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(RNS) The Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., announced Tuesday (May 31) that she is leaving an Atlanta-area...

As Cuba moves toward a post-Fidel Castro society, its churches are finding ways to "give a Christian witness with integrity" in a country...

If you watch or read the news, likely you’ve heard the story of the genderless baby....

When newspaper circulation in the U.S. peaked in the 1970s and '80s, large news outlets could afford to have specialists covering such...

I'll be giving Christianity and Con­temporary Politics to my graduate students and others seeking to become authors and academics....

It's useful to meet the argument that torture works with the facts: actually, there is not much evidence that it does. In the end, however, the question is not whether torture is ever useful but whether it is morally permissible.

The Spirit's power is the power to bear witness.

With William Willimon set to retire as bishop of the North Alabama Conference in 2012, it is appropriate to consider how the Willimon experiment in the episcopacy has turned out. It has not been business as usual.

Warsaw, Poland (ENInews)--A senior ecumenist has welcomed growing co-operation between leaders of European institutions and churches, and predicted a...

A few homiletical observations on Acts 1:6-14: Luke is always concerned about place. Now, oddly, when it comes to Jesus' ascension, he's not.

In a complex transaction designed to strengthen nonpartisan religion reporting, the newly nonprofit Religion News Service received a grant of almost $3.5 million from the Lilly Endowment and was ac...

London, May 27 (ENInews)--Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, today awarded the 2011 Michael Ramsey prize to "Atheist Delusions," by...

Nairobi, Kenya, 27May (ENInews) -- A film about Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge, an 84-year-old man who enrolled in primary school in 2003 so he could learn...

(RNS) The Crystal Cathedral has announced plans to sell its iconic glass-walled church in Southern California to pay back creditors and overcome bankruptcy....

Bishop Eddie Long, an Atlanta-area megachurch pastor, has settled suits out of court with four young men who accused him of sexual misconduct, his church has announced....

Last week in Stockholm, humanity was put on trial....

As I have been going through Romans once again with my Sunday school class, it has increasingly become evident to me how hard it is – and at...

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Bordeaux, France, May 25 (ENInews)--Leaders of Christian churches and other faiths called on the world's most powerful governments to devise more effective joint solutions to the "interconnected cr...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican has closed the monastery of a fourth-century Roman basilica on account of "liturgical and financial...