BROWNSVILLE, Texas (RNS) — Back in December, a group of migrants, released just hours before from detention centers or Customs and Border Protection processing, sat beside a large photo of Nazareth in the sanctuary of Iglesia Bautista West Brownsville, ready...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In October of 1996, Vatican spokesperson Joaquin Navarro Valls admitted to reporters concerned about the health of Pope John Paul II that the 80-year-old pontiff suffered from “extrapyramidal syndrome,” a medical umbrella term that takes in...
(RNS) — In nearly every major American city and in many small towns, Christian Science reading rooms are found mixed in with storefronts. Passersby may hardly notice them, but to those who stop to wonder what goes on inside, their...
(RNS) — Last year, as I arrived in Ireland, the airport customs officer asked me where I was originally from. I told her, “Palestine.” She looked at me, smiled, and said, “Every true Irish person is Palestinian at heart as well.” And with...
20 to receive organization’s top honors for 2024 work The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) proudly announces the 2025 Wilbur Award recipients, recognizing exceptional work by 20 media outlets completed in 2024 by the secular (non-religious) media in the fields of print and...
(RNS) — The Jewish holiday of Purim is traditionally a wild and woolly festival in which costumes, noise making and drinking are encouraged — in synagogue no less — as Jews gather for a public reading of the biblical Book...
NEW YORK (RNS) — Around 150 activists occupied the Trump Tower lobby Thursday (March 13) to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist arrested Saturday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over his involvement in pro-Palestinian student protests...
(RNS) — Anshul Virmani, a software consultant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said his colleagues at work begin asking about Holi long before his children do. “They always ask, ‘When is the color festival? When are you guys gonna do the color-themed...
(RNS) — In a Super Bowl ad last month, Hall-of-Fame quarterback Tom Brady and rapper-turned-pitchman Snoop Dogg stood toe-to-toe, pretending to throw shade on each other for their differences — where they are from, how they talk and act. Snoop...
(RNS) — Let me tell you about my colleague, Rabbi Ari Jun. He serves as a rabbi in Cincinnati — which just happens to be the birthplace of every institution in American Reform Judaism. There was to be a rally...
