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c. 2011 USA Today (RNS) Charitable giving is trickling back up as the economy heals, but it could take years to return to pre-recession levels, nonprofit leaders say....

(RNS) The Episcopal bishop of South Carolina, who has distanced his diocese from the national denomination since its sanction of openly gay bishops, has not "abandoned" the Episcopal Church, a chur...

As Occupy camps nationwide dealt with police crackdowns and the inevitable onset of winter temperatures, religious communities of all...

Advent is the season of the showing.

The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is working to infiltrate the whole creation with God's love.

New today from the Century.

Darkness does not come from a different place than light; it is not presided over by a different God.

Nairobi, Kenya, November 28 (ENInews)--As new HIV/AIDS infections and related deaths decline, Christian and Muslim leaders in Kenya discussed how to improve their strategies at a conference in Nair...

c. 2011 Religion News Service BERLIN (RNS) Just because the pope gets to ride in the popemobile doesn't give him license not to wear a seat belt. ...

c. 2011 Religion News Service...

Nearly a year after Tunisia set off the Arab Spring of popular revolt, the face of political Islam in this fledgling Muslim democracy...

As the second Sunday in advent approaches, I find the prophets of the season compelling. To my ears, their message sounds pretty consistent: "Change the ways of this world."

New today from the Century.

Years ago I cringed when I saw that the Onion sells a t-shirt with the slogan, "I appreciate the Muppets on a much deeper level than you." My friend John and I had just been discussing the Muppets' sly use of metafictional elements.

Darkness does not come from a different place than light; it is not presided over by a different God.

I'm particularly eager for Advent this year. Per­haps it's because recent world events have been so relentlessly grim.

I decided our family's Christmas would be simple and spirit-centered. Green to parenting, I defined spiritual as anything that allowed me a minute to reflect on what, beyond the laundry, mattered.

Nairobi, Kenya, November 23 (ENInews)--With rainfall, increased humanitarian aid and military operations inside Somalia, the movement of migrants into Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee complex, h...

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CLEVELAND (RNS) Northeast Ohio native Suhad Hasan says neither her Muslim faith nor her headscarf should be an issue where she works....