Hispanics

Suspended UMC Latina bishop found not guilty on all charges

By Yonat Shimron — September 22, 2023
(RNS) — Bishop Minerva G. Carcaño, a leader of the California-Nevada Conference, or region, of the United Methodist Church, will return to her role after an 18-month suspension.

Can a controversial Latin American theology speak to Catholics today?

By Yonat Shimron — February 10, 2017
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. (RNS) By distancing the movement from radical left agendas of the past, theologians today are carving room for new applications of liberationist thought.

How Hispanics helped put Trump in the White House

By guest — November 22, 2016
(RNS) Politicians must respect Hispanics' wide-ranging differences and speak to each community with distinction. Anything less is ignorance, and it might even be racism.

What do Jews do now?

By Jeffrey Salkin — November 9, 2016
American Jews have no GPS for this moment in history. Here is how we begin.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric can be deadly (COMMENTARY)

By David P. Gushee — October 9, 2015
(RNS) When one group of people in a country is taught to look at another group as inferior, immoral, and dangerous, the latter group will eventually pay a huge price.

More U.S. Latinos shift and drift outside the Catholic Church

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — May 7, 2014
(RNS) Choice and change reshape Hispanics' view of Catholicism, Protestant faiths and no faith at all.

Hispanics increasingly identify as ‘nones’

By Kimberly Winston — October 17, 2013
(RNS) Researchers say those with no religious affiliation are now statistically equal to evangelical Protestants as a share of U.S. Hispanics and warn of a religious divide in the Hispanic community that will be felt for decades to come.

COMMENTARY: The hidden immigration impact on American churches

By Wesley Granberg-Michaelson — September 23, 2013
(RNS) While millennials are walking out the front door of U.S. congregations, immigrant Christian communities are appearing right around the corner, and sometimes knocking at the back door. And they may hold the key to vitality for American Christianity.

God is alive and well in America, says Gallup chief

By Daniel Burke — January 7, 2013
(RNS) Grounded in more than a million interviews, Gallup Editor-in-Chief Frank Newport's new book argues that religion is a vital force in America, and will remain so for many years. By Daniel Burke.
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