(RNS) — When an impoverished neighborhood’s biggest obstacle is its murder rate, no amount of food donations and micro-loans will alleviate suffering. Sociologist Kurt Ver Beek knows this firsthand. That’s why, when the struggling Honduran neighborhood of Nueva Suyapa was...
(RNS) — In Israel Sunday (Aug. 17), as many as 500,000 people took to the streets — the per capita equivalent of 34 million U.S. citizens protesting on the same day from Alaska to Puerto Rico. All across Israel —...
(RNS) — No country in the world has gone as far as Canada in enabling people to die if they want to. And a lot of Canadians want to. In 2023, the last year for which statistics are available, 15,343...
(RNS) — Abdullah Antepli, a globe-trotting interfaith champion and prominent Muslim leader, has been chosen as the new president of the Rothko Chapel, the Houston ecumenical sanctuary. Antepli, who has held a variety of positions at Duke University for the...
(RNS) — The Hindu holiday of Raksha Bandhan, which falls on Saturday (Aug. 9), has long followed a familiar custom: a sister ties a rakhi, or sacred thread, around her brother’s wrist to symbolize her love and prayers for his...
(RNS) — Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has urged the IRS to open an investigation into the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ nonprofit status over its alleged “deep ties to terrorist organizations.” In a letter addressed to IRS Commissioner Billy...
This week, host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush had the pleasure of interviewing Elizabeth Reiner Platt, the brilliant mind leading the Law, Rights, and Religion Project. They dive deep into her newly published report, Religious Liberty and Immigration: Legal...
(RNS) — In late April of 2015, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, senior pastor of Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, opened a “Requiem for Racism” program by praying: We know only love can conquer hate, that...
(RNS) — On the last day of this year’s U.S. Supreme Court term, the justices ruled that parents may withdraw their children from public school classes where LGBTQ+ issues are discussed in an inclusive way. The right of parents “to...
(RNS) — Last week, a federal judge issued an injunction barring the state of Washington from enforcing an amendment to the state’s mandatory reporting law that would have required Catholic priests to inform authorities of child‑abuse disclosures made during confession....
