Full-time ministry drains too many clergy and church budgets. Part-time pastors can help.
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
(RNS) — The happier, healthier future of ministry is in part-time clergy.
Alabama’s IVF protection law redefines embryonic personhood
By Mark Silk
(RNS) — A process that is taking place across the country.
All eyes on Rafah as Ramadan gets underway
By Omar Suleiman
(RNS) — Muslims have navigated war, famine and death in Ramadan, but we’ve never watched a genocide in real time.
A Wisconsin ruling on Catholic Charities raises the bar for religious tax exemptions
By Todd Richmond
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. religious institutions enjoy tax exemptions, most notably from property taxes. Debate has raged for decades over whether the exemptions are fair.
Zimbabwe police rescue 251 children used as labor and find graves in religious sect compound raid
By Farai Mutsaka
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Apostolic groups that infuse traditional beliefs into a Pentecostal doctrine are popular in the deeply religious southern African country.
Indigenous people rejoice after city of Berkeley votes to return sacred Native land to Ohlone
By Janie Har and Olga R. Rodriguez
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before Spanish colonizers arrived in the region, the area held a village and a massive shellmound with a height of 20 feet and the length and width of a football field that was a ceremonial and burial site.
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