Episode constitutes the little-known population transfer of over 135,000 Jews NEW YORK — The prospect of a population transfer in the Middle East has dominated headlines and ignited fierce debate over the past two weeks. While unpopular in some quarters, population...
(The Conversation) — Prince Karim Aga Khan, who died on Feb. 4, 2025, served as the religious leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world since being appointed as the 49th hereditary imam in 1957. He came to be known around...
(RNS) — The winner of the 2025 Grammy Award for best new age, ambient or chant album — a category once dominated by Enya — was an album titled “Triveni,” meaning “the confluence of three rivers” in Sanskrit, an apt...
(RNS) — In the more than five years that Stillmeadow Community Fellowship in Baltimore has worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service to rehabilitate the 10-acre forest on its urban land, what stands out to the Rev. Michael...
NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 18 people, including 14 women, were killed in a stampede at a railway station in India’s capital of New Delhi, the Press Trust of India news agency reported Sunday. Many of the victims were...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis’ scheduled meetings and appointments have been canceled until Wednesday after doctors at the Gemelli hospital in Rome where he is being treated referred to his “complex clinical situation” in a Vatican statement on Monday...
(RNS) — “We don’t need another hero.” Those were the words of the late Tina Turner. Except, she was wrong. We do need another hero. And another one. In America today, we are experiencing a courage deficit. In the last...
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday after a weeklong bout of bronchitis worsened and was receiving drug therapy for a respiratory tract infection, the Vatican said. It was the latest setback to the 88-year-old’s pontiff’s health that forced...
(RNS) — Every time Pope Francis catches a cold, I get anxious. When he goes to the hospital, I panic. I love Francis and hope he can continue as pope forever, but I know I’m not being realistic. We are...
This week, activist and theologian Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis joins host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to discuss the celebration and reflection of Black history, and the intersection of faith and activism. Together, they explore the ongoing fight for racial...
