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On Israeli posters, Paddington Bear gets kosher for Passover
By Emily McFarlan Miller — March 22, 2018
JERUSALEM (AP) — On some posters advertising the new film, 'Paddington 2,' the British movie creation is being given a kosher-for-Passover makeover.
Interfaith film misses Oscar, but raises hope in Africa
By Lauren Markoe — March 5, 2018
(RNS) — It spreads a message that many Africans say is too rarely heard: that people from different religious groups on the continent can be each other's heroes.
Billy Graham: evangelical media pioneer
By Ted Parks — February 23, 2018
(RNS) — Billy Graham's sometimes daring innovations were guided by the simple motivation to remain faithful to a divine message and proclaim it in the most effective way possible.
Thin crowds greet Bollywood film after rumors set off anger
By Muneeza Naqvi — January 26, 2018
NEW DELHI (AP) — The film is based on a 16th-century epic Sufi poem, 'Padmavat,' in which a brave and beautiful Rajput queen chose to immolate herself in a ceremonial fire rather than be captured by the Muslim sultan of Delhi, Allaudin Khilji.
The nones — and nuns — are all right in Greta Gerwig’s ‘Lady Bird’
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 5, 2018
(RNS) — 'I felt, as a moviegoer, kind of making fun of Catholic school has been covered,' Gerwig told RNS.
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.
Cue the religion scholar! Representing faith on the big and small screen
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 1, 2017
(RNS) — Try boiling down 400 years of religious history into a few seconds.
‘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.
Is ‘The Little Hours’ a big deal for Catholics?
By Madeleine Buckley — June 30, 2017
(RNS) Despite calls for its cancellation, critiques of Jeff Baena’s new film may be doing it more good than harm.
The gospel according to Wonder Woman?
By Yonat Shimron — June 11, 2017
(RNS) In the latest action movie, we have a skillfully wrought story about a powerful woman, a divine force in the world and all of the other women who helped fashion her.
At Cannes, Wim Wenders talks about making movies that matter
By A.J. Goldmann — June 1, 2017
CANNES, France (RNS) 'It’s not so much the story, but something more essential, which is: Why are we here and what are we living for?' said Wim Wenders at a forum on religion and art. 'Every movie has to respond to that.'
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.
‘Faithkeepers’ film is a not-so-subtle attack on Islam
By James Zogby — May 18, 2017
(RNS) The film mixes real stories of Christians and others who have suffered at the hands of ISIS with the insidious insinuation that such persecution is at the heart of the Muslim faith, writes James Zogby.
Hollywood composer writes Mass for his mother
By Kimberly Winston — May 11, 2017
(RNS) A new documentary shows how Stephen Edwards wanted to honor his mother, who died in 2006, and ended up finding a way out of his grief, too.