WASHINGTON (RNS) — It’s been 30 years since Jorge Garcia last joined the millions of people who have crowded the streets of Barquisimeto in northwest Venezuela for a procession with La Divina Pastora or “the Divine Shepherdess.” But three decades...
(RNS) — Composer Nolan Williams Jr. has long combined faith, culture and the arts in his productions on stage and screen, often centering on African American life. Now, he has created the “Just Like Selma” project to focus on the...
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — About midway through her sermon at Calvary Lutheran Church on Sunday (Jan. 11), the Rev. Babette Chatman pivoted to a discussion of empire. The Israelites resisted the Egyptians, she said, which Chatman labeled as a kind of...
MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — Earlier this week, the intersection of 34th Street and Portland Avenue was a chaotic scene of violence and tears. A mangled maroon Honda Pilot sat crushed against a telephone pole as its driver, Renee Good, lay dying...
(RNS) — In his first appearance in a New York courtroom on Monday (Jan. 5), ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro reportedly uttered the words “In the name of God, you will see that I will be free” and “I am...
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) — In early 2025, when Paul Taylor left the Palo Alto church he’d pastored for 18 years to focus on nonprofit work, he didn’t know where it would lead. Certainly, Taylor didn’t anticipate that, in September, he...
(RNS) — If 2025 felt like a particularly chaotic year for religion news, just wait until 2026. Some of the coming cacophony will be an extension of trends that emerged this year: the first full year of Leo’s papacy, the...
(RNS) — When I heard on Christmas Eve that Jeffrey R. Holland, 85, a beloved apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was back in the hospital, it was not a total surprise. In April 2023, we...
(RNS) — Since the Dec. 14 attack that killed 15 people at a Chabad Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been criticized for what was considered his weak approach to antisemitic incidents in the...
(RNS) — At the 2016 Al Smith Dinner, an annual fundraiser for the Archdiocese of New York that traditionally invites the presidential candidates in national election years, Cardinal Dolan sat between then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and GOP nominee Donald Trump....
