Bob Mims ("The Salt Lake Tribune," January 18, 2018) A petition campaign demanding a halt to the LDS Church’s practice of closed-door, one-on-one interviews by bishops with children — sometim...
Jack Jenkins ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Washington — In 2017, Kristen Day was one of relatively few women to attend both the record-breaking Women’s March, whose organizers voiced strong suppo...
("World Watch Monitor," January 11, 2018) A Chinese priest has been missing from his home town in China’s eastern Zhejiang province since government officials took him away just after Christmas...
Richard Flory ("RNS," January 10, 2018) The popular view of California is of a liberal, godless region, a land of possibilities that is open to experimentation in all things. As novelist Wallace ...
Roxanne Stone ("RNS," January 10, 2018) America is currently experiencing a reckoning in terms of gender violence and harassment. Countless women have begun speaking out about the abuse they’ve...
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra ("Christianity Today," January 10, 2018) For decades, North Korea has clearly been the world’s worst persecutor of Christians. But now, another nation nearly matches it. O...
("Telesur," January 8, 2018) Pope Francis is the second head of Catholicism to begin a declassification process of Vatican documents. Pope Francis ratified Monday his intention of declassifying V...
Yonat Shimron ("RNS," January 10, 2018) Call it the WikiLeaks of the religion world. A new website called FaithLeaks aims to bring transparency to the workings of religious congregations and deno...
("Al Jazeera," January 11, 2018) Amnesty International has reiterated a call for an independent investigation into rights abuses in Myanmar's Rakhine state after the country's army admitted its s...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 11, 2018) The suspension of a popular evangelical university chaplain has highlighted tensions over same-sex marriage in a growing Protestant denomination that for...
Sandra Jolley and Kristina Arriaga ("RNS," January 11, 2018) For most pastors, the beginning of a new year is filled with the promise of youth programs, baptisms, and marriages. Instead, Pastor A...
Rick Noack ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) It was supposed to be an apology tour, but the pope’s Chile visit drew unexpected ire Thursday after the head of the Catholic Church came to...
Yonat Shimron ("RNS," January 18, 2018) To hear it from the Trump administration, Muslim extremists pose the greatest risk to Americans today. Shortly after a judge blocked his ban on travelers f...
Emma Green ("The Atlantic," January 18, 2018) The first time Ashley McGuire had a baby, she and her husband had to wait 20 weeks to learn its sex. By her third, they found out at 10 weeks with a ...
Emma Featherston ("The Guardian," January 18, 2018) Harmony Nice is a 20-year old vlogger from Norwich. While she covers beauty on her YouTube channel, and her goth-inspired look is a hit on Inst...
Newsweek ("Cristina Maza," January 18, 2018) Five American Muslims filed a lawsuit against FBI Director Christopher Wray and other members of the government because they believe they were put on ...
Jacob Lupfer ("RNS," January 18, 2018) On Friday (Jan. 19), nearly 45 years after the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, hundreds of thousands will rally in the streets of Washington. The annual Marc...
Erick Erickson ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) The vulgarity President Trump reportedly used last week to describe certain countries in the developing world has gotten a lot of attentio...
Sarah Pulliam Bailey ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) The Trump administration has announced new regulations and a new division responsible for handling complaints from health-care worke...
Monique Parsons ("Religion & Politics," January 17, 2018) It was June 12, 2016, and a man named Omar Mateen had just opened fire inside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, killing 49 people ...
Julian Morgans ("Vice," January 18, 2018) The man in the photo above is an artist named Luke Roberts. He’s standing beneath a piece of public artwork he built for the Brisbane City Council, whi...
Michele Chabin ("RNS," January 18, 2018) Jerusalem – Inspired by sanctuary movements throughout history, a prominent rabbi in Israel has asked her peers to provide a safe haven for nearly 40,00...
Nicole Winfield & Christine Armario ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Puerto Maldonado, Peru — Pope Francis traveled deep into the Amazon rainforest demanding an end to the relentless exploitation of i...
Julie Zauzmer ("The Washington Post," January 19, 2018) Atlanta — As he hands each person the Communion wafer, the priest watches his congregants walk back to their seats. They drop to their kn...
("The Guardian," January 19, 2018) The room is filled with the cries of 30 or more babies. Steven Olusola visits each cradle, peering into their eyes in search of illness. “They fall sick often...
("The Japan Times," January 19, 2018) The trials related to Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that executed the deadly sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, are close to ending after th...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Christian evangelist Luis Palau, who has preached across the globe for five decades, says he has late-stage lung cancer. “Everything is ready and if th...
Adelle M. Banks ("RNS," January 19, 2018) Washington — Author Stephen Mansfield, who has written about the faith of former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says the current occupant ...
Niall Murray ("Irish Examiner," January 19, 2018) Future primary teachers are only taking on the role of religion teaching to get into jobs despite a lack of significant enthusiasm, new research ...
Nicole Winfield (AP, January 11, 2018) Vatican City — Pope Francis will meet with two victims of Chile’s military dictatorship during his upcoming trip, and isn’t ruling out a private encou...