Religion News Service

After lawsuits and a Supreme Court decision, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a new policy extending disaster relief to churches, synagogues and other congregations.

Conservative Catholic dissidents, who have been attacking Pope Francis, showed their true colors recently by attacking retired Pope Benedict, calling his writings "subversive" and "modernist." That's right, they think Benedict is a heretic.

What's coming for religion in the next 12 months? RNS asked some of the country's top faith leaders, scholars and activists to predict what changes the religious landscape will see.

At least 10 people, including eight Coptic Christians, were killed after unidentified gunmen opened fire outside a church in a south Cairo suburb, Egypt's Health Ministry spokesman said Friday. It was the latest attack targeting the mostly Muslim country's embattled minority.

An attorney for victims for clergy sex abuse said Thursday that a judge has ordered all sides back to mediation in the years-long bankruptcy case of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.

A brutal attack claimed by the Islamic State group devastated a two-story Shiite Muslim cultural center in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 41 people and wounding another 84.

Israel's transportation minister is pushing ahead with a plan to dig a railway tunnel under Jerusalem's Old City ending at the Western Wall with a station named after President Donald Trump.

President Trump’s embrace of evangelical politics, a shooting at a Texas church, a wedding cake that a Christian baker refused to make and the status of Jerusalem also grabbed headlines.

For the second year in a row, President Trump and his conservative evangelical supporters topped the list of the 10 most important religion news stories of the year.

Clergy abuse victims see strong similarities between recent allegations against powerful men for sexual misconduct and their own abuse by members of the clergy.

Beginning his priestly life as a journalist, Bernard Law rose quickly up the ecclesiastical ladder only to come crashing down in scandal and disgrace.

More than 140 evangelical Christian women from across the political and theological spectrums have signed onto a statement calling churches to end the silence around violence against women and the church's participation in it.

Vatican City -- Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early Wednesday, the Vatican said. He was 86.

An Australian inquiry into child abuse recommended Friday that the Catholic Church lift its demand of clerical celibacy and that priests be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of pedophilia.

If there ever was a "war on Christmas" in America, Santa may have won.

The man accused of carrying out a bomb attack in New York City's subway system was influenced by the sermons and writings of a radical Muslim preacher but appeared to have no known links to local radical groups, Bangladeshi officials said.

A jury on Friday sentenced an 85-year-old former priest to life in prison for the 1960 killing of a schoolteacher and former beauty queen who was a member of the parish he served.

The internet has been called "the world’s biggest sewer," where hate speech and fake news are polluting a global source of solid and valuable online information.

Australia's Parliament voted Thursday to allow same-sex marriage across the nation, following a bitter debate settled by a government survey of voters that strongly endorsed change.

Defying dire, worldwide warnings, President Donald Trump on Wednesday broke with decades of U.S. and international policy by recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital.