(RNS) — Transgender Americans make up just 1.6% of the nation’s population, yet in the past few years they have found themselves the center of outsized and unwelcome political attention. As trans woman Laurie Lee Hall put it in a...
(RNS) —This week’s photo gallery includes Bala Chaturdasi festival in Nepal, Buddhists making kimchi in South Korea and more. The post Photos of the Week: Bala Chaturdasi; Buddhists making kimchi appeared first on RNS. Source link...
ZURICH — Poimena, a Swiss non-profit organization dedicated to spiritual growth, has announced the release of Remember Me version 6.7, marking a significant milestone in the evolution of the world’s most popular Bible memorization app. This latest update, which...
(RNS) — Our children are grown now with families of their own, but when they were young, my wife and I enrolled them, as did thousands of observant Jewish parents and more than 2 million Catholic parents, in religious schools....
NEW DELHI (RNS) — In July, more than two years after a Christian prayer service at his home was raided by police, a court in Uttar Pradesh in northern India acquitted Abhishek Gupta, a 41-year-old radiologist, of violating the state’s...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A prominent Bangladeshi Hindu leader who has been leading rallies demanding security for Hindus in the overwhelmingly Muslim nation was ordered detained on charges of sedition Tuesday. The magistrate court of Kazi Shariful Islam denied bail...
(RNS) — Elket Rodríguez, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s global migration advocate, has served migrants on the Texas-Mexico border for years. But until earlier this month, he had never been to the Darien Gap, a dangerous jungle route many migrants traverse...
Happy Thanksgiving! This week on The State of Belief, we look at gratitude and appreciation from several angles: through the eyes of children, and of a theologian who literally wrote the book on giving thanks. Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush...
The one where Jonathan cooks for us. Picture this: a knock on the apartment door, in sweeps Jonathan Woodward, straight off a flight from Maine, grocery bags in hand. A few hours later, the apartment is heavy with the rich...
(RNS) — On our WhatsApp group, the board members of a disability nonprofit I belong to were discussing HR 9495, a bill known as the “nonprofit killer” that passed in the House of Representatives last week by a simple majority...
