Religion News Service

The 10th Religions for Peace World Assembly launched Aug. 20 with calls for religious groups to take decisive action on the main geopolitical issues of the day, and ending with an unusual “statement of commitment” aimed at fostering multi-religious cooperation.

In politics, it is common to have disagreements over values and goals. What makes government decision-making even more difficult today is that we disagree not only on goals but also on the facts.

The largest presidential election forum focused on the concerns of Native Americans drew several leading Democratic presidential candidates in its first day, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

A letter signed by nearly 30 leading theologians in the liberal Catholic journal Commonweal forcefully rejects any link between nationalism and Christianity and asserts that such a connection can "threaten the integrity of Christian faith."

Three Democratic presidential hopefuls fielded questions from black church leaders on Aug. 16, bouncing between politics and prayer as they vied for support from an audience of about 5,000 black millennials.

"This is not just a celebration for women, or women of color or for the LGBTQIA+ community." 

Signs of the Times: There has been a lot of clerical hand-wringing of late about Catholics who don’t believe what the church teaches about Christ's presence in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. 

A truck attempted to barrel through a group of Jewish protesters who were demonstrating outside a detention center in Rhode Island.

Police in Wyoming are recommending sex abuse charges against two unnamed Catholic leaders in the state.

In no state in the U.S. does even one-quarter of the population say abortion should be illegal in all cases, a new survey shows.

A new social statement from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America labels patriarchy and sexism as sins and acknowledges the church’s complicity in them.

Our age of nonstop communication has brought an array of resources, online and off, for those who wrestle with suffering and loss, and people are employing new ways to support each other when tragedy arrives.

Background checks may give churches a false sense of security, experts say — whether that's due to incomplete sex offender registries, or questions about whether registries really do prevent crimes.

A Chaldean Christian immigrant who was deported from Michigan to Iraq has reportedly died because he was unable to obtain insulin to treat his diabetes.

The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists are charged with three felonies and a misdemeanor and face up to 25 years in prison each for trespassing on a U.S. Navy base in Georgia.

Members of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America taped 9.5 theses to the door of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in Milwaukee as part of their churchwide assembly.

Invoking God and Christian love, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker railed against gun violence and racism in a speech on Aug. 7 at the site of a 2015 church shooting that left nine African American worshippers dead.

Immigration and gun violence are among the topics for discussion as leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America gather this week in Milwaukee.

"At a time when we are facing the 'highest levels of displacement on record,' according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, we urge you to increase the refugee resettlement cap and to admit as many refugees as possible within that cap," the letter reads in part. 

With an executive order from Gov. Roy Cooper, North Carolina makes it 18 states plus the District of Columbia that have laws that ban conversion therapy of minors by licensed health care providers.