- January 30, 2025
With a new president in the White House, women boldly advance peace and multi-faith collaboration in the Middle East
LOS ANGELES / WASHINGTON — January 25, 2025. Women from the Middle East see a new door open to advance the peace process and multi-faith
Deadline quickly nearing for Religion Communicators Council Wilbur Award entries
Cutoff for entering is Friday, January 31 The deadline is almost here for entries in the Religion Communicators Council 2025 Wilbur Awards. All individuals, groups,
Palestinians celebrate their return to northern Gaza after 15 months of war
WADI GAZA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north
In Altadena congregations, no family untouched by fire
ALTADENA, Calif. (RNS) — The Rev. George Van Alstine recalls having to evacuate his Pasadena home as flames from the Eaton fire drew closer. He’d
With federal funds stopped, local faith groups plan to redouble private efforts to settle refugees
PITTSBURGH (RNS) — The Jewish community here is haunted by the specter of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting, when a gunman killed 11
Tulsi Gabbard’s religious background is not complicated, say American Hindus
(RNS) — At a U.S. Senate committee hearing Thursday (Jan. 30), former Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence,
Police say at least 30 people have died in a stampede at the massive Maha Kumbh festival in India
“Suddenly there was pushing in the crowd, and we got trapped. A lot of us fell down and the crowd went uncontrolled,” the Press Trust
An emergency of our own making
(RNS) — I recently watched a war movie in which the threat of “friendly fire” hung over soldiers on the front lines. Those behind the
Bishop Budde asks Trump to show mercy, continuing tradition of Christian leaders ‘speaking truth to power’
(The Conversation) — Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon on Jan. 21, 2025, in which she appealed to President Donald Trump to have mercy toward
St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the saint himself would have said about its veneration
(The Conversation) — Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its