The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America, ending a century-old tradi…

(RNS) — Most American millennials don’t know what Auschwitz was, a survey finds. Despite the slaughter of nearly a million Jews — as well as h…

(RNS) — As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee begin hearings on whether to confirm Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, they will…

(RNS) — A group of religious leaders is condemning a Missouri bill to permit people to carry concealed firearms in church without permission f…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis admitted he made “grave errors” in judgment in Chile’s sex abuse scandal and invited the abuse victims he had…

(RNS) — A conservative Christian organization has asked video streaming giant Netflix to pull “13 Reasons Why,” a dramatic series that critics…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Mark Zuckerberg was grilled in Congress on Facebook’s data privacy scandal, few news outlets picked up on his referenc…

PAICINES, Calif. (RNS) — Sometimes a tomato isn’t just a salad ingredient. Sometimes it’s a call to action. That’s the revolutionary idea of a…

NEW YORK (RNS) — Wearing a colorful huipil, a traditional Guatemalan blouse, the 14-year-old girl stood before the packed church and uttered a…

The ’Splainer is an occasional Religion News Service feature. (RNS) — When news broke that an assailant had shot several people at YouTube’s S…

(AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania, on Friday (April 6) made public the names of 34 priests or other members of the clerg…

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department has agreed not to conduct surveillance based on religion or ethnicity and to listen to Muslims …

LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Stephen Han’s sermon has the cadence of a TED Talk. Wearing jeans and a loose button-up shirt, he paces energetically acro…

KIEV, Ukraine (RNS) — The Rev. Andriy Lototskiy faced perhaps the toughest decision in his life: He had to choose between his faith and his fl…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — They began marching just after dawn from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, 50 years to the day after the civil rights le…

ATLIXCO, Mexico (RNS) — For more than a century in the central Mexican city of Atlixco, Catholics have donned chains and impaled themselves wi…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — A faith-based education advocacy group is criticizing Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos for her recent comments regarding …

PARIS (RNS) — There are few places on earth more haunted by evil than the memorial sites at former Nazi concentration camps. Visitors who tour…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis presided over solemn Good Friday services amid heightened security at Rome’s Colosseum for the Via Crucis procession …

Religion News Service is marking the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with stories and commentaries lo…

(RNS) — As Conservative Judaism struggles with declining numbers and resources, two of its key leaders are stepping down. Rabbi Julie Schonfel…

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged inmates at a Rome prison on Thursday to never let their hopes be clouded like cataracts cloud the eyes — and re…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — Citing both moral imperatives and concerns about accuracy, religious groups are speaking out against a new citizenship ques…

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Experts on world anti-Semitism have long known that Arabic-language media outlets and social media are full of anti-Semitic …

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — A network of progressive churches in the United States, inspired by the success of the movie “Black Panther,” has joine…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A bishop in China’s underground Catholic Church has reportedly been detained, just as the Vatican has been laying the grou…

(RNS) — Frank Page, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top executive, is retiring as president and CEO of its executive committee following wha…

MUMBAI (RNS) — For decades, adherents of Lingayat Dharma, an 800-year-old tradition with some resemblance to Hinduism, have lobbied the Indian…

CHICAGO (RNS) — For Catholics, a talk about Jesus doesn’t seem controversial. And yet the Rev. James Martin, speaking on the topic at Holy Nam…

(RNS) — The senior pastor of one of the nation’s largest megachurches has been the subject of inquiries into allegations of inappropriate beha…

OKLAHOMA CITY (RNS) — Oklahoma lawmakers may soon sanction private adoption agencies turning away same-sex couples and other prospective paren…

(RNS) — A North Carolina pastor who has been jailed in Turkey will go on trial next month on charges he is a terrorist who used Christianity a…

The ’Splainer (as in “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in which the RNS staff gives you everything you need to know…

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram captivity after the extremists released 104 classmates sa…

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The part of tax law that prohibits houses of worship from engaging in explicit political activity will remain intact for no…

(RNS) — More than 4 in 5 Protestant pastors say their congregations are predominantly made up of one racial or ethnic group. That 81 percent f…

LONDON (RNS) — Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby told a national commission investigating child sex abuse that his church has not done eno…

(RNS) — The former head of the main Missionary Training Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has admitted to molesting at…

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Religious leaders who campaign for wildlife conservation are mourning the death of the world’s last male northern white…

WASHINGTON (USA Today) — A California law requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to inform clients about state-funded abortions ran into tr…

(RNS) — It happens a lot after famous nonbelievers die: People claim the nonbeliever had a deathbed conversion to Christianity. And it happene…

PULAU SUMBA, Indonesia (RNS) — On the island of Sumba, in central Indonesia, a ritual war game known as Pasola is celebrated annually between …

(RNS) — Guam Archbishop Anthony Apuron, who was accused of sexually abusing young men, has been found guilty of some of the charges against hi…

(RNS) — One of the two Bibles Donald Trump used to take the oath of office is joining others used by American presidents at the Museum of the …

(RNS) — Of course an actor like Hugh Bonneville would be captivated by the drama of the last week of Jesus’ life, with his triumphant entrance…

RALEIGH, N.C. (RNS) — John Pavlovitz is feeling spiritually nauseated these days. It’s a feeling many of his readers and followers — liberal C…

CLARENCE, Ill. (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy and purported ringleader in the bombing of a Minnesota mosque emerges in court documents as a …

(RNS) — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy condemned the Trump administration’s border wall effort this week, calling it “ineffective” and “grote…

CHICAGO (AP) — Why three men allegedly chose to travel some 500 miles (805 kilometers) from a rural farming community of less the 100 resident…

(RNS) — Say the words “British,” “scientist” and “atheist” and the first person to come to mind probably isn’t Stephen Hawking. But while Hawk…