(RNS) — Grinning before a congregation on the outskirts of Indianapolis, a woman named Rhonda was baptized in a horse trough in 2014 as her girlfriend and kids looked on. A decade later, the pastor who baptized her that day...
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, Ash Wednesday and more. The post Photos of the Week: Bloody Sunday anniversary; Ash Wednesday appeared first on RNS. Source link...
Organization seeks to bring enduring hope to individuals afflicted by neglected tropical diseases around the world GREENVILLE, S.C. — American Leprosy Missions, a nonprofit helping persons affected by neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) like leprosy to be healed in body and...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Washington’s new archbishop, Cardinal Robert McElroy, encouraged Catholics at his installation Mass on Tuesday (March 11) to have hope and show mercy in a service that included prayers in eight languages, with multiple mentions of the well-being...
(RNS) — The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who had a leading role on campus criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza has sparked sharp divisions within the American Jewish community. Mahmoud Khalil, an activist in last year’s pro-Palestinian...
(RNS) — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound — all part of a class of drugs called GLP-1 medications — have been a gamechanger for people struggling with diabetes and obesity, and, as celebrities from Oprah Winfrey to Khloé Kardashian to...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — Evangelical Christian groups are calling on Congress to reinstate foreign aid programs shuttered by President Donald Trump’s administration, arguing the government’s actions will hurt millions of people around the world. Addressing a crowd of around three dozen...
(RNS) — Hindus in Los Angeles and beyond are experiencing fear and sadness and hoping for peace after the largest temple in California was vandalized with threatening graffiti over the weekend. On Saturday morning (March 8), police deputies in the...
(RNS) — In Advent of last year, a Nativity scene at the Vatican briefly showed the baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh, along with the spurious declaration that “Jesus was Palestinian.” This theme, which has been around for some years,...
I am talking with a kid about the upcoming festival of Purim, and this is what she asked me. “Why aren’t there more people like Queen Esther today?” This was my answer to that child. “There are. My friend,...
