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LONDON (RNS) Researchers at two of Britain's top universities claim that church attendance in many Western nations is falling because people are...

While on retreat recently, I picked up Patrick Leigh Fermor's A Time to Keep Silence. I was making my own transition from noisy life and noisy mind to four days of...

Dramatic adaptations of Char­lotte Brontë's Jane Eyre tend to go for romantic embroidery and Gothic grandilo­quence. But the new movie version feels pared down in all respects except the emotional. It has a piercing ferocity.

If we're following Jesus, we can't spend our lives in Galilee. We can't hide behind the popular myth that religion and politics don't mix.

Former and possible future presidential candidate Mike Huckabee went on Comedy Central's Daily Show to defend his praise for David Barton, a leading advocate for the view that America was ...

I spent last night curled around my toddler, bowl in hand, waiting for her to wake and vomit again. She had a miserable case of food poisoning that kept us both in and out of sleep until the morning. I was thinking about relaying this episode to a seminary friend who recently asked me to “sell” him on the idea of children.

In 2009, Sen. Mark Kirk (R--Ill.), then a congressman, voted for a bill that would have regulated greenhouse gases--a bill that died in the Senate. Kirk later did an about-face on global warming. In January he explained that "the consensus behind the climate change bill collapsed and then further deteriorated with the personal and political collapse of Vice President Gore."

India is a country predicted to pass China in economic growth, even as 80 percent of its more than 1 billion people live in persistent and extreme poverty with incomes of less than $2 a day....

“For decades there has been a premium on language as subject,” says poet Christian Wiman. But recently poets are “trying to find some way of speaking of ‘ultimate things’ with some sort of credibility.”

Rome, April 12 (ENInews)--The late Pope John Paul II's feast day, or day of commemoration, will be October 22, the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship...

WASHINGTON (RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops announced Monday (April 11) that sexual abuse accusations against Catholic clergy increased in 2010, and...

(RNS) Is the Bible good for your sex life, but bad for a sex ed class? A Boston biblical scholar challenges widely held beliefs about the...

PARIS (RNS) Police arrested several veiled Muslim women Monday (April 11) and protests continued to spread as France's controversial ban...

(RNS) On the eve of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, a long-lost letter has surfaced that describes President Abraham Lincoln's belief in God. ...

LONDON (RNS) Couples suspected of using their wedding vows as a ruse to skirt immigration laws will be required to meet strict identity checks...

The hope of Easter sunrise is found at the tomb amid the darkness and disbelief.

Maybe there is nothing to sing about, on this day when ...

Today is the 150th anniversary of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter, which began the U.S. Civil War. In a...

Nairobi, Kenya, April 7 (ENInews)--Muslim leaders in Kenya are calling for government action on Christian schools that have banned students from wearing hijab, the head covering traditionally worn ...

ALLEY FORGE, Pa. (ABP) – Three weeks after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and massive tsunami hit northeast Japan, transportation had opened up...