If one city could be said to be the home of Yiddish, many would point to Vilnius, the capital of modern-day Lithuania, where a program hopes to preserve and expand it. religionnews.com/2024/08/28/onc…

OPINION: Too many people, when they grow older, give up on the God they learned about as children. What they really need to do is think about God in a more mature way. religionnews.com/2024/09/03/you…

The 87-year-old pope is visiting a record number of countries in the longest trip of his pontificate. religionnews.com/2024/08/30/pop…

Shawn Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, read from the Bible at the UAW’s stand-up strike, quoting, “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.” religionnews.com/2024/09/01/the…

OPINION: The Catholic Church, with its focus on the person as a whole, including the spiritual self, is perhaps uniquely positioned to push medicine back in the generalist direction. religionnews.com/2024/09/05/can…

Amid a government shake-up and rising violence against minorities, an interfaith council is pushing for the country to remove Islam as the state religion. religionnews.com/2024/08/29/ban…

When the CCLI charts of top worship songs debuted in 1988, 81% were written by one writer. Now almost every song is co-written. religionnews.com/2024/09/04/wan…

Beyond the religiously unaffiliated, which represent slightly less than 2 in 10 residents, the largest religious group in the county was Black Protestants, who make up 10% of the population. religionnews.com/2024/08/30/mon…

OPINION: As a Catholic sister, I am impelled to take an interest in how policies enacted by our government do or do not reflect my values. So when Project 2025 first came to my attention, I was naturally curious. religionnews.com/2024/08/30/im-…

The tombs were likely the burial place for aristocratic Romans some 1,700 years ago, according to archaeologists. religionnews.com/2024/08/30/anc…

As book bans and religious censorship become increasingly prevalent, America is witnessing an alarming repetition of patterns from our history, according to "The State of Belief" guest Brenda Wineapple. religionnews.com/2024/08/31/the…

Tens of thousands of Bedouins eke out an existence in villages that the Israeli authorities don’t recognize. The villages are largely cut off from basic services and the government wants to tear them down. religionnews.com/2024/09/03/wha…

OPINION: In Jerusalem, you cannot walk more than a few feet without encountering a poster of the hostages. The most prominent among them, it often seemed, was Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23-year-old American citizen. religionnews.com/2024/09/02/hos…

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As the annual session of the National Baptist Convention, USA, opened on Tuesday, the biggest question that loomed was how the meeting would end: Will the NBCUSA have a new president or not? religionnews.com/2024/09/03/nat…

OPINION: “The Rings of Power” wisely retains Tolkien’s stark morality and firm lines between good and evil. But the showrunners get creative in where they place their characters along that spectrum. religionnews.com/2024/08/29/sea…

National Baptists choose Connecticut pastor Boise Kimber as the next NBCUSA president. religionnews.com/2024/09/06/nat…

OPINION: Like white Christian nationalists in 2024, the 1966 Black Christian activists asserted that their faith had something to say on matters of racial identity and power politics. religionnews.com/2024/09/06/bla…

Pope Francis urged Indonesia to live up to its promise of “harmony in diversity” and fight religious intolerance on Wednesday. religionnews.com/2024/09/06/the…

“The field of physics and the field of theology are two parallel planes that never touch,” said the Rev. Gabriele Gionti, the vice president of the Vatican Observatory. religionnews.com/2024/09/06/phy…