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(RNS) —  Clara Thethtet Tunwin had had enough. Tunwin, who emigrated with her family from Myanmar in the early 2000s,…

(RNS) — The Christian hearing community naturally emphasizes the spoken word, whether through singing worship or reading from the pulpit,…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A British judge on Tuesday (March 23) reversed a previous court decision that froze the assets…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Dante Alighieri, the medieval Italian poet, didn’t spare popes and other Catholic prelates in “Divine Comedy,”…

(RNS) — Joe Biden will soon be the first Catholic president to nominate an ambassador to the Holy See, something…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis’ efforts to build a “poor church for the poor” got a little closer to…

(RNS) — A new Vatican statement that has provoked widespread criticism for sharply rejecting the blessing of same-sex unions is…

(RNS) — As someone who lives alone in New York City, there have been moments in the past year when…

(RNS) — The U.S. Air Force will no longer use a firing range near a Buddhist monastery in Scotland, bowing…

(RNS) — A few years after becoming the first female vice president in Tanzanian history, Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn…

ROME (AP) — Three cardinals close to Pope Francis defended a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In his new book, “Church, Interrupted: Havoc & Hope: The Tender Revolt of Pope Francis,” papal…

(The Conversation) — As the days grow longer and the flowers start to bloom, my 5-year-old gets excited and exclaims,…

BRUSSELS (AP) — A Belgian bishop has lashed out at the Vatican over its decree that the Catholic Church won’t…

(RNS) — Since the Catholic Church forbids celebrating marriage between people of the same sex as a sacrament, some Catholics,…

(AP) — The Vatican’s declaration that same-sex unions are a sin the Roman Catholic Church cannot bless was no surprise…

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — In its traditional form, religious veils worn by Muslim women signify modesty and privacy. Fashions range…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican said on Monday LGBTQ couples cannot receive a blessing by a priest. Pope Francis…

(RNS) — The late Eugene Peterson, the pastor and theologian best known for his popular paraphrase of the Bible called…

(RNS) — A group of Chaldean women, sitting around a kitchen table in Michigan on Sunday (March 7), watched on…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (RNS) — Pentecostal pastor the Rev. Emmanuel Mayunga led hundreds of congregants in prayer recently in…

(RNS) — A controversial law passed Thursday (March 11) in the Canadian Parliament that has extended the right to physician-assisted…

(RNS) — A new report from the United Nations highlights growing Islamophobia and excessive surveillance of Muslims in countries around…

(RNS) — Soon after Donald Trump took office, Maya Zinshtein, an Israeli filmmaker, noticed the growing prominence of evangelicals, not…

(RNS) — Despite the naysayers who opposed the pope’s visit, Pope Francis’ pilgrimage to Iraq (March 5-8) went beyond expectations…

(The Conversation) — At the end of a small cemetery on the campus of the College of the Holy Cross,…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Countless pictures document the struggle: For decades, popes have suffered embarrassment and even frustration when their…

The logo of the King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue. Image via KAICIID (RNS) — KAICIID, a…

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss voters narrowly approved on Sunday a proposal to ban face coverings, both the niqabs and burqas…

SAO PAULO (Global Sisters Report) — Religious presence in the Amazon region in the past year has been a challenge.…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Aboard the papal flight back from Iraq, the first papal trip since the COVID-19 pandemic began,…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) – On his last full day in Iraq, Pope Francis told struggling Christians in the war-weary country…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) – Speaking on Saturday (March 6) before the monumental remains of Ur, the once great city where,…

(RNS) — On his final day in office, Trump and his administration declared China’s treatment of its Uyghur population a…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Standing in the Assyrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad where 50 worshippers, clergy and policemen were killed…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — If it’s true that all roads lead to Rome, it’s also true that in one way…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Pope Francis arrived in Iraq on Friday to urge the country’s dwindling number of Christians to stay…

(RNS) — Rosaleen Norton rose to infamy in the 1950s in Australia, after a series of lurid public scandals in…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A Catholic nun, kneeling before armed forces in Myanmar and begging them not to open fire…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis commended a Russian version of his 2020 encyclical promoting human fraternity, Fratelli Tutti, translated…