New Year
The key to keeping those New Year’s resolutions? Make it about somebody else.
By Yonat Shimron — January 4, 2024
(RNS) — Experts say a core spiritual practice — even if it's only a few minutes a day — and a commitment to working with others are key to keeping resolutions.
Stay alive in the meantime: Notes at the top of 2022
By Danté Stewart — January 13, 2022
(RNS) — To be completely honest, I thought this year would begin not with questions but with resolutions.
Vatican novelty to start New Year as pope urges adoption
By Nicole Winfield — January 5, 2022
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis called Wednesday for simplified adoption procedures and urged couples to have more children as he presided over his first general audience of the New Year with a novel supporting cast that emphasized his call for a less-clericalized Catholic Church. For the first time, a layman and a nun provided the […]
Pope on new year: Pandemic is hard, but focus on the good
By Frances D'emilio — January 3, 2022
VATICAN CITY (AP) — In his New Year’s wishes to the world, Pope Francis encouraged people Saturday to focus on the good which unites them and decried violence against women while acknowledging that the coronavirus pandemic has left many scared and struggling amid economic inequality. “We are still living in uncertain and difficult times due […]
For New Year’s resolutions, better health ranks higher than God, family or money
By Bob Smietana — December 28, 2021
(RNS) — About a quarter of Americans say they want to work on their finances and relationship with God, according to a new Lifeway Research survey.
2021 might be unpredictable, but don’t ditch your datebook. Planning can be a spiritual exercise
By Emily McFarlan Miller — January 15, 2021
(RNS) — The beginning of another pandemic year largely locked down at home, the future still uncertain, may be the perfect time to flip the page in a new planner.
Lauren Daigle responds, wants out of Sean Feucht, ‘New Years Rockin’ Eve’ controversy
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 17, 2020
(RNS) — After speaking with Daigle, Louisiana Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser has said the whole thing is a misunderstanding, according to local media reports.
In Malaysia, Lunar New Year keeps ethnic Chinese in touch with ancient customs
By Alexandra Radu — February 12, 2019
PANANG, Malaysia (RNS) — For ethnic Chinese Malaysians, Lunar New year celebrations can be both raucous street festivals and private, family affairs, a time to clean the house, pay debts and start fresh.
What’s coming for religion in 2018?
By Aysha Khan — December 21, 2017
(RNS) — We asked some of the country's top faith leaders, scholars and activists. Here are their predictions.
Japanese throng shrines to pray for profitable 2017
By RNS staff — January 4, 2017
(Reuters) Thousands packed a 1,300-year-old Shinto shrine in downtown Tokyo on the first official working day of 2017 in Japan to pray for good luck and economic success in the new year.
Cuba’s Santeria priests forecast prosperity in New Year’s prophecy
By RNS staff — January 4, 2017
(Reuters) That forecast contrasted with President Raul Castro's gloomy depiction of the economy last week.
Pope says terrorism casts bloodstain over world, condemns Istanbul attack
By Lauren Markoe — January 1, 2017
(REUTERS) Speaking in St. Peter's Square for his traditional noon address, Francis departed from his prepared text to condemn the Istanbul nightclub attack that killed at least 39 people.
Get SMART with your New Year’s resolution. Er, goal.
By Jana Riess — January 2, 2014
I'm going public with a new dream and goal: I want to write a YA novel. Here's how I'm going to break it down into steps I can actually achieve . . . and how you can help with with some swift kicks in the butt.
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