CHICAGO (RNS) — The Chicago-area megachurch announced that the entire executive committee of its elders will resign over the next few months — one of several...
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(The Christian Chronicle) — A sermon about the depersonalizing effect of technology became a case in point.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (RNS) — 'We replaced Mugabe with another Mugabe,' said Pastor Evan Mawarire, who faces a 20-year prison sentence for his current protest...
LONDON — A face-off between Britain's papal nuncio and government panel on child sexual abuse is not the first time Vatican diplomats have clashed with their...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) — While blaming the abusers, SBC President J.D. Greear called on the convention as a whole 'to repent of a culture that has made abuse...
CHICAGO (RNS) — Vignarajah, who was policy director for former first lady Michelle Obama, is the second refugee and the first non-Lutheran to lead the...
(RNS) — A new report finds that about 35 percent of British people think that Islam is generally "a threat to the British way of life" in the wake of 2017...
NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — United Methodist bishops in Africa want to keep the denomination's ban of LGBT clergy in place. But they also want the United Methodist...
LONDON (RNS) — This spring, a half-century after the Vatican's first conference on unbelief, scholars will again gather in Rome to discuss research on the...
In the past, LDS missionaries were only allowed to call home twice a year, a policy designed to let them focus on their mission, free from distractions. But a...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while...
(RNS) — This week’s gallery includes Valentine's Day festivities, the first anniversary of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and...
New rules allow missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call weekly. Missionaries are also allowed to text and video chat once a...
DURHAM, N.C. (RNS) — Only larger, better-resourced Southern Baptist churches have policies in place to protect children from abuse.
PARIS (AP) — Equal parts investigative journalism and salacious gossip, Martel paints a picture of an institution almost at war with itself.