Religion News Service

A Reform rabbi and a longtime columnist for Religion News Service, James Rudin has met with popes, presidents and world-famous evangelists in his efforts to improve Jewish-Christian relations.

Members of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized a recently renewed Vatican deal with China, saying it emboldens the Chinese government to crackdown on Christian communities.

My heart goes out to the seminarians who are going through the current trauma of change under Pope Francis, because I went through the same trauma after Vatican II.

Members of the pope's opposition are well situated to gather like-minded cardinals in the sort of conspiratorial meetings not known since the Middle Ages. 

People want the church to be a home for the wounded and broken, not an institution for the perfect.

Meier spent years arguing that faith and scientific research could enliven biblical scholarship about the life of Jesus.

A prominent Catholic parish in Chicago denounced abuse allegations against its popular pastor and demanded an investigation into those allegations be resolved quickly.

"There's really no space in the nonprofit world, racial justice world or the ministry world that is just for women of color."

New air quality sensors, a collaboration of a multifaith coalition and local scientists, are tracking harmful pollutants in the city where predominantly Black neighborhoods are disproportionately exposed.

A new NBC News/Telemundo poll focusing on the Latino electorate found that 41% of Latinos who do not currently claim Catholicism as their religion said they had previously been Catholic.

Patty Krawec, a writer and podcaster from Lac Seul First Nation in Canada, talked to Religion News Service about her new book Becoming Kin and why rethinking — or "unforgetting," as she calls it — history is important.

Survey data show that church attendance, not party, is more likely to determine how Christians view the kingdom.

Believers should become poll workers with a firm conviction that discrimination, lying and stealing are sins in any circumstances. As poll workers, Christians are obliged to follow their values, not partisan preferences.

The bishops' synthesis of 10 months of listening sessions finds that many wounds reported by laity are inflicted not by individuals but by the institution itself.

If the royal family is going to be relevant for the 21st century, it needs to help the world face the most important crisis of the century. And long before it was fashionable, Charles was warning about climate change.

Govs. Abbott, Ducey, DeSantis and their minions are trafficking human beings. These migrants are people, not numbers, who have risked everything for a chance at a better life, for a chance at survival.

While some Christian groups would like the U.S. government to make their faith the official religion of the U.S., a new poll shows most Americans know that would be unconstitutional.

Hurricane Fiona, the latest storm to strike Puerto Rico, arrived as groups like Catholic Extension were still working to restore church buildings damaged by Hurricane Maria five years earlier.

The process of converting bodies into soil is now legal in California after Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sept. 18 signed a bill that will allow human composting in the Golden State.