As of this week, three US states have codified Diwali as a state holiday, offering a framework for excused absences or paid leave for students and employees who wish to celebrate.
“Cameroon is a powder keg,” summarizes Nkem Khumbah, Cameroon-born director of science, technology and innovation at the ...
As biblical references to immigrants become political slogans, Ruth's story shows how keeping the humanity of immigrants in ...
Displaced Palestinians with their belongings pass destroyed buildings as they return to their homes in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 10, 2025, after Israel and Hamas agreed to ...
Three recent New York Times articles on organ donation point to the insufficiency of our current definitions of death.
(RNS) — To honor Elie Wiesel is not merely to remember what he suffered. It is to take up what he required of others — to see, to speak, to resist. (RNS) — I might have to restart my stamp collection.
Badinter, who died last year at age 95, spearheaded the drive to abolish France’s death penalty and campaigned against antisemitism and Holocaust denial. It was also under Badinter’s watch that France ...
Whatever life I have left, I want to maximize at the highest possible level for God’s kingdom and for eternity,’ Evans said in an interview with RNS.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a pause in their war and the release of the remaining 48 hostages, around 20 of them believed to be alive, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
More than 1,400 evangelical Christians gathered this week in Jerusalem to show their support for Israel on the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, a joyous festival marking the fall harvest and commemorating ...
In the mid-1970s, a group of high schoolers and their former youth pastor started a church in a movie theater and named it Willow Creek. American religion hasn’t been the same since. The church ...
Religion News Service (RNS) and Interfaith America (IA) are pleased to announce that four journalists have been accepted to the 2025-2026 RNS/IA Religion ...