Her goal, she told a Pittsburgh JCC audience, is to show Israel in a lens not political or religious, but to cook, tell ...

This is the fourth of a series of columns by the author on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas.” This piece focuses on Chapter 4. For earlier columns, see ...

A Reform synagogue on the Mardi Gras route — with no dues and fluid denominational lines — is a catalyst for Jewish life after catastrophe.

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Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri and 17 other leaders of the underground Zion Church were detained in October in one of China’s largest ...

The Trump administration’s Religious Liberty Commission argues that religious freedom is under attack and blames the ‘wall of ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is creating another pro-family day, part of a broader ‘traditional values’ campaign run by the ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first American-born pope may have brought Washington and Rome closer symbolically, but not necessarily politically, as tensions over peace and immigration continue to ...

(RNS) — It should be a contradiction that the Confederate flag was marched alongside the Betsy Ross flag through the streets near the U.S. Capitol on Independence Day. The rebel banner was brought to ...

(RNS) — Katie Gaddini, a visiting scholar at Stanford University, spoke to RNS about the women she profiles in her new book, "Esther's Army." (RNS) — “If I perish, I perish.” That’s the chant ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Standing among the graves of migrants, Pope Leo turned America’s birthday into a pointed appeal for welcoming the stranger. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — This 4 th of July, on the 250 th ...