Adelle M. Banks
Adelle M. Banks, production editor and a national reporter, joined RNS in 1995. An award-winning journalist, she previously was the religion reporter at the Orlando Sentinel and a reporter at The Providence Journal and newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Syracuse and Binghamton.
All Stories by Adelle M. Banks
India withholds visas from US religious freedom monitors
By Adelle M. Banks — March 3, 2016
(RNS) Robert P. George, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, said that “a pluralistic, non-sectarian, and democratic state" such as India should have allowed the visit.
Wheaton prof gets new post named for Muslim leader
By Adelle M. Banks — March 3, 2016
(RNS) She will join the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.
Methodist minister celebrated as first black senator
By Adelle M. Banks — February 26, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Sen. Hiram Revels, who led African Methodist Episcopal and Methodist churches, was installed in the Senate on Feb. 25, 1870 during the height of the Reconstruction era.
Minister accepts congressional medal for civil rights marchers
By Adelle M. Banks — February 25, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) The Rev. Frederick D. Reese said God enabled the civil rights leaders to endure beatings as they worked for passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Southern Baptist foreign missionaries drop by nearly 1,000
By Adelle M. Banks — February 24, 2016
(RNS) The numbers -- strikingly higher than officials expected or needed -- mean the mission board will be in improved financial health, said International Mission Board President David Platt.
Criminal justice project a step of faith for lawyer, Ugandan youth
By Adelle M. Banks — February 24, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) A Pepperdine legal expert helps exonerate a Ugandan man falsely accused of murder. Now a book and a documentary film tell their story.
Global hymn singfest to focus on Christian persecution
By Adelle M. Banks — February 19, 2016
(RNS) Thousands of churches in dozens of countries have registered to sing “Facing a Task Unfinished,” revamped by contemporary hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty.
‘Nasty Girl’-turned-evangelist Denise Matthews dead at 57
By Adelle M. Banks — February 16, 2016
(RNS) “I don’t listen to my old music of Vanity’s,” she told Rolling Stone last year. “I sing to Jesus for Jesus now.”
South Carolina bill worries immigration advocates
By Adelle M. Banks — February 11, 2016
(RNS) The current language includes a provision calling for “civil liability for voluntary resettlement organizations arising from the actions of a refugee placed in this state."
Episcopal church leader calls Anglican censure ‘fair’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 8, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) Curry said the January primates’ meeting allowed both parties to express their differences and yet find a way to still remain together.
Joel Osteen: Magazine declares him ‘success’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 4, 2016
(RNS) “It’s got to look good, and you’ve got to be precise,” Osteen tells "Success" magazine of his productions.
Obama at prayer breakfast: ‘Jesus is a good cure for fear’
By Adelle M. Banks — February 4, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) The president’s speech to several thousand mostly evangelical listeners came a day after he spoke at a Baltimore mosque.
AME Church founder honored with postage stamp
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2016
(RNS) The U.S. Postal Service called Richard Allen “an inspiring figure whose life and work resonate profoundly in American history.”
5 faith facts about Ben Carson: Retired neurosurgeon, Seventh-day Adventist
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2016
(RNS) Ben Carson withdrew from the 2016 GOP race on March 4, in the wake of losses on Super Tuesday
Rachel Held Evans, others nominated to advise President Obama
By Adelle M. Banks — February 1, 2016
(RNS) She joins ministers from the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church nominated to a White House advisory council.
