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Christian film producers plan movie about Thai cave rescue
By Yonat Shimron — July 11, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — The producers behind Christian films like 'God's Not Dead' are already in Thailand with plans to develop a movie about the 18-day saga of the soccer team trapped in a flooded cave.
Black churches host screenings of ‘Black Panther’
By Adelle M. Banks — March 1, 2018
(RNS) — Across the country, congregants have bought out theaters for screenings and dressed in their favorite African attire to see a superhero who looks like them.
African cosmologies: spiritual reflections on the ‘Black Panther’ movie
By Yolanda Pierce — February 19, 2018
(RNS) — Within most African religious worldviews, everything is a part of the spiritual world and so physical combat or clothing or body modification are all infused with sacred resonance. (Commentary)
Kristin Chenoweth draws on her faith to give voice to a mouse in ‘The Star’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 4, 2017
(RNS) — The actress gives voice to Abby, a creature not mentioned in Scripture but who is charged to convey the excitement of the news of the birth of Christ.
‘I’ll Push You’: Friends, one in a wheelchair, document their Spanish pilgrimage
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 1, 2017
(RNS) — When Justin Skeesuck felt called to travel the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, a popular Christian pilgrimage through mountains, forests and fields in northern Spain, his lifelong friend Patrick Gray's response was immediate: 'I'll push you.' That's because Skeesuck uses a wheelchair.
David Lowery on ‘A Ghost Story,’ the afterlife and other spooky questions
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 2, 2017
CHICAGO (RNS) — When ghosts are invoked, questions about the meaning of life and what happens after we die take viewers into the realm of religion and spirituality.
CBN television chief on Christians, Israel and Trump
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 23, 2017
(RNS) In the wake of President Trump's visit to Israel, and as Israelis celebrate the 50th anniversary of the "reunification" of Jerusalem, CBN releases a documentary on the battle for the holy city.
High art meets high-tech in Vatican 3D film about Raphael
By Josephine McKenna — March 22, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The work of the Renaissance master Raphael, which fills the Sistine Chapel and pope’s palace, is for the first time celebrated on screen in a 3D film co-produced by the Vatican Museums.
Kenyan bus ambush in which Muslims shielded Christians is now a movie
By Yonat Shimron — March 17, 2017
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) “Watu Wote,” Swahili for “All of Us,” is based on the militant ambush of a Mandera bus in December 2015.
Controversial book ‘The Shack’ makes the leap from page to screen
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 3, 2017
(RNS) The author, producer and actors behind 'The Shack' talk about the book's decadelong journey to the screen – and controversy over its depiction of the Trinity.
Steven Spielberg movie to examine notorious Catholic kidnapping of Jewish boy
By Josephine McKenna — February 23, 2017
BOLOGNA, Italy (RNS) The film is certain to cast fresh light on this real-life drama about a 6-year-old forced from his family and raised as a Catholic with the blessing of Pope Pius IX. The child grew up to become a priest.
Author Lee Strobel on ‘The Case for Christ,’ now a movie
By Emily McFarlan Miller — February 4, 2017
(RNS) The journalist-turned-pastor talks to RNS about the life-changing investigation that launched a series of books and now a film.
Why the new ‘Star Wars’ movie could use some moral clarity
By Charles C. Camosy — December 16, 2016
(RNS) Some actions require the very simple judgments of “light side = good” and “dark side = bad” of George Lucas’ original trilogy.
Martin Scorsese meets pope as film on Jesuits screens in Rome
By RNS staff — November 30, 2016
(Reuters) For Scorsese, the meeting came almost thirty years after his film 'The Last Temptation of Christ' outraged many conservative Christians.
Mel Gibson’s ‘Hacksaw Ridge’ puts Seventh-day Adventists in spotlight
By RNS staff — November 8, 2016
NASHVILLE — Hacksaw Ridge tells the extraordinary true story of the late Desmond Doss, a Seventh-day Adventist who refused to carry a weapon due to religious beliefs while serving as a combat medic.
