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Jack Jenkins is a national reporter for RNS based in Washington, covering U.S. Catholics and the intersection of religion and politics.
(RNS) — As artificial intelligence begins to influence our everyday lives, Catholic thinkers grapple with the moral questions posed by the rise of the machines.
Muslims are giving their zakat to incarcerated brothers and sisters in faith. Pope Francis bemoans the violence in Gaza where Israeli soldiers shot and killed 59 Palestinians. A primer on this week’s Christian and Jewish holidays.
(RNS) — Tony Perkins, leader of the Christian lobbying group Family Research Council, has been appointed to a U.S. government commission dedicated to ‘defending the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad.’
Author discusses challenges of navigating white Christian spaces as a black woman. Missionaries prepare for reunification of North Korea and South Korea. China’s crackdown on religion leaves Vatican deal in limbo.
(RNS) — One expert in student journalism said the survey indicates that the control exerted over Christian college newspapers seems more like that at a high school than at other private colleges.
Trump to sign new faith-related executive order. Baylor University ranks top preachers. Pope Francis apologizes to abuse victims.
(RNS) — Liberty University’s president questioned whether its rival for largest Christian university meets Liberty’s definition of a Christian school, and then suggested — that by different measures — both schools could lay claim to the title.
(RNS) — President Jerry Falwell boosted enrollments by courting online students. But other religious schools are also embracing the practice.
Americans have complicated beliefs about God. Trump may have won his battle to save the travel ban at the Supreme Court. Jehovah’s Witnesses wrangle with allegations of child sex abuse.
(RNS) — His conservative Christian faith undergirds his beliefs, which many say are anti-gay and anti-Muslim.
(RNS) — Evangelicals reexamine a moniker. Pompeo’s church wishes him well. Liberal faith communities wrestle with allegations of racism.
(RNS) — The bill would ‘broaden second Amendment rights at the expense of the First Amendment right of religious liberty,’ said St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson.
The tech industry takes on ethics. Counting anti-Islam comments by lawmakers. American Atheists place president on leave.
(RNS) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress put a spotlight on a major shift within the American tech sector: a rapid, albeit uneven, embrace of ethics.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (RNS) — For the few hundred who came to Lynchburg to assert a different kind of evangelical activism, the gathering offered hope.