RNS | Covering the world of religion.

Faiths

Christianity

Catholics

Protestants

Black Protestants

Evangelicals

Mainline Protestants

Latter Day Saints

Orthodox Christians

Judaism

Islam

Hinduism

Buddhism

Sikhism

Atheism & Agnosticism

Unaffiliated & Nones

Alternative Faiths

More Faiths

More stories on Faiths

Podcasts

	Martini Judaism Is it time to retire the term ‘Zionism’? Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	The State of Belief Faith and FIFA: Religion at the World Cup Paul Brandeis Raushenbush Religion News Service journalists Jack Jenkins and Mehditha Anis on the World Cup, Religion, and Politics
	Complexified Philip Reed-Butler, Black AI and the future of healing Rev. Amanda Henderson (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

	Saved by the City Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	Complexified (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

Kerri J. Malloy

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

(The Conversation) — The Pentagon recategorized Native religions as ‘other.’ A scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies explains the implications of that change.

Jeffrey Salkin

The intellectual roots of feminism’s antisemitism

(RNS) — I don't know that feminism is a word Jewish women still fully own, but I know it’s worth fighting to keep.

Jeffrey von Arx

US sanctions are harming the Cuban Catholic Church, the island’s hope

(RNS) — If the United States truly seeks a more hopeful future for Cuba, it should pursue policies that strengthen Cuban civil society — including the Catholic Church — rather than causing suffering.

UK says an Iran-backed group was behind attacks on Jewish community and bans Revolutionary Guard

Jill Lawless

LONDON (AP) — The government said it is banning the group behind the attacks, the Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right, or IMCR, also known as Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamia.

Iran persecutes its Baha’i minority fiercely in a year of protests and war, rights groups say

Fatma Khaled

(AP) — This year, amid massive anti-government protests and war with the United States and Israel, the Islamic Republic has mounted a fierce crackdown on the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, human rights groups say.

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

Kerri J. Malloy

(The Conversation) — The Pentagon recategorized Native religions as ‘other.’ A scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies explains the implications of that change.

Made possible by Lilly Endowment, Inc.

1	news The Bible verses dividing Washington: How Matthew 25 became a political litmus test
2	opinion The July 4 white supremacist march exposes an uncomfortable truth about our country
3	news Inside a Christian mother's fight against ICE activity in Chicago
4	news PCUSA, American Academy of Religion call Gaza war a genocide
5	news The conservative Christian women turning moral urgency into political power

‘It really did take me back to after 9/11’: How Islamophobia roiled a Texas election

"Out of the shadows": A Hispanic evangelical pastor's case for immigration reform

The Latina women in Texas reshaping the UMC