OPINION: Religious communities have both the reach and the responsibility to speak clearly for peace. religionnews.com/2026/04/17/p...

“We wanted to explore that tension,” historian and author Jemar Tisby told RNS. “How can people who claim to follow a migrant, Jesus, also celebrate when migrants are shut out from seeking safety?”

OPINION: (The Conversation) — Satellite television has been a key tool for evangelical churches to reach Christians and potential converts in Iran.

OPINION: It would look like this.

The pastors argued that Christian nationalism isn’t a new idea — it’s a return to America’s founding.

NAIROBI (RNS) — The pontiff's visit to oil-rich Angola is expected to address inequality, youth unemployment and the church’s role in a country still shaped by war and Catholic colonialism.

Standing in the spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech, Church of God in Christ leaders said that a $1.2 million federal grant will be used to modernize the treasured piece of the Civil Rights Movement.

NAIROBI (RNS) — The pontiff's visit to oil-rich Angola is expected to address inequality, youth unemployment and the church’s role in a country still shaped by war and Catholic colonialism.

It’s a new iteration of an earth-based Judaism movement where Bay Area Jews are finding their spiritual home outside a traditional synagogue and with environmental and feminist ideals at the congregation’s center.

“Beyond Wellness: How Restoring the Religious Roots of Spiritual Practices Can Heal Us,” suggests that when spiritual practices are devoid of ethical frameworks and communal obligations, they’ll fail to satisfy people’s hunger for purpose.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Stopping to chat as he made his way from row to row that first day, Leo had told journalists that he was merely preaching the Gospel when he called for peace and criticized war, and that he didn’t fear the Trump administration.

More young women seem to be giving up on God — or at least organized religion.

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Stopping to chat as he made his way from row to row that first day, Leo had told journalists that he was merely preaching the Gospel when he called for peace and criticized war, and that he didn’t fear the Trump administration.

After President Donald Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV and his foreign policy on social media this week, U.S. Catholics, and especially bishops, have largely reacted with condemnation and dismay. religionnews.com/2026/04/16/a...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. However, Israel has not been fighting with Lebanon itself, but rather with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants inside the country, who were not formally part of the agreement.

“What’s unusual about this one is that his base didn’t eat it up,” said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor of history and religion at Calvin University. “It caused some real division within his religious base."

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. However, Israel has not been fighting with Lebanon itself, but rather with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants inside the country, who were not formally part of the agreement.

OPINION: Long before the US founding, Jewish tradition wrestled with questions about the nature of freedom. religionnews.com/2026/04/17/w...

OPINION: (RNS) — Long before the US founding, Jewish tradition wrestled with questions about the nature of freedom.

The book offers a sobering and compassionate critique of society’s failure to protect women — and especially poor women.

Five years ago, Beth Moore made national headlines when she left the Southern Baptist Convention, the denomination that had been her whole life. She talked to RNS about what happened next and why she still loves teaching the Bible.

OPINION: (RNS) — Religious communities have both the reach and the responsibility to speak clearly for peace.

OPINION: One man seemed to imagine himself as Jesus. The other one simply tried to act like him.

OPINION: (RNS) — Religious communities have both the reach and the responsibility to speak clearly for peace.

For six weeks every year, millions of Orthodox Christians around the world adopt a largely vegan diet, abstaining from meat, dairy products, eggs, and fish with backbones.

OPINION: (RNS) — One man seemed to imagine himself as Jesus. The other one simply tried to act like him.

OPINION: (RNS) — It would look like this.

(RNS) — The bill is now heading to the Senate, and President Donald Trump announced he would veto it if it reached his desk.

NEW YORK (RNS) — The event will take place exactly 100 years after Paramahansa Yogananda's first appearance at Carnegie Hall.

(RNS) — Seeing handwritten works on law, theology, astronomy and other subjects challenges the narrative that enslaved Africans arrived in the US with little education or scholarly traditions.

(RNS) — Seeing handwritten works on law, theology, astronomy and other subjects challenges the narrative that enslaved Africans arrived in the US with little education or scholarly traditions.

NEW YORK (RNS) — The event will take place exactly 100 years after Paramahansa Yogananda's first appearance at Carnegie Hall.

(RNS) — The bill is now heading to the Senate, and President Donald Trump announced he would veto it if it reached his desk.

OPINION: (RNS) — It would look like this.

OPINION: (RNS) — One man seemed to imagine himself as Jesus. The other one simply tried to act like him.

OPINION: (RNS) — Long before the US founding, Jewish tradition wrestled with questions about the nature of freedom.

OPINION: (The Conversation) — Satellite television has been a key tool for evangelical churches to reach Christians and potential converts in Iran.

(RNS) — ‘Throughout both of Trump’s terms, he’s done so many things that I thought were going to be over the line, and it never happens,’ said scholar Matthew Sutton. ‘But this moment, it does feel like a turning point.’ religionnews.com/2026/04/16/w...

(RNS) — Over nearly the last year, the bishops have gradually ramped up a forceful and united defense of the American pope’s critiques of Trump administration policies.

(RNS) — ‘Throughout both of Trump’s terms, he’s done so many things that I thought were going to be over the line, and it never happens,’ said Matthew Sutton, a scholar of religious history at Washington State University. ‘But this moment, it does feel like a turning point.’

(RNS) — ‘Throughout both of Trump’s terms, he’s done so many things that I thought were going to be over the line, and it never happens,’ said Matthew Sutton, a scholar of religious history at Washington State University. ‘But this moment, it does feel like a turning point.’

(RNS) — Over nearly the last year, the bishops have gradually ramped up a forceful and united defense of the American pope’s critiques of Trump administration policies.

(RNS) — The country’s Episcopal archbishop is back in Khartoum as more people return to rebuild the capital.

(RNS) — Women have long been more religious than men. But a new study finds the gap closing as more young women under 30 identify as “none” — unaffiliated.

(RNS) — Women have long been more religious than men. But a new study finds the gap closing as more young women under 30 identify as “none” — unaffiliated.

(RNS) — The country’s Episcopal archbishop is back in Khartoum as more people return to rebuild the capital.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — The pope’s historic visit brings rare calm to conflict-ridden Bamenda and renewed calls for reconciliation across religious lines.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon — The pope’s historic visit brings rare calm to conflict-ridden Bamenda and renewed calls for reconciliation across religious lines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a statement after the two-hour session ended, the State Department praised the two sides for what it called “productive discussions on steps toward launching direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.”

OPINION: (RNS) — A Christian call to pray, give and act as the hands and feet of Jesus for children devastated by Sudan’s war.