— With the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the resulting elimination of legal access to abortion in 25 states and counting, Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) is offering a public, non-credit, six-week online course to equip people of faith with...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Donald Trump attended the inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday morning (Jan 21), finishing off the festivities marking the beginning of his second term with an interfaith service filled with prayers and hymns...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office appears to keep all but a few refugees from entering the country, saying that the United States lacks the resources to absorb them. ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of frozen lakes and rivers, have been forced to cancel their traditional ceremonies due to unusually warm winter temperatures....
WASHINGTON (RNS) — As President Trump was sworn in three miles away at the U.S. Capitol, hundreds of people rallied at an African Methodist Episcopal Church to make a Martin Luther King Jr. Day pledge to support diversity, equity and...
(RNS) — Immigration rights activist Ravi Ragbir, who had been under a deportation order since his release from prison for fraud in 2006, received a pardon from President Joseph Biden in a last-minute flurry of pardons issued Sunday (Jan. 19). ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — A Michigan imam was unexpectedly absent from President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, raising questions as to why the Islamic leader did not offer a benediction as scheduled. Earlier this month, officials listed Imam Husham Al-Husainy, who...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The second inauguration of President Donald Trump was a faith-filled affair on Monday (Jan 20), as the former president marked his return to the White House with religious services and prayers from a range of faith leaders,...
(RNS) — Everyone is talking about the geo-politics of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas — of Trump and Netanyahu and Hamas and Gaza and Qatar. They will speak of how the agreement is an act of cooperation between...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A day after calling incoming President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan for migrants “a disgrace,” Pope Francis said Monday (Jan. 20) that he hopes the United States under the new administration will avoid “hatred, discrimination or...
