WASHINGTON (RNS) — President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of all but three people on federal death row, converting their sentences to life in prison. It’s a victory for religious advocates who have pressured the president to make the...
This week, Ruth Graham, National Reporter on Religion, Faith and Values at The New York Times, joins Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush to reflect on the dynamic intersection of religion and politics in America, especially in light of recent political developments...
(RNS) — This week’s photo gallery includes prayers and pilgrims around the world from a variety of faiths. The post Photos of the Week: Prayers and pilgrims around the world appeared first on RNS. Source link...
(RNS) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday (Dec. 20) that he has nominated Brian Burch, the president and co-founder of CatholicVote, as ambassador to the Holy See. Burch wrote on X that he was “deeply honored and humbled” to be...
(RNS) — At a congregational meeting last week, members of Columbus Mennonite Church in Ohio’s state capital gathered to figure out how they might respond to President-elect Trump’s call to enact “the largest deportation” in U.S. history. The church has...
PITTSBURGH (RNS) — The Rev. Aidan Smith is no stranger to the dark, he told the members of Trinity Cathedral gathered beneath soaring gothic archways lit by candlelight in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday evening (Dec. 18). Raised in northwest...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — As the globe readies for Christmas, a Sudanese bishop is reiterating his call for “silencing of guns” in his country, where 21 months of war have caused a terrible humanitarian crisis. Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo of the...
KONYA, Turkey (RNS) — “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.” These words, belonging to the 12th-century poet and Sufi Muslim mystic Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhi Rūmī,...
(RNS) — Many years ago, I was called to be my ward’s Primary chorister. Soon after, the Primary president took me aside and told me I had just been given the most important job in the entire Church of Jesus...
Dallas father & relative of a holocaust survivor serves victims of war, personally delivering food, medicine & essential supplies. COLLEYVILLE, Texas — Michael Evans Jr., a 40-year-old minister and father of four from Colleyville, Texas, returned yesterday from a two-week...
