John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church postpones event after health officials balk
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Grace Community Church in Sun Valley announced Friday (Feb. 12) it would postpone an annual three-day ministry conference after Los Angeles...
France fights hold of Islamist radicals with dragnets, laws
PARIS (AP) — More than three dozen French police officers descended on a small private school in Paris, blocked the 92 students inside their classrooms,...
Interfaith love a risk amid India’s Hindu nationalist surge
BELAGAVI, India (AP) — Arbaz Mullah’s love story began, as romances often do, when he first laid eyes on the woman of his dreams, Shweta...
On Ash Wednesday, Pope Francis says Lent is an ‘exodus from slavery to freedom’
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis celebrated Ash Wednesday in St. Peter’s Basilica, reminding faithful the Lenten period leading to Easter celebrations is a journey...
Intel leads tech-dominated list of religiously inclusive workplaces
(RNS) — Intel and Texas Instruments are the two most religiously inclusive workplaces among the United States’ 200 largest companies, according to the 2021 Corporate...
Why is a photo of Jared Leto dressed like the Joker and Jesus floating around?
(RNS) — An image of comic book villain the Joker dressed as Jesus Christ is making waves on social media, prompting questions about its origins...
Jews split over storied charity’s support for settlements
JERUSALEM (AP) — Generations of Jews have dropped spare change into the iconic blue boxes of the Jewish National Fund, a 120-year-old Zionist organization that...
First Jehovah’s Witness woman sentenced in Russia after faith declared ‘extremist’
(RNS) — A female Jehovah’s Witness has been sentenced to two years in a Russian prison for practicing her faith, marking the first time the...
Faith leaders urge clemency for Okla. death row inmate, cite mounting evidence
(RNS) — Faith leaders are ramping up their support for an Oklahoma death row inmate as his clemency hearing nears.Julius Jones, 40, was sentenced to...
High court revives ex-student’s suit on religious literature
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is reviving a lawsuit brought by a Georgia college student who sued school officials after being prevented from distributing...