This week, we dive into the Israel-Palestine crisis, reflecting on the struggles and the urgent call for peace. Recorded just before Rosh Hashanah and the one-year mark of the October 7th attacks, the conversation focuses on the need for moral...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Marking 1,000 days since the start of the bloody war in Ukraine, with hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians dead and millions displaced, the Vatican on Wednesday (Nov. 20) welcomed Olena Zelenska, wife of Ukrainian...
AMMAN, Jordan (RNS) — A group of Israeli Jews said Sabbath prayers on a late October Friday as the sun set in Al-Makhrour, a valley outside of Beit Jala in the West Bank. Nearby, Palestinian Muslims faced Mecca and said...
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The No. 2 officer at the Vatican said that the Holy See is hopeful about working with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to address peacekeeping options as wars escalate in Europe and beyond. Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s comments...
CHICAGO — The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) was deeply honored to welcome Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton for her inaugural visit to campus. During her time at LSTC, Bishop Eaton met with...
(RNS) — As they mount their pulpits this weekend (Nov. 8-10), clergy of several faiths said that they expect emotions to be swirling still from President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Often facing a constellation of feelings...
(The Conversation) — Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an...
State of Belief host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with faith leaders, activists and organizers along the Vote Is Sacred Bus Tour from Interfaith Alliance . . . To view this story, you must be logged in and a current...
FORT WORTH, Texas (RNS) — A group of Texas nuns engaged in a yearlong dispute with Catholic Church leadership has been dismissed from religious life and “reverted to the lay state,” according to their Vatican-appointed overseer. Mother Marie of the...
(The Conversation) — In connection to Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, media from the BBC and Fox to Reuters and Haaretz reported on new DNA evidence about the holiday’s original namesake. According to research revealed in a recent Spanish...
