(RNS) — Tony Campolo, who died Tuesday (Nov. 19), was known as a great preacher but was, above all, an evangelist who proclaimed “good news to the poor,” just as Jesus did when he launched his mission at Nazareth. That...
Rabbi Jeff Salkin sits down with Rabbi Jonah Pesner, one of American Judaism’s most prominent voices and the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. Together, they dive into the deeply rooted relationship of Judaism, politics and social...
(RNS) — In the first months of the Israel-Hamas war, some of the loudest critics and the largest pro-Palestinian rallies originated with progressive Jewish-led groups such as IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace. Both welcome non-Jews, and their Jewish members...
ROME (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse urged the Vatican on Monday to expand its zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002 to the rest of the world, arguing that children everywhere should be...
(RNS) — Tony Campolo, an American Baptist minister and sociologist who spent decades trying to convince evangelicals and other Christians that their faith should motivate them to address social ills like poverty and racism, has died. He was 89. A...
BALTIMORE (RNS) — Ever since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court case struck down the national right to abortion, anti-abortion advocates, including the Unites States’ Catholic bishops, have struggled to gain voters’ support in limiting access...
(RNS) — Since the role of bishops in the Catholic Church is so important to the life of a local church, the process by which a bishop is chosen has tremendous consequences for ordinary Catholics, and yet they currently have no...
(RNS) — Before “Wicked” was a Blockbuster film and a hit Broadway musical, it was a 1995 novel rife with dark twists and a whole lot of religion. Gregory Maguire’s origin story for the Wicked Witch of the West introduces...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — In his sermon on Sunday (Nov. 17), Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town, the Anglican primate of Southern Africa, warned that reports of abuse by church leaders will likely rise in the wake of the resignation...
US organizations support Palestinian Christians’ call to Take a Stand for the Holy Land WASHINGTON — The Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace, Churches for Middle East Peace, and Friends of Sabeel North America have launched a campaign to protest Israel’s...
