom and maturity. They are ugly and need to be stopped with Botox. Today, we have an elderly pope in Rome, an elderly...
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — Robert Morris, former senior pastor of the prominent nondenominational Gateway Church headquartered in Southlake, Texas, resigned two weeks ago after Cindy Clemishire accused him of molesting her for four years, beginning when she was 12....
